Far-left political ideologies and movements

We have entered the gateway to the apocalypse.

Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic.

Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism.

The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism.

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism.

';Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire' (Booklist, starred review) in this ';thoroughly engrossing' (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution.

From the author of the 'great' (Dolly Alderton), 'terrific' (Zadie Smith) The New Me, comes a subversive, hilarious portrait of two colleagues, each more like the other than they would care to admit.

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 TelegraphFor over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a pillar of Havana's expat community, one of many foreign businessmen investing in Cuba's crawl from Cold War communism towards modernity.

Is this the right book for me?

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit meets Goodbye Lenin.

'A piercingly evocative East-West love story' The TimesThis is a story of East and West.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARDDavid Aaronovitch grew up in Communist Great Britain a Britain hidden from view for most, but for those on the inside it was a life filled with picket lines, militant trade unions, solidarity rallies for foreign Communists, the Red Army Choir, copies of the Daily Worker, all underpinned by a quiet love of the Soviet Union.

There was life before the fall.

The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history.

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.

Dieses eBook: "Zur russischen Revolution" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

From the million-copySunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story.

SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERDear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime.

Do we need a Monarchy?

Between 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius.

Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.

'A modern classic' - The Sunday Times'This story starts roughly in the 1970s, a few years after I was born, about the time when I began to have memories and my father's codename was already long established as "e;Andronic"e;, a name we learned about only last summer .

History always comes down to the details.

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time.

Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and the Soviet Union.

Open this book and you will: - learn about Marx's life - know his key works - deal with dialectic - assess his influence

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious.

[Teach Yourself] Marx - the Key Ideas will quickly familiarize you with the revolutionary thinking of this great man.

In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism.

Im April 1968, zwei Jahre bevor sich die Rote Armee Fraktion gründet, wird Andreas Baader in Frankfurt festgenommen und zusammen mit Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll und Horst Söhnlein wegen eines nächtlichen Brandanschlags in zwei Kaufhäusern in Untersuchungshaft verbracht.

Gudrun Ensslin – Pastorentochter, Studienstiftlerin, Terroristin: Was sagen diese Schlagworte über die Person?

Winner of the 2010 W.

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

One of the most enduring dreams is of a Utopian society in which all possessions are held in common ownership, and there is never a quarrel over "e;mine"e; and "e;thine"e;.

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river.

For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived.

Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory.

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic.

The first book to trace the evolution of Russian politics from the Bolsheviks to PutinWhen the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end.

Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "e;direct, deliberate, and powerful"e; influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker.

A compelling look at the origins of British socialismThe Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy.

A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable?

FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours.

Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association.

Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association.