Far-left political ideologies and movements

Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and the Soviet Union.

This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.

An innovative and important study of Marx''s early writings.

It is widely acknowledged that Karl Marx was one of the most original and influential thinkers of modern times.

This book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the 'Gang of Four'.

Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, cussedly independent.

This volume describes the way in which the Fabian Society works, the distinctive contributions of individuals to that work, the structure they have built and the methods they have evolved to facilitate their labours.

The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

In 1917 revolutionary fervour swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and instigating political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union.

Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities and vicissitudes of its political culture.

In his farewell address, Dwight D.

An eyewitness account of the world-changing uprising—from the author of Memoirs of a Revolutionary.

'Standard' employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Geschichte der Sozialpolitik der DDR" verfügbar.

By linking building theory to the emancipatory project of critique advanced by radical thinkers in our time, this work investigates the key conceptual and historical elements that culminate in an emancipatory theory of building entitled: 'Toward a philosophy of shelter'.

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

The Global Revolution.

This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China.

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

The Bolsheviks Come to Power is one of the most important histories of the Russian Revolution to challenge the mainstream narratives.

From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens.

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.

Reclaiming Constitutionalism articulates an argument for why the constitutional phenomenon remains attached to the state despite the recent advent of theories of global constitutionalism.

If we are serious about finding a different way to run the post-credit crunch society, we must start by introducing alternatives to undergraduates.

The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle.

The book presents an analysis of the concept of rights and provides an illuminating expression of socialist ideals.

Consumption forms a major part of people's lives.

Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "e;first line of defense"e; against Communism.

Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalised by Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra.

This book introduces new approaches that deploy concepts from Marx's critique of political economy to renew the study of labour, value and social antagonisms in the broad area of management and organisation studies.

This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev.

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

Over the course of the American Occupation of Japan, the U.

We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives.

The 2010s were a decade of foodbanks, riots, and the rebirth of political alternatives.

Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the successful appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School.

The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world.

This book, first published in 1977, attempts to show Mao Tse-tung in his relationship with the Chinese people.

Although Marx's concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved to be rather disappointing.

Balkan Legacies is a study of the aftermath of war and state socialism in the contemporary Balkans.

As the centres of world capitalism struggle to overcome long-term stagnation and existential crisis, this book aims to recover the legacy of revolutions against capitalism and imperialism.

Communist Propaganda at School is based on an analysis of reading primers from the Soviet bloc and recreates the world as presented to the youngest schoolchildren who started their education between 1949 and 1989 across the nine Eastern European countries.

Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory.

As part of its effort to expose Communist infiltration in the United States and eliminate Communist influence on movies, from 1947-1953 the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed hundreds of movie industry employees suspected of membership in the Communist Party.

The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978.

In this book, first published in 1992, the author examines the polemic fought by German Social-Democratic Party leaders and intellectuals Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein against what they perceived to be misunderstandings of Marxism propagated by members of the Social-Democratic Federation (SDF) in England and by the socialist leader Wilhelm Liebknecht in Germany.

Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism.