Far-left political ideologies and movements

Lacan on Society is an exhaustive archeological and contingent review of Lacan's approaches to society throughout his work, seminars, and ecrits.

The Adversaries (1981) examines the post-war world that both the US and the Soviet Union tried to mould in their own images.

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as a socio-political and cultural entity.

Throughout history, groups of people disillusioned with society have tried to create utopian communities organized on new principles.

"e;My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms.

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.

The academic debate in Western social science about the growing "e;convergence"e; or similarities between American and Soviet society acquired political significance in the diverse relationships that made up the global Cold War.

Throughout history, groups of people disillusioned with society have tried to create utopian communities organized on new principles.

Stalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny!

Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary is the story of the vigorous Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after the devastations of World War I, unique in the history of twentieth-century Europe.

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

Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno, Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche, Benjamin, Castoriadis and the Situationists, who put the concept of illusion at the forefront of their philosophical thought.

First published in 1997, this volume consists of chapters placed before a series of meetings organised by the Rome-based international School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO) which reviewed the prospects relating to the countries of the Former Soviet Union and of the other members of the Warsaw Treaty Organization.

Questions of class, power and distribution have reemerged as central concerns in the public discourse.

Is Marx relevant?

It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War).

The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other.

Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship.

This book offers a systematic assessment of how International Relations scholars in mainland China and analysts at Chinese foreign policy think tanks influence the construction of China's national interest.

Across Europe and the world, far right parties have been enjoying greater electoral success than at any time since 1945.

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.

This volume traces the origins, contradictions and consequences of Marx's teaching on his followers.

The Subject of Film and Race is the first comprehensive intervention into how film critics and scholars have sought to understand cinema's relationship to racial ideology.

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b.

Rudolf Bahro: Vorlesungen 1990 – 1993 Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

Marx's Grundrisse is acknowledged as the vital link between Marx's early and late work.

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.

The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police.

*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2019**Shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Prize 2019*Why Marxism?

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes in the 1930s.

Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow's economic policies - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia.

As a sequel to Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty, this volume, originally published in 1919, expands Laski's pluralist doctrine of the state, (using France as its reference) but covers rather broader ground, since its main object is to insist that the problem of sovereignty is only a special case of the problem of authority.

First published in 1953, this seminal introduction to political philosophy is intended for both the student of political theory and for the general reader.

In 1960s Turkey, the armed forces and the radical leftist movement provided two very dynamic, but very different, political forces.

Politics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many they are few!

In Authoritarian Socialism Arthur Lipow raises important issues about the nature of democracy and defines the intellectual roots of the authoritarian side of the socialist tradition in America and distinguishes it from democratic socialism.

Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate.

The League for Social Reconstruction was formed in 1932 to provide an analysis of the capitalist system and to define the social goal toward which political action should be directed.

Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic, political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies toward the developing world.

The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.

The Political Psychology of Social Unrest in Latin America is a unique collection of research and writings by Latin American scholars.

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project.

Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D.

This book reveals Marx's moral philosophy and analyzes its nature.

Political factionalism and ideological polarization have run high in Italian history.

'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha WaliaThe Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava.