Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution.
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily TelegraphFor over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a pillar of Havana's expat community, one of many foreign businessmen investing in Cuba's crawl from Cold War communism towards modernity.
The haunting history of the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015- A new translation based on the updated text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides.
WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of China'Wonderful' Andrew Marr, New StatesmanSince the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism.
""El método de la economía política", apenas un puñado de páginas contenidas en la famosa Einleitung [introducción] de 1857, es quizá el fragmento de la obra marxiana más controvertido.
Der Prager Frühling 1968: Aufstand der demokratischen Kräfte gegen ein autoritäres Gewaltsystem und ein Laboratorium für neue Gesellschaftsentwürfe, das in der kollektiven Erinnerung Europas bis heute fortwirkt.
"Pocas obras pueden presumir con tanta autoridad de haber determinado el curso de la historia como el Manifiesto comunista de Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) und Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) waren bedeutende Philosophen und Ökonome, Historiker und Gesellschaftstheoretiker, welche die Entwicklung von sozialistischen und kommunistischen Bewegungen auf der ganzen Welt beeinflussten.
En 2009 el filósofo esloveno Slavoj Žižek congregó a un renombrado elenco de académicos e intelectuales para discutir en torno a la persistente relevancia del comunismo en los momentos actuales.
Der französische Forscher Henri Mouhot stößt sich bei einer Schmetterlingsjagd den Kopf, blickt auf und steht erstaunt vor den vergessenen Tempelanlagen von Angkor Wat.
Una distorsión recorre el pensamiento político de los dos últimos siglos hasta el presente: la deformación de la teoría crítica del capitalismo elaborada por Karl Marx.
In the years before the Berlin Wall came down and Communism fell in Eastern Europe, Daniel and Cynthia Tracy served the church behind the Iron Curtain by providing Bibles, Christian literature, ministry in teaching, preaching and worship, and humanitarian help.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times_________________________________ 'It's like this, Saul Adler.
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.
In Part I, this booklet traces the post-Independence struggles in the United States for the realization of the ideals of the early Enlightenment thinkers, with particular emphasis on the practical struggles of the working class.
This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.