Beginning in 1903, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was divided into opposing sections, one led by Vladimir Lenin, the other by Iulii Martov. Until 1917, both Lenin and Martov were equally prominent figures in Russian politics...
Communism
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Author:Martov, L.Summary: - Author:Camfield, DavidSummary:
This book will provide readers with a short and accessible introduction to a Marxist theory for our times. More specifically, it will present and argue for an anti-racist queer feminist historical materialism (ARQFHM). This is a...
- Author:Locke, KatherineSummary:
The Fountains of Silence meets Spinning Silver in this rollicking tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. In the middle of Budapest, there is a river....
- Author:Lee, HyeonseoSummary:
New York Times bestseller. An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships—and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture, repatriation, and guide her...
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Author:Marx, Karl, Engels, FriedrichSummary:Every feel like you’re not getting ahead at work? Does it seem like you can’t catch up on your bills? Well, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles have an answer for you: Communism! Read their self-help guide packed with practical financial...
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Author:Reed, JohnSummary:"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed's own admission...
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Author:Derrida, JacquesSummary:Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of...
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Author:Platonov, Andreĭ PlatonovichSummary:The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever...
- Author:Valiavicharska, ZhivkaSummary:
Post-Stalinism - the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - gave birth to new political ideas and social struggles, which reshaped socialist societies and forged new global imaginaries. With a focus on...
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Author:Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr IsaevichSummary:In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has...
- Author:Stroińska, MagdaSummary:
My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska's personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive...
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Author:Sweatman, MargaretSummary:Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. Shortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and ReLit Award (Novel). Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of historical fiction. Yet nothing she has...
- Author:Strathern, PaulSummary:
Strathern briskly outlines the development of Marx's thought as a philosopher and political economist; and as with all titles in this series, illuminates the man behind the ideas.
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.
- Author:Hua, VanessaSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover—and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution—in this “masterful new novel” ( The Washington Post ) “A new classic about China’s Cultural...
- Author:Potter, Pitman B.Summary:
Exporting Virtue critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.
- Author:Fitzpatrick, SheilaSummary:
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization...
- Author:Kengor, PaulSummary:
In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: the prominent role of the "dupe." From the Bolshevik Revolution through the Cold War and...
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The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America's leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks...
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Author:Evans, M. StantonSummary:This long-awaited book, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the US government.
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