WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize *; Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA riveting history (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russiaand beyond';A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time.
This book uses the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state's use of ideology, namely the political theodicy of development, as a governing tactic in the reform era.
This book, spanning the years 1961-1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.
The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Chantal Mouffe's classic Hegemony and Socialist Strategy.
The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist.
A partir de la confrontation fraternelle sur deux paradigmes a priori différents naît l'idée d'un "espace collectif" regroupant tous les courants de pensée révolutionnaires et dynamisant la saine confrontation des citoyens, afin d'élaborer et de mettre en oeuvre les divers projets et actions régissant tous les aspects de la vie publique et sociale.
Si fuera necesario dar una definición lo más breve posible del imperialismo, debería decirse que el imperialismo es la fase monopolista del capitalismo.
El volumen que presentamos a continuación bajo el titulo de Escritos Militares es una compilación de dos importantes trabajos en el periodo de la guerra de resistencia contra los Estados Unidos: Guerra de Liberación (1971) y Armar a las masas revolucionarias, construir el ejército popular (1972).
En marzo de 1954, los vietnamitas abrieron fuego contra el bastión del colonialismo francés de Dien Bien Phu, lanzando varias oleadas cuya última, el primero de mayo, aniquiló a un enemigo ya desmoralizado.
En este libro urgente y profundo, Noam Chomsky, uno de los grandes intelectuales de nuestra época y una poderosa voz moral a nivel mundial, junto al prestigioso economista Robert Pollin, estudioso de las causas del calentamiento global, analizan la economía política del cambio climático y su imbricación con el modelo neoliberal de producción y la globalización financiera.
Marx for the twenty-first centuryThe first new English translation in fifty yearsand the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himselfFeaturing extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown';An astounding achievement.
En este libro vibrante y profundo, el reconocido filósofo y escritor Alain Badiou sostiene que para enfrentar a Trump es necesario enfrentar el consenso generado en torno al capitalismo liberal que posibilitó su llegada al poder, y que el único camino es oponerle una opción que no puede llevar otro nombre que comunismo.
El general Vo Nguyen Giap fue uno de los más destacados jefes militares de todos los tiempos, líder comunista y comandante revolucionario de una de las mayores epopeyas de liberación del siglo XX: la resistencia armada del pueblo de Vietnam a la ocupación norteamericana que lo tuvo como actor central, en la peor derrota política y militar que hayan conocido los Estados Unidos en su historia.
James Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.
Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.
The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.
In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule.
The Maoist and Naxalite movements in the country are mostly)- rooted in the governments failure to guarantee the basic norms of a democratic state to a large section of the countrys population, particularly in rural regions and remote villages.
Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.
