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  • Terrorism and Communism Terrorism and Communism
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    Terrorism and Communism

    First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs.
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  • Marxism and Modern Thought Marxism and Modern Thought
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    Marxism and Modern Thought

    First published in English in 1935, this is a critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era in the light of Marxism.
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  • Real Democracy Occupy Real Democracy Occupy
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    Real Democracy Occupy

    The liberal representative model of democracy is in a crisis. In protest camps, neighbourhood assemblies and through other non-hierarchical initiatives, the Occupy movement as well as other recent anti-austerity movements are redefining democracy as a...
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  • Walt Whitman and British Socialism Walt Whitman and British Socialism
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    Walt Whitman and British Socialism

    This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman's reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She...
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  • Homeland Security, its Law and its State Homeland Security, its Law and its State
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    Homeland Security, its Law and its State

    This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life. It examines political discourse, law, institutional architecture, and state-population relations, and shows that 'homeland security' is a project with...
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  • The Housing Monster
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    The Housing Monster

    A house is more than four walls and a roof. From its design and production to the way it is sold, used, resold, and eventually demolished, it is crisscrossed by conflict.The Housing Monster is a scathing graphic guide that takes one seemingly simple,...
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  • Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China
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    Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China

    This book argues that the fundamental shift in Chinese Cinema away from Socialism and towards Post-Socialism can be located earlier than the emergence of the "Fifth Generation" in the mid-eighties when it is usually assumed to have occured. By close...
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  • Nothing to Envy
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    Nothing to Envy

    WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like...
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    The Colour Revolutions in the Former Soviet Republics

    During the first decade of the 21st century, a remarkable phenomenon swept through the former Soviet Union changing the political, social and cultural landscape. Popularly known as the 'Colour Revolutions', these non-violent protests overthrew autocratic...
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  • The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939 The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939
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    The Independent Labour Party, 1914-1939

    Historians of political history are fascinated by the rise and fall of political parties and, for twentieth-century Britain, most obviously the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party. What is often overlooked in this political...
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  • The Postcolonial Gramsci The Postcolonial Gramsci
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    The Postcolonial Gramsci

    The importance of Antonio Gramsci's work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the...
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  • Democratization and the European Union Democratization and the European Union
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    Democratization and the European Union

    This book examines in depth the impact of the EU on aspects of the quality of democracy in eight selected post-communist countries. Considering both the political and legal aspects of the dynamics among institutions and focussing on inter-institutional...
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  • The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia
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    The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia

    This book examines the nature of the extreme right in contemporary Russia, arguing in particular that, alongside a continuing tradition which emphasizes Russia's orthodox and traditional past, an increasingly important intellectual current is drawing on...
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  • Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden
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    Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden

    Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called 'Swedish...
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  • Dictator's Dilemma Dictator's Dilemma
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    Dictator's Dilemma

    Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, and again following the serial collapse of communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Their prediction, however, never proved true...
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  • Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience
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    Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience

    Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience offers a fresh look at Communism, both the bad and good, and also touches on anarchism, Christian theory, conservatism, liberalism, Marxism, and more, to argue for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and V.I...
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  • History of Fascism, 1914-1945 History of Fascism, 1914-1945
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    History of Fascism, 1914-1945

    What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religion? How did workers perceive the effects of the New Order in the workplace? What were the cultural...
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  • China's Brave New World China's Brave New World
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    China's Brave New World

    If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a...
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  • Science at the Cross Roads (Routledge Revivals) Science at the Cross Roads (Routledge Revivals)
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    Science at the Cross Roads (Routledge Revivals)

    The papers given by the Soviet Delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931, headed by N. I. Bukharin, exerted a profound influence upon Western historiography of science. Perhaps the most...
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  • Economic Prospects - East and West (Routledge Revivals) Economic Prospects - East and West (Routledge Revivals)
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    Economic Prospects - East and West (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries. Rather than passively following the developments of this crisis, the author seeks instead to...
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  • Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals) Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals)
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    Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1989, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a zero-sum struggle to a state of peaceful...
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  • The Politics of Becoming European The Politics of Becoming European
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    The Politics of Becoming European

    This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European.Approaching the study of Europe's eastern...
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  • The Chinese Communist Party in Reform The Chinese Communist Party in Reform
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    The Chinese Communist Party in Reform

    Contrary to the expectations of many people, China's recent economic growth has not led to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, the Party has recently carried out a peaceful and orderly transition to the so-called fourth generation of...
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  • Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia
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    Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia

    This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era. The book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and theoretical attempts by Russian scholars and political thinkers to make sense of the...
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  • Hayek Versus Marx Hayek Versus Marx
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    Hayek Versus Marx

    The aim of the book is to stimulate the realignment of political, theoretical and philosophical thinking that is now beginning in response to global warming. The author provides an examination of the theories of the most prominent social...
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  • New Socialisms New Socialisms
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    New Socialisms

    The major problems facing the world as it gets used to the twenty-first century are global inequality, poverty, war and militarism, oppression, exploitation and ecological sustainability. Far from solving these problems, economic and political...
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  • Socialism in the 21st Century Socialism in the 21st Century
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    Socialism in the 21st Century

    The present collection contains papers of the first national workshop organised by the All India Progressive Forum (AIPF) on '21st Century Socialism' in Hyderabad. Socialism is a controversial issue, rendered more controversial by the great collapse of...
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  • West Bengal under the Left West Bengal under the Left
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    West Bengal under the Left

    This book makes a critical analysis of West Bengal's Left Front regime (1977-2011) and explores the causes of its collapse under three sgments; inquiry into issues of political management; evaluation of various policy initiatives; and examination of...
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  • Social Classes in Marxist Theory Social Classes in Marxist Theory
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    Social Classes in Marxist Theory

    First published in 1984. This study critically examines the conceptions of social class employed by Marx and by modern Marxist writers, to probe their problematic areas and to propose certain modifications to those conception. The author also tests the...
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  • The Controversy over Capitalism The Controversy over Capitalism
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    The Controversy over Capitalism

    This book presents an analysis of classical Russian Populism, shown as an ideological structure within which many positions were possible. Walicki studies the confrontation of Populism and Marxism: changing attitudes toward Marxism in the Populist milieu...
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  • McCarthyism McCarthyism
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    McCarthyism

    In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anti-communist sentiment in the postwar United States, exploring the factors that facilitated McCarthyism and assessing the long-term effects on US politics and culture. McCarthyism:The...
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  • Exit from Globalization Exit from Globalization
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    Exit from Globalization

    Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human...
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  • Communist Indochina And U.s. Foreign Policy Communist Indochina And U.s. Foreign Policy
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    Communist Indochina And U.s. Foreign Policy

    This study examines the important political and economic developments in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia since the Communist victories in 1975 and analyzes the critical policy issues facing the Carter administration in dealing with these states. Summarizing...
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  • Trade Unions in China Trade Unions in China
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    Trade Unions in China

    The transition from a command economy to a capitalist market economy has entirely altered the industrial landscape in which Chinese trade unions have to operate. This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under...
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  • Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007 Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007
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    Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

    This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. Until now, there has been no equivalent study covering similar...
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  • Khrushchev in the Kremlin Khrushchev in the Kremlin
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    Khrushchev in the Kremlin

    This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines...
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  • Political Extremes Political Extremes
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    Political Extremes

    The Western tradition of the constitutional state, with its ancient roots, defines political extremes as the epitome of that what must be absolutely rejected. It highlights tyranny, despotism, despotic rule, non-autonomy, ruthless enforcing of interests...
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  • A Marxist Theory of Ideology A Marxist Theory of Ideology
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    A Marxist Theory of Ideology

    This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective. Advancing beyond the schemas of discussion presented in current Marxist literature, the author offers an account of how the concept of ideology should be defined and what...
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  • Europe's Last Frontier? Europe's Last Frontier?
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    Europe's Last Frontier?

    Three former western Soviet republics-Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova-now find themselves torn between the European Union and the increasingly assertive Russia. This volume examines the foreign and domestic policies of these republics with an eye to the...
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  • Mao's Forgotten Successor Mao's Forgotten Successor
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    Mao's Forgotten Successor

    This book examines the political career of Hua Guofeng, Mao's successor as paramount leader in 1976. Hua emerged seemingly out of nowhere following an unexceptional career as a young revolutionary in Shanxi and a provincial official in Hunan. It was in...
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  • At the Crossroads of PostCommunist Modernisation At the Crossroads of PostCommunist Modernisation
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    At the Crossroads of PostCommunist Modernisation

    The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of...
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