Far-left political ideologies and movements

A "e;lively"e; memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times).

Fast's book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Fast's fascinating biography of Joseph Broz, known to the world as Tito, including his rise to power and his remarkable stand against fascismThe world was mired in the Second World War when Howard Fast wrote The Incredible Tito.

SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERDear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime.

Do we need a Monarchy?

Between 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius.

Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.

Originally published in 1929, this early work by Alexander Berkman is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.

Originally published in the 1930s, this book contains a comprehensive study of the social philosophy of Gerrard Winstanley, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject.

Originally published in the 1930s this is a fascinating examination, using documents and eye-witness accounts, of the famous Paris Commune.

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976.

History always comes down to the details.

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time.

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.

Open this book and you will: - learn about Marx's life - know his key works - deal with dialectic - assess his influence

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious.

[Teach Yourself] Marx - the Key Ideas will quickly familiarize you with the revolutionary thinking of this great man.

In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism.

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.

The monolithic nature of the communist movement during the Stalinist period overlay pluralist tendencies.

Influenced by Kojève's interpretation of Hegel as well as his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abandoned the religious and philosophical position he had assumed in the 1930s and turned to Marxism.

p>Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished.

Over the last few decades, critical theory which examines issues of race and racism has flourished.

New Economic Democracy establishes a self-governing civil society, unifying the private sphere of production and the public sphere of citizenship within a non-statist scheme of communal ownership.

Why has the European Left become so antagonistic towards Israel?

Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches.

Why has the European Left become so antagonistic towards Israel?

Marx's influence is evident in a range of often incompatible and contradictory political movements and intellectual approaches.

This book looks at the role nostalgia plays in the radical imagination to offer a new guide to the history and politics of the left.

This comparative survey of the secularization policies of the Soviet Union and China looks at the suppression, survival, and revival of religion in both countries.

This compelling, critical analysis of anti-communism illustrates the variety of anti-Communist styles and agendas, thereby making a persuasive case that the "e;threat"e; of domestic communism in Cold War America was vastly overblown.

Im April 1968, zwei Jahre bevor sich die Rote Armee Fraktion gründet, wird Andreas Baader in Frankfurt festgenommen und zusammen mit Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll und Horst Söhnlein wegen eines nächtlichen Brandanschlags in zwei Kaufhäusern in Untersuchungshaft verbracht.

Gudrun Ensslin – Pastorentochter, Studienstiftlerin, Terroristin: Was sagen diese Schlagworte über die Person?

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The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

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;.

This book explores the various ways in which socialists have understood the relationship between their political beliefs and different religious and philosophical traditions.

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river.

For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived.

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.

Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory.

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.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

Marx's Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx's Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic.