Far-left political ideologies and movements

This book, first published in 1984, provides a wealth of original evidence that explores not only the impact of the Vietnam War on the beliefs of American leaders - the 'lessons' they believed had been learnt by Americans from the conflict in Vietnam.

This book analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jeno) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist economic theory as well as the influence he exercised on Stalin's foreign policy and through the Comintern on the international communist movement.

These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

This book explores regional variations in civilians'' attitudes toward the Jewish population in Romania and the occupied Soviet Union.

Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny-one of the world's leading historians of the period-explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of "e;Communism"e; and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders.

MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.

In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies.

Through empirical analysis and conceptual development, this book analyzes the political psychology of Xi Jinping's Anticorruption Campaign and its role in the Chinese political system.

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

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

Politics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many they are few!

First published in 1941, Marxism: Is it Science?

The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the West, particularly America.

Available for the first time in English language translation, this is the long-awaited second volume of the three part set on Totalitarianism and Political Religions, edited by the eminent Professor Hans Maier.

The Way of Bitterness (1931) is a valuable record of life in Soviet Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule.

An exhaustively researched account of late-Mao power strategy and its consequences on elite dynamics in subsequent decades, including the rise of Xi.

A vital reminder of the importance of academic freedom, Threatening Anthropology offers a meticulously detailed account of how U.

Homes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial effects of this on gender inequality and discrimination.

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the "e;memory wars"e; in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash.

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.

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

Originally published in 1983 Approaches to Welfare provides a unique introduction to the study of social welfare in Britain.

This book aims to explore precisely how modern Japanese poetry has remained central to public life in both Japan and its former colony of Taiwan.

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b.

»Logica come scienza storica«, das 1950 erschienene Hauptwerk Galvano Della Volpes, das für eine ganze Generation von italienischen Philosophen schulbildend war, gehört zu den wichtigsten Werken des europäischen Marxismus der Nachkriegszeit.

China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity.

In this third decade of the 21st century, deep problems plague our world.

A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable?

The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series features essays on the varied and often controversial ways Communism and Jewish history interacted during the 20th century.

"e;My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms.

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

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

The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare by a mind that has consistently and unhesitatingly engaged with its changing realities and often anticipated the way things have moved in the last decade.

This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work.

Understanding the young adults who came of age during the rise of China's economic and global powerThis book by a prominent Chinese sociologist explores how China's youth will influence the country's future.

Marx claims that unselfishness is a child of (workplace) culture, whereas the gene is selfish.

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

This book is an unconventional reappraisal of Soviet law: a field that is ripe for re-evaluation, now that it is clear of Cold War cobwebs; and, as this book shows, one that is surprisingly topical and newly compelling.

In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, youth emerged as a new and important social force in many parts of the world.

';This is the book we've been waiting for!

Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time.

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin.

This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia's provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.

To shed light on the global reassertion of authoritarianism in recent years, this volume analyses transnational diffusion and international cooperation among non-democratic regimes.

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.

The Way of Bitterness (1931) is a valuable record of life in Soviet Russia in the early days of Bolshevik rule.

The League for Social Reconstruction was formed in 1932 to provide an analysis of the capitalist system and to define the social goal toward which political action should be directed.