Communism category: 1567 books
by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
In The Lion and the Unicorn George Orwell expressing his opinions on the situation in wartime Britain. It expressed his opinion that the outdated British class system was hampering the war effort, and that in order to defeat Nazi Germany, Britain needed a social patriotic revolution in contrast to...
A Covert Life
Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
The extraordinary life of Jay Lovestone is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. A Lithuanian immigrant who came to the United States in 1897, Lovestone rose to leadership in the Communist Party of America, only to fall out with Moscow and join the anti-Communist establishment...
Stalin's Curse
Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and...
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader’s personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution....
Armageddon Averted : Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United...
Heaven on Earth
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man” inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy,...
Stop, Thief!
The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In bold and intelligently written essays, historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. From Thomas Paine to the Luddites and from Karl Marx—who concluded his great...
Russians
The People behind the Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories to portray the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today.
RUSSIANS explores the seeming paradoxes of life in Russia by unraveling...
Hollywood Traitors
Blacklisted Screenwriters - Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
“This is the book we’ve been waiting for! The true story of the much mythologized ‘Hollywood Ten’ by a scion of Hollywood royalty.” — Ann Coulter, author of twelve New York Times bestsellers, including Adios America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hell-Hole
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The Communist Manifesto
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage...
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich...
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism. It was published in 1848 under the title Manifesto of the Communist Party, and in it, Marx and Engels discuss the basic communist theories on society, economics,...
The Communist Manifesto
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich...