Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
In the Name of Social Democracy
The Great Transformation, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siècle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second International hold office throughout the European Union, while the Right appears widely disorientated by the dramatic “modernisation”...
May Made Me
An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
On the fiftieth annniversary of May '68 we have two readerships to engage: those who know about or remember the events and will be delighted by a new take on a fascinating period of modern history. And then we have the uninitiated who, raised on campus politics or Occupy, will find wise tales of far wilder times told in an approachable format.
by Michael Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
To counter the Soviet threat and that of their client States during the Cold War years 1949-1991, the American military deployed an impressive range of main battle tanks (MBTs) and armored fighting vehicles (AFVs).
The Patton series of medium MBTs (including the M46, M47 and M48) supplemented...
Cold War Command
The Dramatic Story of a Nuclear Submariner
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The part played in the Cold War by the Royal Navy's submarines still retains a great degree of mystery and, in the traditions of the 'Silent Service,' remains largely shrouded in secrecy. Cold War Command brings us as close as is possible to the realities of commanding nuclear hunter-killer submarines,...
Transplanting Commercial Law Reform
Developing a 'Rule of Law' in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia, this volume examines the prospects for transplanting a 'rule of law' that will attract and sustain international trade and investment in this economically dynamic region. The book develops both a general model that explains...
Marxist Theories of Imperialism
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
For Marxists, imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. Critical analysis of imperialism has been a feature of Marxist throughout the twentieth century. The conceptualising and theorising of imperialism by Marxists has evolved over time in response to developments in the global capitalist economy...
Before the Nation
Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination ofthe late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of...
Subversive Lives
A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters...
The Dictator's Dilemma
The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Their prediction, however, never proved true. Despite minor setbacks, China has experienced explosive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of leadership, has revitalised itself, and created...
The Russian Revolution
A View from the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy
In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the...
Scorched Earth
Stalin's Reign of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
German scholar Jörg Baberowski is one of the world’s leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian...
Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality
A Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Tracking the development of Foucault's key concepts
Lemke offers the most comprehensive and systematic account of Michel Foucault's work on power and government from 1970 until his death in 1984. He convincingly argues, using material that has only partly been translated into English, that...
Alles voor het moederland
de Stalinterreur ten tijde van Isaak Babel en Vasili Grossman
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Aan de hand van de bewogen levens van de grote Russisch-Joodse schrijvers Isaak Babel en Vasili Grossman schetst Michel Krielaars in ‘Alles voor het moederland’ een beeld van een meedogenloze wereld, waarin het vermoorden van onschuldige burgers een gewone zaak was en het individu kapot werd gemaakt....