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....
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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...
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Author:Derrida, JacquesSummary: -
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.
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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: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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Author:Carew, AnthonySummary:During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely...
- Author:Schrecker, EllenSummary:
In this course, Yeshiva University history professor Ellen Schrecker investigates the early years of the Cold War and the anticommunist witch hunt that we now call McCarthyism as it swept through Americna society.
