Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we...

In The Labor of Job, the renowned Marxist political philosopher Antonio Negri develops an unorthodox interpretation of the Old Testament book of Job, a canonical text of Judeo-Christian thought. In the biblical narrative, the pious Job is made to suffer...

Here is a tasty paradox: How did the Leftist legions regroup after history delivered its fatal blow to the Soviet system? Simple, argues Jean-Francois Revel: the Left retreated to the impregnable fortress of the Utopian ideal. After all, socialism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505684513Author V I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. Francois Furet illuminates how the support for Communism and its embodiment, the Soviet Union, became virtually synonymous with "anti-Fascism" and how this...

The theory of imperialism is primarily associated with the most prominent figures in the history of European Marxism. However, the theory was actually developed through engaged debates within the Second International from 1898-1916. This volume assembles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629636405Author Nicolas WalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Twenty years after the demise of the Communist Party of Great Britain, eight former members, all of whom who stayed in the party until the bitter end, reflect here on some of the personal, political and cultural changes of the last twenty years. The...

While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet worldview, their peoples confronted the narratives of both East and West. From the Soviet Union and its satellites, they heard of a West dominated by imperialist...

The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed.Over the past decade, the heavily...

Very few authors have addressed the origins of capitalism in France as the emergence of a distinct form of historical society, premised on a new configuration of social power, rather than as an extension of commercial activities liberated from feudal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869738Author Alan ThornettFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance BooksWeight(grams) 543gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869714Author Ian ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Bruce Brown argues, cannot rest content with the exclusive emphasis of traditional Marxism on world-historic processes and the struggle of the working classes for their collective...

August Nimtz uncovers attempts to chart a course between plain opportunism and anarchist rejections of the electoral arena. Instead, electoral campaigns are seen as crucial for developing political education and organization, and as a key way to measure...

This volume brings together Gramsci's writings on religion, education, science, philosophy and economic theory. The theme that links these writings is the investigation of ideology at its different levels, and the structures which embody and reproduce it...

No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion of this book by Etienne Balibar. Balibar spells out his reasoning against the background of the 22nd...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533331Author Albrecht KoschorkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm

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The fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory - and explore the rational grounds for socialist endeavour and commitment in a world which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679869Author Greg AlboFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490908427Author Joseph StalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176372227Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Chiron Academic PressPublisher Chiron Academic PressWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245843Author G. A. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

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This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s. Rather than examining the 1980s as a mere prelude to the violent...

In Marx and the Commons, Luca Basso provides a detailed reconstruction of the late Marx's connection of the collective dimension of communism and the element of individual realisation. Through an original analysis of a vast range of Marx's writings -...

The movement against war, oppression and environmental destruction is gaining in strength, credibility and mainstream awareness. In the face of economic crisis, global capitalism is fast being recognised as a bankrupt system. But is there an alternative?...

Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism is the first historical study of the P.O.U.M. to appear in English. Drawing from his multi-volume work on the subject, which was published in Spanish and Catalan, Victor Alba has collaborated with Stephen Schwartz...

The United States is known as a country that has been highly antagonistic to Socialism of any form. Socialists in the United States have tended to be political outsiders, mounting criticisms of the government without serving in elected office themselves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468096996Author Enver HoxhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Communist Parties in the Middle East: 100 Years of HistoryOne hundred years since the Russian Revolution, Communist parties have undergone great changes, in an evolution that has affected the entire Left and the social movements. Given that the impact of...

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This book shows how the leaders of the USA, Soviet Union, Europe (East and West), and China viewed the world in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Newly available records reveal what political leaders thought of the shattering, and largely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991030330Author Party for Socialism and LiberationFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Liberation MediaPublisher Liberation MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456455774Author Erich WollenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...