Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
by Hain, Peter
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity straitjacket around our politics and media? Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left until...
Populating No Man’s Land
Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. The authors’ main objective is to contribute to the still unwritten chapter...
by Mark Carter
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Originally published in 1959, this is the true story of Mark Carter, who was born in Czarist Russia and experienced first-hand the aborted revolution of 1905, the Kerensky Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik Revolution of October, 1917, and witnessed the coming of communism to the largest country on...
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
"How I Became a Socialist" is a 1903 essay by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American journalist, novelist, and social activist. He was amongst the first writers of fiction to receive international acclaim and earn a large fortune from their work....
Budapest Diary
In Search of the Motherbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman (71,000 words and 2 photographs)
Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth — where...
The S Word
A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
A few months before the 2010 midterms, Newt Gingrich described the socialist infiltration of American government and media as “even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists.” John Nichols offers an unapologetic retort to the return of red-baiting in American political life—arguing...
Cultivating the Masses
Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population....
The Great 20th-Century Event that Changed the World:Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and the Russian Revolution of November 7-8, 1917.
SHORT STORY # 28. Nonfiction series #1 -- # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The greatest event of the 20th century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917.
The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2
systems: capitalism and socialism.
Lenin’s socialism and the Russian Revolution’s many decrees...
A Brief History of Communism
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book is the story of the men who believed they knew how to create an ideal world, and in its name did not hesitate to sacrifice millions of innocent lives.
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, it is important to understand how a small band of Communists was able...
No Less Than Mystic
A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st-Century Left
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.
Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian...
Dissident Marxism
Past Voices for Present Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
We are witnessing the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist, libertarian and anti-war. But where do today's dissidents come from? Dissident Marxism argues that their roots can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation of socialist revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures...
Down with Big Brother
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the...
Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism
Radical Politics After Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical “democracies.” The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who...
Red Apple
Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom,...