A riveting chronicle of Communist Party efforts to propagate Communism in the United States, concurrent with Hollywood's "e;Golden Age"e; of creativity that came to define classical Hollywood cinema.
This vital new collection presents new Marxist-Feminist analyses of Capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes and is shaped by specific nature-labour relationships.
Die vielbändigen Werkausgaben, in denen die Schriften von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels bisher publiziert wurden, belegen die beispiellose Produktivität der Begründer des Historischen Materialismus.
Oriented for a general reading audience, this book gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB "e;special operations"e; in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin's death in 1953 until the perestroika of the 1980s.
In this book, first published in 1940, Leonard Woolf lays out the necessity for the establishment of a system providing for the rule of international law and cooperation, control of international power and collective defence against international aggression.
This volume takes up the idea of 'multiplicity' as a new common ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems, cosmology and the history of political ideas.
This book evaluates the promise of human progress and secularism in grand political narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, comparing counter-narratives of South Asia within the context of a fast-changing twenty-first century.
Building upon the idea that our current "e;environmental question"e; arises from the history of metaphysics-which privileged thought about Being (or ontology) over the conditions of life-this book reinterprets Heraclitus's notion of physis as the fundamental, emergent potency of life, as the category to-be-thought by thinkers.
Der stalinsche Terror Ende der dreißiger Jahre übersteigt, wie auch der Holocaust, in seinen Ausmaßen und Gräueln das menschliche Vorstellungsvermögen.
This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist revolution began as an ideology-oriented intellectual movement aimed at improving society before China's transformation into a state that suppresses dissenting voices by outsourcing its power of coercion and incarceration.
Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union (1984) presents articles by established Soviet anthropologists, writing on kinship and marriage in the countries of the USSR.
The purpose of this book, first published in 1982, is to analyse certain crucial aspects of the great power triangle in order to establish a more complete picture of the role of China in the superpower balance.
Perhaps the most disturbing feature of globalization is the emergence of a new tribalism, an attitude expressed in the common phrase, "e;thank God we're not like them.
Establishing a rigorous program of "e;symptomatic reading"e; that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx's structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break-the basis of a completely new science.
In this major study, first published in 1988, Professor Kitching builds on recent scholarship on Marx and Wittgenstein to provide an incisive, readable account and critique of the whole of Marx's work.
From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways.
Althusser abre su corazón (y su cabeza) en esta autoentrevista, inédita durante cuarenta años, donde aborda las condiciones de posibilidad de una política realmente de izquierdas.
This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe.
The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle.
The nearly forgotten story of Soviet dissidentsIt has been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union enough time for the role that the courageous dissidents ultimately contributed to the communist system's collapse to have been largely forgotten, especially in the West.
The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology collects and contextualizes Pego's 118 literary chronicles published between 1940 and 1967 in the periodical Espana Libre, New York.
This book, first published in 1984, examines the 1941 siege of Tobruk and the experiences of the inexperienced Australian troops facing Rommel's successful armies.
The Soviet Union and the communist ideology on which it was founded were central to a great number of people's lives and pivotal to international relations for decades, most clearly in giving rise to the Cold War.
The essays and letters of Ervin Szabo (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century.
Nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion 1991 durch die stalinistische Bürokratie sind trotz zahlreicher historischer Detailstudien weder der Charakter der Oktoberrevolution noch die Degeneration und das Scheitern des aus ihr hervorgegangenen Arbeiterstaates einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit klar, obwohl die Existenz der Sowjetunion die gesamte Geschichte des 20.
First published in 1988, this books argues with received accounts to reclaim Brecht's emphasis on his self-described 'dialectical theatre', re-examining firstly the concepts of Gestus and Verfremdung and their realisation in Brecht's poetry in terms of his attempt to consciously apply the methods of dialectical materialism to art and cultural practice.
With the opening of Russian and communist-bloc archives dating from the Soviet-era, there has been a significant increase of scholarly writings pertaining to Joseph Stalin.
Handbook of Soviet Space-Science Research (1968) provides a comprehensive and authoritative English language summary of Soviet space-science research of the 1960s.
This book, first published in 1986, presents a radical challenge to socialist orthodoxy, subjecting a key component of that orthodoxy - Marxism - to sustained criticism.
When this book was published for the first time in 1962, Shri Jaiprakash Narayan wrote in the introduction that this book, written on such an important subject as socialism by a business tycoon, should be welcomed.
A behind-the-scenes look at how the United States aided the Velvet RevolutionDemocracy's Defenders offers a behind-the-scenes account of the little-known role played by the U.
This book applies a novel theory of 'unbalanced responsiveness' to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship between authoritarian regimes and their citizens.
This book, first published in 1987, examines the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnam war.
Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.
