Far-left political ideologies and movements

Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion.

Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion.

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism.

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism.

Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism - the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved.

Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism - the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved.

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis.

Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis.

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.

This book investigates the return of workers' self-management in recent decades as responses to recurring neoliberal crises.

'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's WeeklyOne family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.

In Can Common People Govern?

The United States is known as a country that has been highly antagonistic to Socialism of any form.

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world.

In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule.

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation.

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people.

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution.

A Project Syndicate Best Read of the YearOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power.

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We are a strange species, us humans.

As a teenager during World War II, author Lilija "e;Lita"e; Zarina's idyllic life of perfumed soaps, shelves full of books, and carefree parties explodes into irretrievable pieces after a Soviet bomb strikes her family's property in Latvia.

In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted a "e; species of oppression [with] which democratic nations are menaced unlike anything which ever before existed in the world "e; It was a despotism that "e; would be more extensive and would degrade men without tormenting them.

Marx and Engels invented it; Lenin volunteered Russia for the honour of trying it; the Soviet people had to live with it.

'Bizarre and quite brilliant.

A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin.

A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era.

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party retains control over China''s rulers through their education and training.

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party retains control over China''s rulers through their education and training.

A fascinating history of frontier Stalinism that sheds new light on the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s.

This book is about the religious dimensions of American leadership''s fight against communism during the Cold War.

A comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China.

An account and technical assessment of Marx''s economic analysis in Capital and other documents.

A history of Poland from the Second World War until the fall of Communism.

This book follows the rise and fall of the Iraqi Communist Party through original records.

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

This book connects the study of democratisation to the emergence and crisis of communism.

No other art movement has so profoundly influenced radical politics as the Situationist International.

Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay reflects on what may be living and dead in its legacy.

This book describes how and why the Soviet administrative command system operated and failed.

This book, first published in 2003, looks at the evolving relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and private entrepreneurs.

This book sheds light on state and society relations in China under the Nationalist and Communist regimes.

In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.

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.

Marx After Marxism encourages readers to understand Karl Marx in new ways, unencumbered by political Marxist interpretations that have long dominated the discussions of both Marxists and non-Marxists.

International challenges in agricultural economics for the nineties will come from a redirection of the EC policy, stimulated by GATT negotiations, the opening towards Eastern Europe and environmental considerations, from a production oriented policy towards rural policy, aiming at protecting vulnerable regions, maintaining a rural population, curtailing production in the West and fostering it in the East, and aiming at the provision of environmentally desirable output.