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Cover of Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism
by Rob Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

Germany 1918-33 was one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Following the revolution in Russia, the German workers and soldiers attempted to seize power in November 1918. Unfortunately, the revolution was betrayed by the Social Democratic leaders. Further revolutionary convulsions rocked...
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Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia

The Communist and Post-Communist Eras

by Sabrina P. Ramet
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Coming at a time of enormous transformations in the one-time Communist bloc, this volume provides a much-needed perspective on the significance of church-state relations in the renaissance of civil society in the region. The essays collected here accentuate the peculiarly political character of Protestantism...
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Under Siege

The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain

by Ian Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

During the period between the two world wars, the Independent Labour Party (ILP) was the main voice of radical democratic socialism in Great Britain. Founded in 1893, the ILP had, since 1906, operated under the aegis of the Labour Party. As that party edged nearer to power following World War I, forming...
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Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares

The Cold War Origins of Political Evangelicalism

by Angela M. Lahr
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007

The Religious Right came to prominence in the early 1980s, but it was born during the early Cold War. Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham, driven by a fierce opposition to communism, led evangelicals out of the political wilderness they'd inhabited since the Scopes trial and into a much more active...
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by Fr. John Szabo
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

This book tells of the personal experiences by Father John Szabo, who spent five years in prison alongside Cardinal József Mindszenty (29 March 1892 - 6 May 1975), who was the Prince Primate, Archbishop of Esztergom, cardinal, and leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary from 2 October 1945 to 18...
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Russia

A Thorny Transition From Communism

by Alexander Lukin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

This book is based on the collection of articles centered around Russia and its policies. The articles are grouped under three parts. The first part contains articles on international relations, Russian foreign policy, and the situation in the world. The main themes they cover include Russian policy...
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New Worlds For Old (Annotated)

A Plain Account of Modern Socialism

by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. New Worlds for Old (1908), which appeared in some later editions...
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by George Plechanoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015

The anarchist desire to abolish the State at one blow, and to abolish money, etc., in much the same way, springs from their inability to understand the institutions of capitalist society. To many of them the State is simply the result of people having faith in authority. Give up this belief and the...
Cover of Canadian Labour in Politics
by Gad Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968

This important new study in Canadian politics discusses the role of socialism in Canada. By means of comparison between the English-Canadian and the American political importance of socialism in Canada than the United States. In this section Louis Hartz's theory of "fragment" cultures is...
Cover of Lithuanian Social Democracy in Perspective, 1893–1914
by Leonas Sabaliunas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Lithuanian Social Democracy in Perspective is the first book in any Western language on Lithuanian Social Democracy. In this work Leonas Sabaliunas studies the conflict between and convergence of socialism and nationalism in pre-1914 Lithuania. He analyzes the interplay of ideological priorities by...
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Koba the Dread

Laughter and the Twenty Million

by Martin Amis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through...
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Marxism: A Graphic Guide

A Graphic Guide

by Rupert Woodfin
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018

Beautiful new edition of a classic comic-book introduction to Marxist thought. Karl Marx was one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th century, inspiring revolutions and colossal political upheavals that have radically transformed the lives of millions of people and the geopolitical...
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Gulag

A History

by Anne Applebaum
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that...
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Around the Bloc

My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana

by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement—commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the “Evil Empire.” In...
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