Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

The New Labour government elected in May 1997 claimed that it would modernise the welfare state, by rejecting the solutions of both the Old Left and the New Right. New Labour, new welfare state? provides the first comprehensive examination of the social...

Social democracy emerged in the late nineteenth century and has become a leading political ideology in Europe. This short history approaches the evolution of this ideology as a body of political thought and political practices. It expounds the...

Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy,...

Leon Trotsky's 1905 - despite long being out of print - has remained the central point of reference for those looking to understand the rising of workers, peasants and soldiers that nearly unseated the Tsar in 1905. Trotsky's elegant, beautifully written...

Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great...

This book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization Matzpen (compass) that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in 1962. After the Six Day War of June 1967, Matzpen shook Israeli society, calling for a withdrawal from...

In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this...

'In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska.' Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemianska...

From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.A classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theoristAbout the AuthorTerry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873488778Author Nelson BlackstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336240Author Stephen RookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha Walia The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle,...

Incorporating original archival research and a series of critiques of recent accounts of economic development in pre-modern England, in The Origin of Capitalism in England 1400-1600, Spencer Dimmock has produced a challenging and multi-layered account of...

Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure...

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic 'Third Way' by analysing...

Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s...

YEARS OF HOPE is a kind of 'prequel' to the published series of DIARIES, and will cover fully the peerage renunciation, as well as revealing his early career, touching on schooldays, RAF service during the war, early involvement with politics etc. As a...

This highly detailed, absorbing Cold War guide is the ideal companion for anyone wishing to explore the once divided capital of Berlin. Using his in-depth knowledge as a historian and battlefield/historical guide, David McCormack describes in vivid...

In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism, the ideology that presided over decades of market globalisation, is on trial, while...

'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna FifieldHOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A...

In this volume, the first of the author's works to be translated into English, Samezo Kuruma examines the different angles from which Marx analyses the commodity and money in the first two chapters of Capital, Vol I. Kuruma carefully explains each of the...

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to Marxist approaches to art history. Although the aesthetic was a crucial part of Marx and Engels's thought, they left no full statement on the arts. Although there is an abundant scholarship on Marxist...

A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541904Author Peter LevendaFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Ibis PressPublisher Ibis PressWeight(grams) 1g

Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with...

What changes in China's modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a...

The theories of Karl Marx and the practical existence of the Soviet Union are inseparable in the public imagination, but for all the wrong reasons. This book provides detailed analyses of both Marx's theory of history and the course of Russian and Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619490017Author Friedrich EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

The pioneering tank crew of the First World War would be astonished by the advances made in the design of armoured fighting vehicles over the last 100 years which have resulted in the Challenger 2, the current main battle tank in service with the British...

An extraordinary new selection of the letters of Che Guevara, from throughout his life, many released for the very first timeChe Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512652Author Kevin A HassettFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470496688Author William F. BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943003372Author Michael RectenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter...

Although the most pernicious consequences of the crisis have apparently abated, the long-term political repercussions remain unclear. Whereas most attention has focused on the right-wing populist parties, the rejuvenation of the left is an unwritten...

The Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world.The book begins this assessment by briefly recapitulating the origins of Trotskyism, as a political current within the communist...

The Equal Opportunities Revolution explains why bosses took equal opportunities on board just as they were tearing up union rights at work. It asks why greater rights led to greater inequality, and why advances in race and sex equality ran alongside...

Active in the 1830s and 1840s, Flora Tristan is best known for her book "Workers' Union", an account of the conditions of women and workers in Peru, London, Paris and the provinces of France. Regarded as something of a pariah, she was one of the first...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapital, that the roots of Lenin's political thought took shape. This book, from a former curator of the Russian...

Since its first publication in 1942, this book has become the classic analytical study of Marxist economics. Written by an economist who was a master of modern academic theory as well as Marxist literature, it has been recognized as the ideal textbook in...