Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
No Logo
No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide.
In the last decade, No Logo has become an...
Le maccarthysme ou la peur Rouge
La croisade américaine contre le communisme
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le maccarthysme en moins d’une heure !Le 9 février 1950, Joseph McCarthy annonce lors du Lincoln Day qu’il existe au sein même du Gouvernement américain des communistes qui influenceraient la politique du pays. Si l’on se méfiait déjà du communisme...
by Svetlana Boym
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities--St....
El macartismo o el Temor Rojo
La cruzada estadounidense contra el comunismo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el macartismo o el Temor Rojo, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Analizar el contexto histórico del macartismo, enmarcado en plena Guerra Fría, así como...
The Polk Conspiracy
Murder and Cover-Up in the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
In war-torn Greece, the murder of a young American reporter sent a shock through the West and set the stage for the four-decade Cold War; now with a new introduction by the author
Greece in 1948 was a country reeling from two major conflicts. The Nazi occupation and World War II had left it...
Science of Coercion
Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the author
Since the mid-twentieth...
Lenin and Imperialism
An Appraisal of Theories and Contemporary Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
There are two distinct levels at which Lenin theorised about imperial-ism. At one level he outlined certain tendencies in the phase of monopoly capital which generated situations of actual or potential armed conflict and made for global instability of the international capitalist state system. At another...
by Michael Crick
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
When it was originally published in 1984, Michael Crick’s treatise on the Militant tendency was widely acclaimed as a masterly work of investigative journalism, and although the rise of Jeremy Corbyn can be attributed more to the phenomenon of ‘Corbynmania’ than to hard-left entrism, to some...
Hammer of the Left
The Battle For the Soul of the Labour Party
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
“We went into the general election with an unelectable leader, in a state of chaos with a manifesto that might have swept us to victory in cloud cuckoo land, but which was held in contempt in the Britain of 1983.” It is said that those who do not learn from past mistakes are doomed to repeat them,...
Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung
Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This study focuses on a single Korean "chaebol", the business conglomerate which dominates the Korean economy. Hyundai, the largest chaebol, is examined in the context of Korean history, ancient and modern, and the Confucian value system that permeates all Korean life.
The State We Need
Keys to the Renaissance of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
At a time when great issues are crying out for resolution - financial and economic stagnation, an increasingly polarised society, global paralysis over climate change, and spiritual emptiness and loss of vision throughout the West - politics is dominated by spin and manipulation. Too many people feel...
The Comparative Approach to National Movements
Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Miroslav Hroch’s Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this...
Why Vote Conservative 2015
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The Conservative Party wants to win the 2015 general election with an outright majority. But what should be the party's purpose in government? In this unique guide, Conservative MP Nick Herbert explores the values that have ensured the party's success for the better part of the last hundred years,...
by Eric Hobsbawm
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011