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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany to its rise to dominance (and subsequent fall) in the twentieth century, and shows how Communism, in all its varieties, appealed to different societies for different reasons.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 28
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Karl Marx's theories have shaped and directed political economic, and social thought for 150 years. Here the renowned philosopher Peter Singer describes Marx's life and early ideas before clearly and concisely identifying the central vision that unifies Marx's thought and enables us to grasp it as a whole. In this new edition. Singer explores whether Marx and his ideas remain relevant to politics and society today. Assessing Marx's impact and the...
6) Communism
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Describes what the communist system of government is, how the leaders come to power over a country, and what it is like to live under such a regime. The history of how communism has evolved, the rise and fall of leaders, and the future of communist countries are examined"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...
8) Yesterday's tomorrow: on the loneliness of communist specters and the reconstruction of the future
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Adamczak responds to right-wing criticism in English of her first book, Communism for Kids, and critiques tendencies on the left to sidestep the dark history and the path that Communism ended up taking. She takes the reader through a series of 8 turning-points in the betrayal of communism, moving in reverse chronological order, from when the Soviet Russians deported anti-Fascists to Nazi Germany in 1939, and moving backwards...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of...
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
""Revolutions, like trees, must be judged by their fruit," Ignazio Silone wrote, and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experience - in the China of "the Great Helmsman," Kim Il Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho" and Cuba under Castro, Ethiopia under Mengistu, Angola under Neto, and Afghanistan under Najibullah. The authors, all distinguished scholars based in Europe, document Communist crimes against humanity, but also crimes...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"At the midpoint of the twentieth century, Sir Winston Churchill called the United States "this gigantic capitalist organization, with its vast and superabundant productive power." The dollar reigned supreme and Pittsburgh and Detroit were at the summit of their power and prestige. From Washington, American statesmen sought to guide the destiny of nations. Victorious in the elections of 1948, Harry Truman and the leaders of the Democratic Party hoped...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Communist International was the first organized attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on twentieth-century history. Acclaimed historian Brigitte Studer offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organization founded in 1919 by Lenin and Trotsky and dissolved by Stalin in 1943, telling the story through the eyes of the activists who became its 'professional revolutionaries'"--
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