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Focusing on the steel industry during the post-communist transition from 1989 through 2009, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee traces the transformation of flagship state enterprises in the Czech Republic, Pol……続きを見る

It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social rela……続きを見る

In order to understand the resilience of capitalism as a mode of production, social organization, and an intellectual system, it is necessary to explore its intellectual development and underlying s……続きを見る

Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term impl……続きを見る

Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term impl……続きを見る

In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualis……続きを見る

O livro traz um modelo de constituição brasileira hipotética, implementando o socialismo cooperativista em superação ao capitalismo, assim como um novo Poder e mecanismo de democracia direta para ap……続きを見る

First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader. Central issues of S……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Stalin, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Descubrir la vida……続きを見る

Eine lückenlose Überwachung von Post und Telefon, ein Spitzel in jeder Kneipe, die Verstrahlung von Oppositionellen - es gibt nur wenig, was man der Stasi nicht zutraut. Doch was konnten Mielkes Män……続きを見る

Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In ex……続きを見る

First published in 1975, this book is concerned with the facts and implications of the case of Lin Piao and his army, as well as with the broader question of military intervention in the authoritari……続きを見る

‘Based on research among thousands of unpublished documents concealed in the Communist Party archives until the fall of the regime, Lenin: Life and Legacy is a crushing indictment of the regime’s fo……続きを見る

Die Schlachten des 20. Jahrhunderts auf den Gebieten der Politik, Wirtschaft, Philosophie und Kunst sind nicht entschieden. Hundert Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und der russischen Revolution bedr……続きを見る

Leo Trotzki (1879 -1940) gehört zu den größten und am meisten umstrittenen Persönlichkeiten in der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Während seines Lebens war er das Ziel einer bösartigen Kampagne vo……続きを見る

Als Leo Trotzki am 20. August 1940 vom stalinistischen Agenten Ramon Mercader erschlagen wurde, stand die Menschheit an der Schwelle der größten Katastrophe ihrer bisherigen Geschichte. In Deutschla……続きを見る

Anthony Crosland bequeathed a significant intellectual legacy to the Labour Party including his celebrated treatise The Future of Socialism published sixty years ago. In this timely book, Patrick Di……続きを見る

Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of wheth……続きを見る

Well argued and balanced, Leichtova provides an alternative and more constructive understanding of what drives Russian foreign policy. The book is based on the concepts of constructivism and orienta……続きを見る

Marx e a crítica da educação: Da expansão liberal-democrática à crise regressivo-destrutiva do capital, de Justino de Souza Junior, propõe uma releitura do pensamento marxista. A obra retrata as pre……続きを見る

In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent m……続きを見る

Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifia……続きを見る

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produ……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017 'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway p……続きを見る

As a nation makes the transition from communism to democracy or another form of authoritarianism, its regime must construct not only new political institutions, but also a new political ideology tha……続きを見る

`To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to Archie Brown's astute and lucid book. There have been several excellent works on Mr Gorbachev ... but none examines the ……続きを見る

Achille Loria was a well-known Italian political economist and this translation of his work presents his views and discussions on famous socialist Karl Marx, bringing his work to an English audience……続きを見る

Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But back in the 1980s, this “democratic socialist”ーtho……続きを見る

‘Absorbing… I now place Volkogonov’s great biographical triptych [Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky] at the top of my reading list on the Russian revolution.’ Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times Following Stalin (199……続きを見る

William Frank Buckley Jr.'s third book, originally published in 1959, is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the lea……続きを見る