Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
by Jodi Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In this new title in Verso’s Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of theSoviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of internationalbanking has alerted exploited populations the world over to theunsustainability of an economic system predicated on...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla Warfare gives the reader a chance to learn about this type of warfare from one who lived and fought as a guerrilla for most of his adult life. It is important to understand his philosophy of guerrilla warfare because it...
by Alexander Weissberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
First published in 1951, this is both a personal narrative and forensic analysis of the methods employed by Stalin and the G.P.U. during the Great Purge from the middle of 1936 to the end of 1938.
It is the exploration of the systematic imprisonment, interrogation and extraction of false confessions...
by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Originally published in 1848 as a political pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would become one of the most influential works of the era. Written as a summary of the authors’ political thought, the Manifesto is also a reflection of the unrest and the revolutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across...
Urbane Revolutionary
C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society, Frank Rosengarten traces the intellectual and political development of C.L.R. James (1901-1989), one of the most significant Caribbean intellectuals of the twentieth century. In his political and philosophical commentary, his...
The Essential Marcuse
Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their...
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...
The Red Fog
A Memoir of Life in the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
As a teenager during World War II, author Lilija "Lita" Zarina's idyllic life of perfumed soaps, shelves full of books, and carefree parties explodes into irretrievable pieces after a Soviet bomb strikes her family's property in Latvia. The Russian army demands the surrender of passports,...
Close But No Cigar
A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017
'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily Telegraph
For over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a pillar of Havana's expat...
Absolute Recoil
Towards A New Foundation Of Dialectical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism to Deleuzian New Materialism – has failed to meet the key theoretical and political challenges of the modern world. This is the burden of philosopher Slavoj iek’s argument in this pathbreaking and eclectic new work....
A Pact with Vichy
Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Angelo Tasca, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian political history, and indeed European history, is frequently overshadowed by his Fascist opponent Mussolini or his Socialist and Communist colleagues (Gramsci and Togliatti). Yet, as Emanuel Rota reveals in this captivating biography, Tasca—also...
THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF BAKUNIN
Scientific Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF BAKUNIN. Scientific Anarchism. Compiled and Edited by G. P Maximoff. Mikhail Bakunin is one of the key anarchist thinkers and revolutionary activists of the 19th century. Building upon the federalist and libertarian socialist ideas of his friend Pierre-Joseph Proudhon as...
Crisis and Commonwealth
Marcuse, Marx, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection,...