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The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man': Rethinking Homo Sovieticus Dr Gulnaz Sharafutdinova 9781350167728
RRP: $25.33$21.63Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to... -
Marx Terrell Carver 9781509518180
RRP: $33.13$29.68Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them... -
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 by Jens Gieseke
RRP: $46.70$38.01The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had... -
The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin by Michael Kenny 9780853157977
RRP: $33.15$32.19In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: $19.48$14.45Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are... -
The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution: The Political Impact of Market Lance Gore 9780415855266
RRP: $93.58$81.53The Chinese Communist Party and China's Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are... -
Political Parties by Robert Michels 9781008973152
RRP: $40.35$35.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008973152Author Robert MichelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g -
The Battle for the Labour Party by David Kogan 9781448217359
RRP: $29.23$24.16The Battle for the Labour Party was first published in 1981 and was referenced by Tony Benn in his 1980-1990 diaries as 'a valuable guide to the developments within the Labour party at this time'. This 1982 updated edition is an essential resource for... -
West Africans in Britain, 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism by Hakim Adi 9780853158486
RRP: $31.20$30.40This work captures the dynamism of the West-African student movement in Britain, and the struggle to articulate a coherent, anti-colonial politics. The emergence of the West African Students Union (WASU) and its alliances with influential Labour MPs, the... -
Collected Works: Volume 3 by V.I. Lenin
$86.29Among 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. For anyone who seeks to... -
Democracy At Work: Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises by Richard Wolff 9781608462476
RRP: $33.13$18.78The world is undergoing vast social, economic and political transformations. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, it is clear that people are seeking out new forms of democracy. A new historical vista is opening before us. Democracy at Work is a... -
The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus
RRP: $15.58$11.29A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker
RRP: $35.08$25.25In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel... -
The Spanish Anarchists by Murray Bookchin 9781873176047
RRP: $27.20$17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176047Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 426g -
A Companion to Marx's Capital by David Harvey 9781844673599
RRP: $46.78$46.41"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."The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the... -
F D Maurice and the Crisis of Christian Authority by Jeremy Morris 9780199263165
RRP: $40.93$37.36F. D. Maurice was a leading nineteenth-century theologian famous for founding the movement called Christian Socialism. In the first major reassessment of Maurice's work for many years, Jeremy Morris argues that his importance above all lay in his... -
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century Jonas Ceika 9781913462499
RRP: $21.43$13.65Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction. In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Ceika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the 21st century. Leaving behind its past associations... -
FV430 Series: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Robert Griffin
RRP: $33.13$24.73During the Second World War the British infantry found itself lacking suitable transport to cope with the fast moving German Blitzkrieg tactics. Various stop-gap measures were introduced with mixed success but, with the pots-war nuclear biological and... -
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
RRP: $36.95$29.97Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost... -
Cold War Interceptor: The RAF's F.155T/O.R. 329 Fighter Projects: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: $53.63$37.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658030Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 959gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
RRP: $68.25$56.04A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the... -
Dependency, Neoliberalism and Globalization in Latin America by Carlos Eduardo Martins
RRP: $58.50$43.64The Marxist Theory of Dependency (TMD) managed to explain both the insertion of peripheral societies into the international market and the capital accumulation processes of each country. This theory has become an essential tool for those endeavoring to... -
Now: Volume 23 by The Invisible Committee
RRP: $27.28$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635900071Author The Invisible CommitteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 11mm -
Beneath the Restless Wave: Memoirs of a Cold War Submariner by Edward Couzens-Lake
RRP: $39.00$27.87An engaging first-hand memoir of life in the Royal Navy during the Cold WarTony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialisation as a... -
Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism by Karl Kautsky 9781642593372
RRP: $58.50$38.77Karl Kautsky (1854-1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time. However, during the twentieth century a constellation of historical factors ensured that his ideas... -
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 Charles Emmerson 9781847923967
RRP: $48.75$36.31'A REMARKABLE BOOK... AN AMAZINGLY AUDACIOUS AND COMPLETELY INNOVATIVE WAY OF WRITING HISTORY... IMMEDIATE AND GRIPPING' - WILLIAM BOYD In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to... -
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class by Mike Davis
RRP: $25.33$24.90Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the... -
The Communist Manifesto: A Graphic Novel by Karl Marx
RRP: $29.23$21.57Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms. It remains the most incisive introduction to the... -
Marxism and Law by Hugh Collins 9780192851444
RRP: $73.11$52.36In this introduction to Marxism and the law, Hugh Collins presents a unified and coherent view of Marxism, which he uses to examine the specific characteristics of legal institutions, rules, and ideals. He pays particular attention to the place of... -
Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory by Herbert Marcuse 9781922491589
RRP: $58.48$34.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922491589Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Critical EditionsPublisher Critical EditionsWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Capital of Spies: Intelligence Agencies in Berlin During the Cold War by Bernd von Kostka
RRP: $48.75$34.36For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War was right across Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, the secret services of NATO and the Warsaw Pact fought an ongoing duel in the dark. Throughout the Cold War, espionage was part of everyday... -
A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser by Panagiotis Sotiris
RRP: $87.75$59.59In A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser, Panagiotis Sotiris undertakes a reading of the work of the French philosopher centered upon his deeply political conception of philosophy. Althusser's endeavour is presented as a quest for a new... -
Taking Control!: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic Anthony Barnett 9781914420269
RRP: $25.33$16.77From Anthony Barnett, the creator and former editor-in-chief of openDemocracy, comes this blazing response to the confrontation between Trumpism and Biden in America, that sets out how the future of humankind is at stake. On 6 January 2021, Donald... -
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: $54.50$43.97A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearThe history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.On a hike... -
The Third Way and its Critics by Anthony Giddens 9780745624501
RRP: $33.13$25.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Life And Death Of Leon Trotsky by Victor Serge 9781608464692
RRP: $42.88$32.49The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky provides an invaluable picture of Leon Trotsky's intimate experience as both a leader of, and outcast exile from, the Russian Revolution. Victor Serge and Natalia Sedova's portrait brings Trotsky's extraordinary life to... -
A Military History of Scotland Edward M. Spiers 9780748694495
RRP: $78.00$67.04This is a magisterial work of Scots military history. The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. This illustrated pean to his rich heritage explores both the detail of battles and the cultural history of war, devoting eight separate... -
A People's History of the Russian Revolution Neil Faulkner 9780745399034
RRP: $33.13$22.50The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it, showing how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies,... -
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
RRP: $21.43$14.39When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation... -
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 by Bryan D. Palmer
RRP: $126.75$84.03Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of...