Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

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

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN NJR AND BLURB SHOULD NOT BE USED IN ITS RAW FORM:From 1918 to 1945 the British Labour Party worked closely with some of the biggest names in international relations (IR) scholarship.

Socialist Realism without Shores offers an international perspective on the aesthetics of socialist realism-an aesthetic that, contrary to expectations, survived the death of its originators and the demise of its original domain.

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought.

In What's Left of the Left, distinguished scholars of European and U.

In recent decades, left political projects in the United States have taken a strong legalistic turn.

Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars-historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists-who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and China.

From Revolutionaries to Citizens is the first comprehensive account of the most important antiwar campaign prior to World War I: the antimilitarism of the French Left.

Imagine Fredric Jameson-the world's foremost Marxist critic-kidnapped and taken on a joyride through the cultural ephemera, generational hype, and Cold War fallout of our post-post-contemporary landscape.

"e;Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial.

Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-91 presents a strikingly new view of the Gorbachev era and the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Zhu Rongji served as party secretary and mayor of Shanghai from 1987 to early 1991.

A close-up look at the struggle for democracy in Hong Kong.

This two-volume set explores in-depth the economic origins and repercussions of the Arab Spring revolts.

This two-volume set explores in-depth the economic origins and repercussions of the Arab Spring revolts.

This book explores the important and barely examined connections between the humanitarian concerns embedded in the religious heritage of Jewish American artists and the appeal of radical political causes between the years of the Great Migration from Eastern Europe in the 1880s and the beginning of World War II in the late 1930s.

Studies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict typically focus on how international conditions drive the likelihood of conflict resolution.

This authoritative biography chronicles the pioneering work of a nineteenth-century Black abolitionist and civil rights activist.

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises proclaimed that all attempts to establish socialism would come to grief, for reasons of informational efficiency.

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945.

The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernity-that of liberal capitalism.

With the new edition of my book "e;Between Utopia and Tyranny: The Fascination and Horror of Communism"e; I offer you an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of "e;communism"e;, introducing you to the history and ideologies behind one of the most influential political movements of the 20th century.

French socialism traces its origins to the revolutionary communist Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797) and for a time during the Second Republic socialists such as Louis Blanc, Etienne Canet, Victor Considerant, Jeanne Deroin, Pauline Roland, Blanqui, and Raspail occupied a prominent place in the attempt to create a reforming social democracy.

Focusing on four individuals, Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way describes the lives and ideas of Ernest Winch, Bill Pritchard, Bob Russell, and Arthur Mould and examines their efforts to put their ideas into practice.

Ecosocialism: Climate Change, Socialism and Democracy maps out a political path for green transition which is both desirable and practicable - without avoiding its difficulties - giving the fight for climate justice real mobilising power.

Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe?

Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time he has become a myth and an icon.

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault.

We are told that this is a new world, with which old theories cannot cope.

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has become a focus of discussion across the world.

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America.

The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited.

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'.

*AGuardianBook of the Day*The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benns famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.

*AGuardianBook of the Day*The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benns famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.

This handbook provides a methodical, comprehensive, and unifying overview of the vibrant yet disparate scholarship on populism and foreign policy.

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

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world.

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

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

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.

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, and described by A.

Examines the policies and performance of left-wing governments that have risen to power in Latin America during the last decade.

Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world.