Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Mikhail Tomsky (1880-1936) was one of the most important and influential leaders of the early Soviet Union. This first English-language biography of Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the...

This book surveys revolutionary socialist ideas and engages a gallery of contentious political thinkers, offering an indispensable assessment of the place of revolutionary collectives in this radical tradition. Beginning with a broad and informative...

Karl Marx circles us, and we him. This reflects the power of his legacy, but it also indicates the nature of the intellectual process. We move around objects of interest and insight, working by successive approximations. Peter Beilharz has been circling...

How do leading Labour figures strive to communicate with and influence the electorate? Why have some proven more successful than others in advancing their ideological arguments? How do orators seek to connect with different audiences in different...

Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: Jose Marti, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them. These three interlocutors-the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary...

As the author of the ground-breaking work of Marxist political economy, Finance Capital, and a leader in the German Social Democratic Party, Rudolf Hilferding was a dominant intellectual and political figure in the history of European socialism from its...

Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural,...

First published in 1985, this book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the diverse Communist development strategies that shaped the twentieth century. Robert Bideleux emphasises the appalling human and economic costs of the most widely adopted...

The first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia, this volume examines the prospects for transplanting a 'rule of law' that will attract and sustain international trade and investment in this economically dynamic region. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440088Author Anton PannekoekFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

First published in 1981 The Italian Communist Party looks at the debate within the party and how its strategy was forged. It considers the development of Eurocommunism, the rise and fall of the Ingrao Left and many other topics related to the formulation...

Marxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and amongst Black diasporas. But South Asia has been relatively neglected in efforts to register...

What is happening to the Left? It seems to be dying a slow death. While many commentators have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the most unexpected ways. Nevertheless, we are witnessing...

What is happening to the Left? It seems to be dying a slow death. While many commentators have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the most unexpected ways. Nevertheless, we are witnessing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872242057Author Paul Le BlancFormat PaperbackImprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books

This book examines the eastern European seminar of the late 1980s and early 1990s-an ongoing academic meeting place outside the formal rubric of the university-tracing its evolution into a social movement on the street and identifying the political force...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433964052Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141260Author Joseph Anthony RulliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Marx's thought is being re-appropriated and re-interpreted by a new generation. In Returns of Marxism, a wide-ranging collection, scholar-activists from around the world return to Marx, but they do so in a way that avoids a dogmatic approach to his...

This book familiarizes the English-speaking reader with the debate on the originality of Gramsci's thought and its importance for the development of Marxist theory. The contributors present the principal viewpoints regarding Gramsci's theoretical...

Karl Marx was the first theorist of a truly 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589639171Author Joseph V StalinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. Whole forests have been felled to produce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869783Author Pierre FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance BooksWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145123Author David PriestlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 675Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central role of the Left in social movements and struggles of the past and present, and highlights some of the amazing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976719Author Ludwig von MisesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647107Author Bhaskar SunkaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

The philosophical and political development that converted Georg Lukacs from a distinguished representative of Central European aesthetic vitalism into a major Marxist theorist and Communist militant has long remained an enigma. In this this now classic...

Bertram D. Wolfe was one of the foremost American authorities on Soviet history and politics. Several generations of students in dozens of countries have acquired their first understanding of the events and personalities that shaped modern Russia from...

This title was first published in 1976Book InformationISBN 9781138037410Author Pierre M PerrolleFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

The recent history of post-Soviet societies is often described in terms of the transition metaphor. Images of movement as well as changing places and situations were foundational for the social conceptualization of the new nations. The idea of looking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639614Author Susan CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Workers LibertyPublisher Phoenix PressWeight(grams) 148g

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982190217Author Kristen R GhodseeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408g

Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution Volume 2: Micro Intellectual History through De-central LensesWhy have the influences of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (roughly 1966-1976) in contemporary China been so pervasive,...

Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and eight years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, experts continue to debate one of the most important political questions of the twentieth century-why did Communism collapse so suddenly? A...

First published in 1935, Practical Socialism for Britain presents an assessment of the Labour government's policy options and aggressively advocates for socialism Britain's panacea. Citing apathy and panic-mongering as the greatest enemies of the Labour...

The People's Republic of China is changing. It is modernizing, shifting ideological gears, becoming realistic about development needs and goals, and moving away from its isolationist past toward a much more open and pragmatic assessment of its present...

Through a discussion of current perspectives in philosophy of history-especially with a critical approach to Paul Ricoeur's work-and a rigorous reading of Karl Marx's oeuvre, Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces proposes a novel interpretation...