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.
The series, Mao's Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong's writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on his life and thought as well as on developments in China during the pre-1949 period.
The series, Mao's Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong's writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on his life and thought as well as developments in China during the pre-1949 period.
The series, Mao's Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong's writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on his life and thought as well as on developments in China during the pre-1949 period.
The series, Mao's Road to Power, consisting of translations of Mao Zedong's writings from 1912 to 1949, provides abundant documentation in his own words on his life and thought as well as developments in China during the pre-1949 period.
Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.
Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.
WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2019The political violence that erupted towards the end of the twentieth century between the Peruvian state and militant group `Shining Path' left an indelible mark on the country that resonates even today.
The present collection contains papers of the first national workshop organised by the All India Progressive Forum (AIPF) on '21st Century Socialism' in Hyderabad.
After decades of misinformation during the Soviet period, we can today, with historical hindsight and a better grasp of old and new sources, appraise what Lenins government meant for Russia and the world.
From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well.
El comunismo, uno de los movimientos político-ideológicos cruciales del siglo xx, dotó de una identidad y una cultura política a millones de hombres y mujeres alrededor del mundo; no solo a trabajadores y campesinos, sino también a amplios sectores de las capas medias, profesionales, artistas, escritores y científicos.
In this book the experiential history of the Soviet-style social transformation projects between 1945 and 1980 is discussed through the example of rural Hungary.
In this book the experiential history of the Soviet-style social transformation projects between 1945 and 1980 is discussed through the example of rural Hungary.
2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner Silver Medal, World HistoryNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime.
China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji.
Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez Fras has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regimean outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support.
This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russias provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.
First published in 1988, The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe states that since de-Stalinisation began in Eastern Europe, the 'dead hand' of institutional Marxism has been eroded by revisionist Marxism, with the turn to young Marx and the philosophy of human emancipation to undermine prevailing orthodoxies.
This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russias provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.
An encyclopedic guide to 20th-century communism around the worldThe first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this indispensable reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century.
Este libro pretende recorrer, de forma orgánica, la evolución del pensamiento filosófico y político de Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989), uno de los pensadores italianos más destacados de la posguerra.
Este libro pretende recorrer, de forma orgánica, la evolución del pensamiento filosófico y político de Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989), uno de los pensadores italianos más destacados de la posguerra.
New Economic Democracy establishes a self-governing civil society, unifying the private sphere of production and the public sphere of citizenship within a non-statist scheme of communal ownership.
When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as "e;a work of fundamental importance,"e; but declared "e;its unusual form"e; and "e;obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers.
Este libro responde a la pregunta -para muchos saldada- de qué es la política con la hipótesis de que la política es una manera de producir sentido o, mejor aún, es una forma de elaborar nuestro contacto con la realidad.
