Far-left political ideologies and movements

Of all the scholarly work on the countryside done in pre-1917 Russia and in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, that of L.

This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR.

The child of a small coup rather than an extension of popular will, the Soviet State was intrinsically insecure, its leaders ever fearful of internal and external threats.

For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge.

In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts.

The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters.

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;.

An ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the ''revolutionary'' People''s Republic of China and ''conservative'' Taiwan in the early 1950s.

This book, first published in 1938, is based upon the Muirhead lectures on political philosophy delivered in the University of Birmingham in January and February of 1938.

"e;War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War"e; is a 1917 treatise written H.

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory.

This book, first published in 1977, presents for the first time a serious and systematic assessment of Marx primarily as a philosopher.

What role does the protection of citizens abroad play in motivating states' policies?

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Describes the post-communist trajectory of the states of Central and Southeastern Europe, encompassing democratization, privatization, corruption, and war.

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators.

Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory.

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past.

Der Mann, der Lenin wurde – Victor Sebestyens große Biographie zum RevolutionsjahrVictor Sebestyen wirft in dieser Biographie einen neuen Blick auf Lenin: Ausführlich erzählt er vom Menschen Wladimir Uljanow, schildert sein Leben mit Freunden und Frauen, seine persönlichen Überzeugungen – und stellt diese dann gegen den Politiker und dessen Handlungen.

Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx's critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital.

This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left.

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age .

Richard Overy zeichnet ein umfassendes, neues Bild des Zweiten Weltkriegs – als das letzte Aufbäumen des Imperialismus.

Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict.

This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work.

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Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953.

Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism provides rich new insights into the history of political thought and clinical knowledge.

This book, first published in 1946, collects documents illustrating the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union.

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.

This book presents an analysis of the cultural memory of women's participation in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle (1941-1945), with a particular focus on the figure of the female soldier.

KONRAD FARNER (1903-1974), aus einer alten und gut situierten Zürcher Familie stammend, zählt zu den BEDEUTENDEN SCHWEIZER DENKERN.

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.

Die Kirchen bewahren seit Jahrhunderten das Gedächtnis an ihre Märtyrerinnen und Märtyrer.

Communism was destroyed not from without, but from withinby a persistent failure to make its economic theories work in practice.

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people.

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance.

Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "e;Amherst School"e; of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions.

First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov's book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and the Russian revolution of October 1917.

Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Marxismus, Religion, Gegenwart" verfügbar.

In this sharply polemical account, Leon Trotsky draws up a balance sheet of the world's first successful workers' revolution.

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries.

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.

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought.

Why does 1968 matter today?