Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
by Axel Kaehne
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era. The book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and theoretical attempts by Russian scholars and political thinkers to make sense of the challenges of post-communism and the trials of...
In Place of Fear II
A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Jim Sillars argues convincingly that the referendum gives the Scottish people the power to create a better country, helps renew our belief in socialism as the answer to the economic and social crisis facing the country, and challenges the idea in the Yes campaign that independence means “change...
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
1843 to Capital
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A clear and compact guide to Marx’s road to Das Kapital
Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx’s economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of crystalline chapters, he provides an overview of subjects central to...
Gendering Radicalism
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying...
Cold War in a Cold Land
Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism,...
by Stephen Mann
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Stephen Mann was in the British Royal Navy for five years and ninety three days, which is five years and ninety two days longer than he had wanted to be.The day he joined the Navy he didn’t know it but he was to become a reluctant sailor. It was the day after he signed up that the penny dropped...
Bernie Sanders and the Boundaries of Reform
Socialism in Burlington
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But back in the 1980s, this “democratic socialist”—though some folks would prefer the term “social democrat”—was mayor of Burlington, Vermont,...
by Daniel J. Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
From Communes to the Clintons
Why does Hillary Clinton crusade for government-provided health care for every American, for the redistribution of wealth, and for child rearing to become a collective obligation? Why does Al Gore say that it’s okay to “over-represent” the dangers of global...
A Good American Family
The Red Scare and My Father
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
In a riveting book with powerful resonance today, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the pervasive fear and paranoia that gripped America during the Red Scare of the 1950s through the chilling yet affirming story of his family’s ordeal, from blacklisting to vindication.
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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....
Deng Xiaoping
A Revolutionary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms....
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The basic texts of Marxist socialism. Preface gives an easy-to-understand introduction to Marxist philosophy.