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  • You Don't Know What You Think You "Know" About . . . The Communist Revolution and the Real Path to Emancipation

    by Raymond Lotta ...
    This book takes on and refutes the conventional wisdom that communist revolution has been a disaster and nightmare. In a wide-ranging, provocative, and richly detailed interview, Raymond Lotta, a political economist and expert in the history of communism, guides the reader through the "first wave" of socialist revolutions: the Paris Commune of 1871, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917-56, and the ... Read more

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  • History of the Russian Revolution

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Born in the GDR

    Living in the Shadow of the Wall

    by Hester Vaizey ...
    The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and upheaval: from the way they voted, the newspapers they read, to the brand of butter they bought. But what was it really like to ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • God and the State

    by Michael Bakunin ...
    Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) was a Russian revolutionary and theorist, and has often been called the father of anarchist theory. Bakunin studied philosophy, finding himself drawn to works by Fichte and Hegel, eventually converting himself entirely to Hegelianism. Bakunin gained criminal status after being deported from France where he met George Sand, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx and later ... Read more

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  • Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

    by Richard Pipes ...
    From the accliamed authority on Russia and the Russian Revolution—the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924"Offers a penetrating analysis of the making of the Soviet system.... [It is] a passionate book whose outstanding scholarship is rooted in universal values like truth, honor, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era

    Reassessing Collective Leadership

    by Cheng Li ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with his bold anti-corruption campaign and his aggressive consolidation of power.Given these new developments, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A World Transformed

    by George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft ...
    It was one of the pivotal times of the twentieth century--during George Bush's presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world. Now, former President Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, tell the story of those tumultuous years.Here are behind-the-scenes accounts of critical meetings in the White House and of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Commonsense Anticommunism

    Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars

    by Jennifer Luff ...
    Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America’s “first line of defense” against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare. The AFL’s “commonsense anticommunism,” she argues, steered a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Greatest Catastrophe of the 20th Century. Or, How the Soviet Union Disintegrated in 1991.

    SHORT STORY # 31. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

    by Alla P. Gakuba ...
    Series Book 31 - Nonfiction series
    The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions."The USA is sinking from $20 trillion debts, and $17 trillion personal debts; middle class disappeared; 1 in 2 Americans live in poverty ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Globalizing Central Asia

    Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development

    by Marlene Laruelle, Sebastien Peyrouse ...
    In this global era, Central Asia must be understood in both geo-economic and geopolitical terms. The region's natural resources compel the attention of rivalrous great powers and ambitious internal factions. The local regimes are caught between the need for international collaborations to valorize these riches and the need to maintain control over them in the interest of state sovereignty. Russia ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Aesthetics and Marxism

    Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries

    by Kang Liu, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Magical Marxism

    Subversive Politics and the Imagination

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    Series series Marxism and Culture
    *Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2012*Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition.Magical Marxism demands something more of orthodox Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a Marxism that moves beyond debates about class, the role of the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat. In escaping the formalist straitjacket of typical ... Read more

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