Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
Socialism . . . Seriously
A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
A recent Pew research reports says that 43 % of 18-29 year-olds and 33% of or 30-49 year-olds react positively to the word "socialism."
The 2008 economic crisis has caused many Americans to seek an alternative to to capitalism.
Many introductions to socialism are dry and bland. Danny's...
This Misery of Boots
Socialism Means Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"This Misery of Boots" is a non-fiction essay originally written by H. G. Wells in 1905. The book is a condemnation of economic practices of the time and an impassioned plea in support of Socialism. Table of contents: Chapter I. The World As Boots And Superstructure Chapter II. People Whose...
by Dumitru Sandru
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Life under communism is cruel and inhumane. Commit the smallest political infraction, and the secret police will arrest you. The only ray of hope is the West, but getting out from communism is difficult. Communist countries have a “Berlin Wall” around them. It is a crime to escape by crossing...
Socialism and Social Science (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Writings of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The essays and letters of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century. His ideals of an engaged social science and an enlightened socialism, his preoccupation with the socialist future,...
Democracy, Plan, and Market
Yakov Kronrod's Political Economy of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of the Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed the theoretical section of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of the USSR in the 1970s...
Outlines of Some Cultural Aspects of U.S. Imperialism
The Struggle for Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In Part I, this booklet traces the post-Independence struggles in the United States for the realization of the ideals of the early Enlightenment thinkers, with particular emphasis on the practical struggles of the working class. The mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth centuries origin and fates of...
by August Bebel, Meta L. Stern (Hebe)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
In 1879, Bebel published Die Frau und der Sozialismus [Women under Socialism]. The book's publication defied Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Law, which had been passed the previous year. It was officially banned in a decree issued on March 24, 1879. Circulated through the SPD's underground network of agents,...
Spanish Marxism versus Soviet Communism
A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism is the first historical study of the P.O.U.M. to appear in English. Drawing from his multi-volume work on the subject, which was published in Spanish and Catalan, Victor Alba has collaborated with Stephen Schwartz to produce a condensed and amplified study that...
Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism
Regime Survival in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, many scholars have sought to explain the collapse of communism. Yet, more than two decades on, communist regimes continue to rule in a diverse set of countries including China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam. In a unique study of fourteen countries, Steven Saxonberg...
by Lauren Burnhill
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
In 1985, I received a grant from the Ford Foundation and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Cuban Studies Program to spend two months in Havana researching the last vestiges of private sector agriculture. The summer of 1985 was when the US launched Radio Marti, a Voice of...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”
Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of sober political analysis; rather it can be summed up as a rhapsodic manifesto...
Quest for Political Power
Communist Subversion and Militancy in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worldwide, best epitomized in Europe by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Operating through the Malayan Communist Party, communism posed an existential threat to Malaya. While the communist...
Bucharest Diary
Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An insider's account of Romania's emergence from communism control
In the 1970s American attorney Alfred H. Moses was approached on the streets of Bucharest by young Jews seeking help to emigrate to Israel. This became the author's mission until the communist regime fell in 1989. Before that...
by Chun Lin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In this significant contribution to both political theory and China studies, Lin Chun provides a critical assessment of the scope and limits of socialist experiments in China, analyzing their development since the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 and reflecting on the country’s...