Far-left political ideologies and movements

Im Mai 1972 verhaftete der KGB den ukrainischen Psychiater Semyon Gluzman wegen "antisowjetischer Agitation und Propaganda".

For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope.

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

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Zukunft der Sozialdemokratie.

Across central and eastern Europe after World War II, the newly established communist regimes promised a drastic social revolution that would transform the world at great pace and pave the way to a socialist future.

Exploring the activities of the Chinese Communist Party''s rank and file membership base, Koss advances our understanding of authoritarian parties.

The Rise and Fall of Communist Yugoslavism: Soft Nation Building in Yugoslavia examines how the Communist Party of Yugoslavia incorporated the idea of a Yugoslav nation into its ideology and created the Yugoslav Soft Nation Building project after the Second World War.

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.

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical "e;democracies.

Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines selected works by Nono in the historical context of Italy and Germany after 1945.

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.

2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award WinnerThis book explores Britain's gradual disenchantment with both social democracy and the EEC/EU, culminating in the 2016 vote for Brexit.

Rejects the perception of Engels as perpetuator of a ''tragic deception'' of Marx, and the body of opinion treating him as ''his master''s voice''.

Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders develops a novel political economy approach by establishing a dialogue between the Social Structures of Accumulation (SSA) theory and Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism theory.

Whats it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator?

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A LitHub most anticipated book of 2025Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions.

This book is written to examine Russian public opinion, culture and society in the context of the lies, liars and untruths consistent with, but not exclusively part of, the rule of Russia's second (and fourth) post-Soviet President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political condition of modern man through an exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work.

Pakistan today stands at a critical juncture in its short history of existence.

Three provocative exposes from a National Jewish Book Award-winning journalist address the CIA's recruitment of Nazis and use of psychological warfare.

Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume.

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

Das ideologische Zentrum der katholischen Kirche lässt sich mit Papsttum und Glaubenskongregation über die Jahrhunderte hinweg eindeutig definieren.

This book investigates the Communist political phenomenon, including the origins and development of Communism as well as the revolutions that led to the rise of the major Communist states around the world.

Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labor theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity.

The Kenya Socialist exists to: Promote socialist ideas, experiences and world outlook; Increase awareness of classes, class contradictions and class struggles in Kenya, both historical and current; Expose the damage done by capitalism and imperialism in Kenya and Africa; Offer solidarity to working class, peasants and other working people and communities in their struggles for equality and justice; Promote internationalism and work in solidarity with people in Africa and around the world in their resistance to imperialism; Make explicit the politics of information and communication as tools of repression and also of resistance in Kenya.

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.

The Northern Sea Route and the Economy of the Soviet North (1956) evaluates the commercial value of the route on the basis of a detailed study of the economy of the Soviet North.

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Letters to Franca offers an extensive selection from the 500 or so extraordinary letters Louis Althusser addressed to Franca Madonia between 1961 and 1972, the most productive period in Althusser's life and the time when his most characteristic works were being elaborated and first received.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

_______________A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history but above all to China' Peter Frankopan, TLS'Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what has shaped today's China and what the Chinese Communist Party's choices mean for the rest of the world' New Statesman Books of the YearChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023_______________From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman MaoIn China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dik tter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today.

Addresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.

This set comprises works spanning Laski's career as a political thinker and the volumes re-issued here examine the questions of how government might be made more open and accountable and how the broad-based properity necessary to democracy might be assured.

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China?

Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles - one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention.

Women in Soviet Russia (1933) was the first attempt to provide a comprehensive account of the position of women in the Soviet Union.

This book explores the tradition of left wing political thinking in the culture of fans of professional football in Europe.

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

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders.

This book analyzes Marxian theories of justice within the context of contemporary political philosophy and intellectual history.

In this book, Elias J.

The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland.

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