Far-left political ideologies and movements

Frederic Jameson is widely regarded as one of the most original and influential Marxist critics of the last decades.

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers.

Frederic Jameson is widely regarded as one of the most original and influential Marxist critics of the last decades.

Originally published in 1952.

Originally published in 1952.

By using the concept of capitalism as a "e;form of life"e;, the authors in this volume reconceive capitalism, its mechanisms and effects on our bodies and on our common life.

By using the concept of capitalism as a "e;form of life"e;, the authors in this volume reconceive capitalism, its mechanisms and effects on our bodies and on our common life.

While Marxian theory has produced a sound and rigorous critique of capitalism, has it faltered in its own practice of social transformation?

While Marxian theory has produced a sound and rigorous critique of capitalism, has it faltered in its own practice of social transformation?

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

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

Randall Swingler (1909-67) was arguably the most significant and the best-known radical English poet of his generation.

Randall Swingler (1909-67) was arguably the most significant and the best-known radical English poet of his generation.

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'.

Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin.

Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin.

The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate is a study of the ways in which various extremist groups have appropriated education for social manipulation in order to gain political power, and, in some cases, to incite violence.

The Co-opting of Education by Extremist Factions: Professing Hate is a study of the ways in which various extremist groups have appropriated education for social manipulation in order to gain political power, and, in some cases, to incite violence.

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past -- and present.

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.

Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator's perceptions of war and foreign threat.

James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies.

Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II.

In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy developed a moral philosophy that embraced pacifism, vegetarianism, the renunciation of private property, and a refusal to comply with the state.

Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, led to one of the most brutal campaigns of World War II: of the estimated 70 million people who died in World War II, over 30 million died on the Eastern Front.

Cypriot pollitics are among the most contentious in Europe, and frequently attract the attention of the international community.

In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created.

In 1960s Turkey, the armed forces and the radical leftist movement provided two very dynamic, but very different, political forces.

The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama.

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.

The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age.

The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure.

Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate.

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953.

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North.

In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created.

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953.

James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies.

Cypriot pollitics are among the most contentious in Europe, and frequently attract the attention of the international community.

In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy developed a moral philosophy that embraced pacifism, vegetarianism, the renunciation of private property, and a refusal to comply with the state.

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II.

In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by communist forces from the North.

The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure.

The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama.

The story of Raoul Wallenberg - the Swedish businessman who, at immense personal risk, rescued many of Budapest's Jews from the Holocaust and subsequently disappeared into the Soviet prison system - is one of the most fascinating episodes of World War II.

On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people.