Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

This book examines the impact that nostalgia has had on the Labour Party's political development since 1951.

This book is a thematic history of the communist movement in Kerala, the first major region (in terms of population) in the world to democratically elect a communist government.

This book examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical Left circles in 1960s England.

Contemporary bipartisan politics undermines socialist solidarity by ignoring class issues and pitting advocates of social justice against ethno-national chauvinists.

In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, the welfare state is a well-worn analytical concept.

The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume.

In this book the author proposes that parties are indispensable to modern politics and that the absence of parties suggests that a system is governed by a traditional elite which has yet to come to terms with the modern world.

At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo.

Bernie Sanders' socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China's economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures.

Waiting for the revolution is a volume of essays examining the diverse currents of British left-wing politics from 1956 to the present day.

This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b.

Presented at a time when fascism was a new and little-understood phenomenon, Zetkins work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger.

This new exploration of Marx as a Jewish thinker presents "e;a perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments"e; of his life and work (Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal).

Capitalists and Conquerors is a series of path-breaking essays in the political sociology of education on topics hotly debated within the educational community.

Bringing together leading international scholars within the fields of social and political theory and philosophy, this book explores how we should understand work and its role(s) in our lives and wider society.

How can citizens best protect themselves from the arbitrary power of abusive spouses, tyrannical bosses, and corrupt politicians?

This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present.

The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela's Chavez, Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa - South America's most prominent 21st century socialists'.

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heritage.

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle-from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing.

A comprehensive, systematic analysis of the North Korean economy, exposing its hidden workings through quantitative data analysis and surveys.

The complex and hard-fought movement for political freedom in India coincided with the rise of a wealthy capitalist class of Indian industrialists who had profited under British rule.

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of socialism.

'A lucidly written and well-researched account .

On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the French Revolution, socialist parties from all corners of Europe met in Paris.

This book, originally published in 1923, embodies two related and yet distinct types of sociological endeavour.

Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms.

In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy.

This book considers the most electorally successful political party in Spain, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which was in government for two of the three decades since it won office under Felipe Gonzalez in 1982.

The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760-1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront.

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

First published in 1995.

The first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, further developing his ideas of ''justice-as-fairness''.

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.

Is it possible to evolve a form of socialism which, while promoting industrial development, will be merciful to the ideals of democracy?

Why does 1968 matter today?

Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually.

Argues that the decline of European social democracy is intertwined with the growth of novel manifestations of left progressive politics.

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union.

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This book, first published in 1979, examines the little-studied forerunners of the Russian revolutionary movement - the Russian section of the First International.

The papers given by the Soviet Delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931, headed by N.

Miroslav Hroch's Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe.

This volume concentrates on all China-related Pulitzer Prize-winning articles and caricatures over the span of eighty years, 1941 - 2021.

Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore.

Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation explores the subject of liberalism and its uses and contradictions across the late British Empire, especially in the context of imperial dissolution and subsequent state- building.

First published in 1990, this book was intended as a counter to the rising and continued strength of the New Right and an attempt to bolster the perceived weakness of the opposition - providing a critical discussion of New Right ideology and also of the more influential Left reactions to them.