Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Is the East Still Red?
Socialism and the Market in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Does China represent a non-capitalist alternative to neoliberal development models? Commentators on the left have offered sharply divergent assessments over the last two decades. A few still cling the old dream of market socialism, twinning efficiency with social justice. For most, however, China is...
Intellectuals and the Communist Idea
The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Intellectuals and the Communist Idea describes how the Communist ideology penetrated into Czech culture and politics from the dawn of the twentieth century into the late 1930s, just before the outbreak of WW II in Europe. Based mainly upon the research of contemporary primary sources, the analysis...
by Tom Bottomore
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
First published in 1985, Theories of Modern Capitalism provides a succinct study of Marxist and non-Marxist theories of Capitalism, its recent development, and the prospects of a transition to socialism.
The study begins with a critical examination and comparison of four major theories of capitalism,...
by Tareq Y. Ismael
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2004
This book examines the communist movement in the Arab world from the time of the Russian revolution until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It traces the interaction of the world communist movement which was characterized by an uncritical acceptance of Marxism-Leninism, and local communists,...
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
With this now-classic work, Lenin (Rus. Ленин, Владимир Ильич) aimed to encapsulate the lessons the Bolshevik Party had learned from its involvement in three revolutions in 12 years--in a manner that European Communists could relate to, for it was to them he was speaking. He also...
Socialism
An Analysis of Its Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"In this book Prof Balcerowicz brings together 17 academic articles that summarise his research on the process of radical economic transformation... It is an impressive volume which makes a convincing case for the post-communist transition to be as rapid as possible." - Financial Times Balcerowicz...
On Hitler's Mein Kampf
The Poetics of National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.
Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian...
Our Supreme Task
How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves in the grip of the Soviets. The Red Army occupied a large German territory, and the Kremlin was manipulating...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book, first published in 1980, provides both a broad review and detailed analysis of the major issues that had been affecting the changing relations between Moscow and the other European Communist parties. In discussing the Spanish, Italian, French and Scandinavian communist parties the individual...
by Robert Bideleux
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted ‘Stalinist’ strategies of forced industrialisation...
Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012
Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts by Tomas Kavaliauskas, is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. Using a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural,...
Latin America's Turbulent Transitions
The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Why has this profound shift...
Latin America's Radical Left
Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping...
The Fate of the Russian Revolution
Lost Texts of Critical Marxism vol.1
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
This book opens with a quotation from Albert Einstein, stating the case for socialism. Einstein, like almost every great mind of the 20th century who concerned himself or herself with the welfare of the working people, wanted common ownership and a democratic planned economy. But Einstein was stumped...