Far-left political ideologies and movements

Examining the social and intellectual collision of the Americanreform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstructionera, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of theInternational Workingman's Association (IWA), the firstinternational socialist organization.

This book outlines and assesses the Marxist tradition as it developed in the twentieth century, and considers its place and standing as we move into the twenty-first century.

This book prefers a hard polemic on Baudrillard's post-modern turn, and deals in a direct and frontal debate against refutations claimed by early (young) Baudrillard to historical materialism and his deconstruction of Marxian theory of labor value.

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong Universitythe first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history.

Associational anarchism presents a ground-breaking alternative to both liberal democracy and state socialism, derived from the ideas of Karl Marx and G.

The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries.

Science Policy in the Soviet Union (1990) examines the major institutional and behavioural aspects influencing scientific research in the USSR.

Paul Crouch (1903-1955) was the quintessential anticommunist paid government informer.

Examines the evolution of Lenin's thinking on the place of the Russian peasant in theory and in the potential reality of Marxist revolution.

This book, first published in 1988, charts society's responses to the huge numbers of refugees in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Second World War.

This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944-1950.

If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to do something, you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.

Operating as a machine upon the terrain of theoretical truth procedures, philosophy's radical potential describes a militant cartography: interpretation, demarcation, clarification, and demystification.

From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost.

Eurocommunism constitutes a "e;moment"e; of great transformation connecting the past and the present of the European Left, a political project by means of which left-wing politics in Europe effected a definitive transition to a thoroughly different paradigm.

While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful socialist revolution, Marx and Engels by no means ignored developments outside this region.

The book provides new vistas on Karl Marx's political economy, philosophy and politics on the occasion of his 200th birthday.

While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West, the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy.

The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union (1974) examines the institutionalisation of sociology in the Soviet Union.

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germany's former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold War.

What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg?

These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Unrestrained by convention, lionhearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman.

This book traces the process through which Nicaraguans defeated US aggression in a highly unequal confrontation.

There is increasing awareness of growing similarities in political marketing practices around the world.

A ground-breaking analysis of how the Malayan Communist Party helped forge a Malayan national identity, while promoting Chinese nationalism.

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.

America is hurtling toward socialism.

Health Care in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1976) examines the systems of health care in the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc.

In what is the first sustained analysis of Marx's attitude to the puzzle of the individual in history and society, this book, first published in 1990, challenges received views on the importance of class analysis and the place of a theory of human nature in Marx's thought.

The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union (1986) examines the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1980, when victims of Stalin's terror were released from camps or posthumously rehabilitated.

A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart.

Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music (1970) is a thought-provoking review of Soviet music and musicians.

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

Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it.

This book elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies of communism, revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities.

Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey.

It has been said that the normal English reaction to uncomfortable facts of life, such as Marxism, is an embarrassed but determined silence.

Politics Russia provides the most comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date introduction to all aspects of the political development of Russia in the post-communist era.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt und Charakter der Arbeit im Sozialismus" verfügbar.

Grenada experienced much turmoil in the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in an armed Marxist revolution, a bloody military coup, and finally in 1983 Operation Urgent Fury, a United States-led invasion.

Managing the Monstrous Feminine takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des antifaschistischen Exils (1941–1946)" verfügbar.

The Middle East seems to be in perpetual crisis.

What do Germany's memorials, films, artworks, memory debates and national commemorations tell us about the lives of Germans today?

This book, first published in 1999, compares the strategies of France and Japan in trying to win economic and political influence in the newly emerging Vietnam, which opened to the international community only after the Vietnamese Communist Party had started economic reforms in 1986.