Far-left political ideologies and movements

Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually.

This book analyses faith-based development action in the Philippines by studying Catholic social movements and development studies in Southeast Asia.

This book is a thematic history of the communist movement in Kerala, the first major region (in terms of population) in the world to democratically elect a communist government.

Beschrieben werden die Auseinandersetzungen in der Kommunistischen Partei von 1922 bis 1927.

This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure.

Soviet Foreign Policy After Stalin, first published in 1962, reviews the constants and variables in the Soviet international course after Stalin.

First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader.

Turkism and the Soviets (1957) uses Turkish, Russian and Western sources to present a remarkable study of the Turkish world and its importance in international relations.

This book focuses on the intricacies of elections within Russian ethnic republics and political loyalty in these regions.

Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.

The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume.

In this book the author proposes that parties are indispensable to modern politics and that the absence of parties suggests that a system is governed by a traditional elite which has yet to come to terms with the modern world.

The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR's economy.

Originally published in 1996, Post-Marxist Marxism is a discussion of realism in a Post-Marxist context.

The Element analyses data and deep-dives into Norwegian history to show how elite fear of revolution drives welfare state expansion.

In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda.

In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience.

This volume focuses on Serbia's need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony.

Soviet Socialism (1987) is based on the author's specialized knowledge of many aspects of Soviet politics, including local government, the Communist Party and the Soviet intelligentsia.

First published in 1995, the aim of this book is to review various aspects of the process of democratic transition in Hungary over the period of its first post-communist, freely elected parliament between 1990 and 1994.

During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations.

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b.

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers.

Presented at a time when fascism was a new and little-understood phenomenon, Zetkins work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger.

Contestation and Adaptation unravels the complexities of national-identity contestation among various ethnic minority groups in China.

Democracy under neoliberalism has become tarnished, as governments become disconnected from voters and pursue policies against the interests of the people.

This new exploration of Marx as a Jewish thinker presents "e;a perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments"e; of his life and work (Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal).

This book systematically addresses Bourdieu's key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought.

Shifting from the idea that our current 'environmental question' arises from the history of metaphysics and its focus on 'Being' over 'Life'-and the attendant explorations of the thought of Heidegger and Heraclitus-this book unfolds a philosophical and sociological proposal for transitioning toward the sustainability of life.

Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society.

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*This is the history of the black radicals who organised as Communists between the two imperialist wars of the twentieth century.

The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR's economy.

In the name of an assault on "e;totalization"e; and "e;identity,"e; a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and "e;post-politics.

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle-from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing.

First published in 1990, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful competition and mutual security.

Focuses on the transformation of the Vietnamese state as it transitioned away from a centrally planned socialist regime.

The early Marx called for the "e;realization of philosophy"e; through revolution.

Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods.

Willi Munzenberg was a towering figure in the anti-fascist movement during the first half of the twentieth century.

This book, first published in 1942, examines the economic necessities, defensive and offensive, basic and strategic, involved in waging war.

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism.

A fascinating history of frontier Stalinism that sheds new light on the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s.

John Gerassi went to North Vietnam as a member of the first investigating team for the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

This book makes a theoretical contribution to animal rights issues from a Marxist perspective.

Soviet Russia (1955) discusses the origins and growth of Russian industry, in particular the emergence of a large modern working class and administrative class since the war, how the factories and farms are run, the wage systems, and the plans.

Wirtschaftskrisen, Staatsbankrotte und eine immer weiter auseinanderklaffende Armutsschere - es ist eigentlich gar keine Frage mehr, ob man sich heutzutage erneut mit Karl Marx auseinandersetzen sollte.

Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a "e;special operation"e; was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation's understanding of its history and identity.

The book traces the history of communist Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989.