Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Orwell and Marxism
The Political and Cultural Thinking of George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, cussedly independent.
Best known today as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen...
by Alejandro Roque Glez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Aquí te entregamos este libro de 36 artículos ‘Cuba y el mundo. Artículos políticos’, en español e inglés, compilados durante los años 2009 al 2016. En ellos se reflejan y analizan puntos de vista del autor en referencia a su país natal y hechos que transcurren progresivamente en nuestro...
Reagan's War
The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Reagan’s War is the story of Ronald Reagan’s personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role in the demise of the Soviet Union, Peter...
A Pope and a President
John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A Singular Bond That Changed History
Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders.
Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author...
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists
The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering...
The Screen Is Red
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the 1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both threatened to undermine the capitalist system, the movie industry's foundational core value. Hollywood portrayed...
The Taste of Ashes
The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives.
In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding...
Socialism Is Great!
A Worker's Memoir of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like...
Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
The Walls Came Tumbling Down : The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
The rapid and unexpected collapse of the Communist systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe continues to mystify scholars and citizens alike. The recent flood of books on this topic (many of them excellent) poses special problems for librarians who will need to choose carefully not only as to...
Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience
Studies of Communism and Radicalism in an Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience offers a fresh look at Communism, both the bad and good, and also touches on anarchism, Christian theory, conservatism, liberalism, Marxism, and more, to argue for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and V.I. Lenin as democratic revolutionaries. It examines...
Ecology and Socialism
Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the crisis requires far deeper adjustments. Ecology and Socialism argues that...
by Friedrich Engels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 August 5, 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal...
Communism
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.
With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death...