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Phoenix Press The Vestas Jobs Battle
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Phoenix Press Why Trade Unions Should Not Support the Morning
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ACA Publishing Limited China’s New Strategies for Governing the Country
Book SynopsisTo say that China is a nation in transition is both a statement of the obvious and also a massive understatement. In the last 30 years, this country of 1.4 billion people has experienced annual economic growth of 10% or more, which has brought it to the forefront of the world’s trading nations. It has seen great shifts of population – over half its citizens now live in cities compared with just one-fifth before the reform process began – and huge changes to its social and legal structures. It has industrialized and modernized faster than any society has ever attempted before.China now looks forward to an era of consolidating that position and of evolving all of its political, legal, social and environmental structures to carry progress forward to 2020 and beyond.In eight chapters, the authors of this book describe how the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by General Secretary Xi Jinping intends to guide the country on its continuing path to greater prosperity. The chapters explore: China’s economy and the steps needed to make it fit for the years ahead; the ongoing processes of reform and opening up; the rule of law in the specific context of Chinese society; and evolution of China’s political systems. There are chapters on the subject of the people’s livelihood, and on ecological matters; and on the shape of its industry, the adoption of new technologies, and recognition of a coming shift in the balance of manufacturing and service sectorsThe book highlights the fact that China’s progress to date has not been in any way accidental, but has been the outcome of planned process, dating back to the late 1970s and the beginning of reform and opening up. Recognising that continued double-digit growth will not be sustainable going forward, the CPC has formulated plans to shape and adjust the systems needed to govern China in the new conditions; goals such as doubling the size of the economy from 2000 to 2020 remain in place as do other themes that run throughout the text; for example, furthering socialism with Chinese characteristics, and achieving prosperity for all of the Chinese population. The book concludes that the overall forces of reform apply equally to the CPC itself, and considers how the party must always exercise strict self-governance to fit it for the task of governing China as it approaches the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party in 2021.
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Marx's Capital: A Student Edition
Book SynopsisThis new edition of C. J. Arthur's student edition of Marx's most famous text is re-issued for Marx's 200th birthday in May 2018. Marx's Capital: A Student Edition makes one of the most influential texts of the modern era open and accessible to readers as never before. Karl Marx's Capital was first published in 1867, since when it has become the classic text of Marxism for professional economists, social scientists, philosophers, students, and political activists alike. But the sheer extent of Marx's great work of political economy has often daunted readers, and hampered their understanding of his ideas. Harold Wilson once jokingly claimed he gave up when he came across a two-page footnote on the first page. C.J. Arthur, whose student edition of The German Ideology by Marx and Engels has long proved popular, has substantially edited and abridged Marx's monumental work. His efforts make this book, one of the most influential texts of the modern era, open and accessible to readers as never before.Trade Review`Whatever the state of current politics, Karl Marx remains one of the great thinkers of the modern world. Chris Arthur has solved the problem of slimming down Capital, without tearing the fabric of Marx's argument or losing the flavour of his style, with exceptional success. All students will have reason to thank him.' - E.J. Hobsbawm
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Wellred Books The First Five Years of the Communist
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Wellred Books The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Wellred Books Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution
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Wellred Books History of the Russian Revolution: Volume 1
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Wellred Books History of the Russian Revolution: Volume 3
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Wellred Books Women, Family and the Russian Revolution
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Wellred Books Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
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Bookmarks Publications Comrades Come Rally!: Manchester Communists in
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Bookmarks Publications The Revival Of Resistance: The 2022-3 strikes,
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Daraja Press October 1917 Revolution: A Century Later
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Brill Schoningh Gudrun Ensslin: Die Geschichte Einer
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Brill U Schoningh War and Communism: The Violent Consequences of
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Books on Demand Afroasiaten Fokus
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V & R Unipress GmbH Die EntPolitisierung der KunstwissenschaftDePoliticising Art Studies
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Canut Publishers A Marxist Reading of Young Baudrillard.
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British Academy Red Strains Music and Communism Outside the
Book SynopsisThe end of global communism has erased from memory the prior influence of communist ideology outside of the communist bloc. Many western musicians were involved in communist movements and organisations which often had a decisive impact upon their music. This book recalls the meeting of music and communism in societies outside of a communist state.Table of ContentsI. MUSICIANS' PERSPECTIVES; II. TO 1960; III. FROM 1960
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The University of Chicago Press Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union A
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The University of Chicago Press Sartre and Marxist Existentialism
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The University of Chicago Press Marxs Dream From Capitalism to Communism
Book SynopsisRockmore rescues Marx from Marxism, treating the man's ideas separately from what was later made of them and bringing a refreshingly balanced approach to both.
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The University of Chicago Press Knowledge and Class A Marxian Critique of
Book SynopsisIntense debates in recent decades have provoked major new directions in Marxist theory. Earlier reductionist notions of knowledge, dialectics, contradiction, class, and capitalism have been challenged and profoundly transformed.
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Peoples Health
Book SynopsisA long-overdue historical account of Maoist public health initiatives, detailing the ways they were experienced and their global impact.Trade Review"Zhou Xun is to be commended. The People's Health is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the often-unforeseeable consequences of political planning and social engineering." Paul U. Unschuld, Charité, Medical University Berlin and author of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation“Zhou’s richly evidenced work enhances our understanding of the intricate relationship between medicine, society and the state and thereby our understanding of contemporary China. Scholars and readers interested in modern Chinese history and public health in China would find this book particularly helpful.” Europe-Asia Studies
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McGill-Queen's University Press The Peoples Health
Book SynopsisA long-overdue historical account of Maoist public health initiatives, detailing the ways they were experienced and their global impact.Trade Review"Zhou Xun is to be commended. The People's Health is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the often-unforeseeable consequences of political planning and social engineering." Paul U. Unschuld, Charité, Medical University Berlin and author of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation“Zhou’s richly evidenced work enhances our understanding of the intricate relationship between medicine, society and the state and thereby our understanding of contemporary China. Scholars and readers interested in modern Chinese history and public health in China would find this book particularly helpful.” Europe-Asia Studies
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Columbia University Press Khrushchev
Book SynopsisTwo prominent Soviet dissidents portray Khrushchev in power as a shrewd, complex, decisive, and impetuous innovator, impatient to remedy defects in the Soviet system but carried away by initial successes.
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Columbia University Press LeftWing Melancholia
Book SynopsisUncovering the melancholic tradition of the global left.Trade ReviewLeft-Wing Melancholia is well-written, timely and original. -- Eli Zaretsky, The New School for Social Research Left-Wing Melancholia is a path breaking work that combines history and political theory with a concise, richly analytical, exciting narrative. Enzo Traverso redefines our understanding of the current regimes of temporality-a sorrowful transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century-and challenges historians and critical theorists alike to think beyond the standard binaries between history and memory, revolution and defeat, and melancholy and politics. In other words, this book is a gem. -- Federico Finchelstein, The New School for Social Research Marvelously learned and gorgeously poetic, Left-Wing Melancholia is a transcendent masterpiece of the Marxist imagination. Each engrossing chapter provides a tour-de-force of trenchant observations and lucid argumentation about the melancholic landscape of socialist memory. Intricately constructed with acrobatic prose, electric compressions, and magisterial assuredness, Traverso's scholarly milestone synthesizes an ambitious spectrum of interventions into the revolutionary aspirations and defeats of the twentieth century that is historically engaging, eminently readable, and pressingly pertinent. -- Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English Literature and American Culture, University of Michigan According to Freud, mourning is differentiated from melancholia in its working through grief by acknowledging the irreparable loss of a love object. If so, should the contemporary Left finally concede the failure of its dreams of revolutionary redemption? Or, and this is the gamble of Enzo Traverso's provocative new book, is it better to remain defiantly melancholic in the hope that those dreams may still be realized? Drawing on a lifetime of immersion in the history of modern European culture and politics, he provides future progressive movements a glimmer of hope that the dialectic of defeat may not yet be history's final word. -- Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley With Left-Wing Melancholia, Enzo Traverso provides us with a timely and learned meditation on the politics of grief, mourning, and historical loss. Yet, in the tradition of Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch, Traverso also instructs us on how the experience of loss can simultaneously generate heretofore untapped repositories of social hope. Left-Wing Melancholia is both an exhilarating work of intellectual synthesis as well as a pathbreaking study in cultural history. -- Richard Wolin, author of Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption In this wide-ranging, conceptually rich, nuanced and thoughtful meditation, Enzo Traverso takes stock of the current historical moment as marking a fundamental historical and cultural crisis for the Left. The overarching trajectory of struggles oriented toward an emancipatory future that characterized and motivated movements in the past two centuries has been fundamentally broken, resulting in a profound melancholia. Taking inspiration from heterodox critical responses to the darkness enveloping Europe in 1940, Traverso seeks to uncover trace elements of a new utopian imaginary, as a leap without guarantees, a melancholy wager. -- Moishe Postone, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Haunting Pasts Without Utopias 1. The Culture of Defeat 2. Marxism and Memory 3. Melancholy Images 4. Bohemia: Between Melancholy and Revolution 5. Marxism and the West 6. Adorno and Benjamin: Letters at Midnight in the Century 7. Synchronic Times: Walter Benjamin and Daniel Bensaid Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Show Trial
Book SynopsisThomas Doherty tells the story of the 1947 hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. Show Trial is a character-driven inquiry into how the HUAC hearings ignited the Hollywood blacklist, providing a gripping new history of one of the most influential events of the postwar era.Trade ReviewThomas Doherty’s fans, of whom I am one, know he is a first-rate film historian with a sharp eye for political theater as well as a stylish writer with a knack for turning a phrase. Show Trial gives a thorough, well-contextualized, clear-eyed, and witty account of the 1947 HUAC “Hollywood Ten” hearings, full of pithy characterizations and choice bits of business. -- J. Hoberman, author of An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold WarThomas Doherty’s Show Trial is a uniquely pragmatic history of the Hollywood Blacklist—a big book on a big topic that ruthlessly defies and confounds orthodoxy at every turn. No book in print provides a fuller accounting of the hearings themselves. And no author to date gives his readers so much room to appreciate and understand who said what and why. -- Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los AngelesDoherty is one of the best, if not the best, writers in the American studies world today, and has produced an excellent book that will command a great deal of attention. Show Trial sheds new light on the story of the Hollywood Ten and HUAC and does it in fresh and exciting ways. One of the book’s greatest strengths is that it stays away from familiar academic debates that focus heavily on politics and instead tells a character-driven story using quotes from a wide variety of contemporaneous participants. Doherty places the personalities of the era—left and right—on center stage. This is easily the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of HUAC and the Hollywood Ten to date, and I predict it will become the book to read on this topic. -- Steven Ross, author of Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and AmericaIlluminating. . . . With accessible prose and astute academic insight, Doherty shows us that both the studios and the Hollywood Ten were victims of HUAC. His Show Trial is likely to become the standard authority on the genesis of the Hollywood blacklist. -- Christopher Yogerst * The Washington Post *Deeply absorbing, expertly researched, and thoroughly entertaining. -- Noah Isenberg * The New Republic *[Doherty] brings fresh scepticism to the many self-serving myths that have encrusted the tale. . . . It is impossible to read Show Trial without thinking about its relevance to the current situation in America. The country is again faced with a resurgence of nativism, racism and isolationism (ironically, it is now progressives who are warning about nefarious Russian influence) and a culture of believing figures in the public eye to be guilty until proven innocent. One can only hope for another pendulum swing, such as the one Thomas Doherty, in this engaging study, demonstrates happened over the Hollywood blacklist. -- Phillip Lopate * Times Literary Supplement *A thorough and lively chronicle of a shameful episode in American political and entertainment history. * Kirkus Reviews *A riveting, exhaustive look at the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee investigation into Communists in the film industry. . . . In the current era of legislative upheaval, Doherty’s vital, impressive history feels both relevant and urgent. * Publishers Weekly *Written with breathtaking concision and all the intrigue of a spy novel, Doherty’s account of the 1947 House Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC) hearing frames the alleged subversion of Hollywood by Communists as the mirror image of the Moscow Trials. -- Carrie Rickey * Film Quarterly *A shameful interlude in American history highly relevant to today’s political divisions. * Booklist *The historian Thomas Doherty explains in yet another expertly crafted book on American movie history, that the combination of Hollywood and communism has always made for a great show. * Journal of American History *Engrossing. . . . The world suffers no shortage of books about the blacklist, but Show Trial stands out for telling its story without grinding axes. -- Jesse Walker * Reason *Doherty thoroughly chronicles the HUAC circus, with its parade of well-known stars—both defiant (screenwriters Dalton Trumbo) and reluctant (Humphrey Bogart)—and accusers, such as Rep. J. Parnell Thomas. . . . For readers who appreciate both Hollywood's golden age and the postwar politics that animated it. * Library Journal *Doherty proves there are still a few surprises, even after recent revisionist accounts exposed deeper ties than previously known between the Hollywood Ten and their Soviet controllers. In his fascinating Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, Doherty doesn’t romanticize the Ten or try to justify the excesses of HUAC. Instead, he highlights a lesser-known aspect of the hearings: the dilemma of Hollywood centrists and liberals squeezed between the extremists on both sides. Like anti-Trump conservatives today, anti-Communist liberals in late 1940s Hollywood found that the middle could be a very lonely place. -- Mark Horowitz * Commentary *A lively and highly readable account. . . . Show Trial provides a vivid picture of an episode in US history that, for a barely credible mixture of political ugliness and downright farce, has rarely been equalled. Or at least, not until recently. -- Philip Kemp * Sight & Sound *Show Trial is a solid piece of reportage on a specific event that had shattering results. . . . We’ve all read accounts of this fateful showdown between Washington and Hollywood, but never in such depth or with such well-informed commentary. -- Leonard MaltinA difficult book to summarize, Show Trial reflects a lot of hard work and has interesting content almost page by page. The fresh research is fascinating, much of it from recently released HUAC documents revealing (partly) what went on backstage of the extravaganza. -- Patrick McGilligan * Cineaste *Show Trial may not be the final word on HUAC and Hollywood but it will be the must-cite source wherever academic research encounters the HUAC and Hollywood nexus, especially concerning the year of 1947. -- Michael Kitson * Senses of Cinema *Doherty's numerous biographical asides enhance the readability of his work while providing much-needed nuance regarding a complicated period of American history. * Choice *General readers will enjoy the rich anecdotal material and the bright and breezy style of Doherty's work. Scholars will also find in the narrative and the sources the raw materials of future work. * Historian *An excellent introduction to the topic for a younger generation who may not have known that the Trump era is not the first in U.S. history to play fast and loose with the Constitution. -- Jan-Christopher Horak * Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History *Table of ContentsProgram NotesThanks and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPart I. Backstories1. How the Popular Front Became Unpopular2. Hollywood’s War Record3. The Preservation of American Ideals4. The Magic of a Hollywood Dateline5. Smearing Hollywood with the Brush of CommunismPart II. On Location in Washington6. Showtime7. Lovefest8. Friendlies, Cooperative and Uncooperative9. Hollywood’s Finest10. Doldrums11. Crashing Page 112. Contempt13. $64 Questions and No Answers14. Jewish Questions15. The Curtain DropsPart III. Backfire16. The Waldorf and Other Declarations17. Blacklists and Casualty Lists18. Not Only VictimsA Bibliographical NoteNotesIndex
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University of Illinois Press CyberMarx
Book SynopsisAssesses the relevance of Marxism in the information age. This book maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities.Trade Review"An outstanding survey of various forms of electronic and political activism that have challenged and even successfully subverted existing technologies; this information is worthy of a volume of its own. This book is a welcome antidote to the dominant voices of business and government, which claim that virtually every aspect of life must succumb to market forces. Dyer-Witheford succeeds in making complex ideas understandable without oversimplification. Required reading for anyone interested in the implications of new information technologies for capitalism and work." - Choice "An excellent introduction to the political theory of the 'antiglobalization' protests... The book's bibliography is quite exhaustive... [It's] clarity of presentation makes it quite useful for academic classes in the social and cultural studies of information and communication, in classes on the political economy of information, for classes in knowledge management, critical management studies, history of information and history of communication." -- Ron Day, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ADVANCE PRAISE "An excellent study... Those interested in understanding the vast changes we are undergoing and how we can use technologies to create a better future should find Dyer-Witheford's work extremely useful."-Douglas Kellner, author of Television and the Crisis of Democracy
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Indiana University Press Children of Communism
Book SynopsisA fascinating read on the power of youth protest, Children of Communism shows what life was like for the first generation to have been born under communism and how one evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed lives.Trade ReviewRelying on oral histories and other primary sources, Horváth explores how the Communist regime manipulated state-sponsored tabloid media during the trial to legitimize its own role as guardians of public safety and to portray the youth as social deviants who were instruments of Western-style decadence. . . . Highly recommended. -- C. P. Vesei * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Hippie Stroll2. The Trial: Casting3. How Hooligans Are Made4. Youth Protection5. The Police and Uses of the Urban Space6. The Socialist Tabloid Press7. Protest in a Diary8. Girl in the Gang9. MemoryConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Beethoven in Russia
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSkinner's survey of Beethoven reception in Russia from the 1790s through 2010 is constructed from an astonishing compendium of details compiled over decades of research and reflection. The adoption of the heroic Beethoven for revolutionary and communist purposes—an adoption the West believes to be a perversion—makes sense not as abuse but as a logical outgrowth of the Romantic idealization of the composer. Ultimately, Skinner provokes us into re-examining our own 'Beethovens.' -- William Meredith, emeritus director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State UniversityTable of ContentsYouTube PlaylistPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrelude: Music in the Tsar's GulagPart I: RUSSIA BEFORE 19171. Encountering Beethoven: Salon and Concert Hall2. Engaging Beethoven: Writer and Critic3. Evaluating Beethoven: From Freude to Freiheit4. Embracing Beethoven: Concert Hall and RiverbankPart II: RUSSIA AFTER 19175. Beethoven as Revolutionary: Red Star Rising6. Beethoven as Icon: Cult and Canon7. Beethoven as Beethoven: The End of IdeologyPostlude: Project Gulag 2010TablesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Beethoven in Russia
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSkinner's survey of Beethoven reception in Russia from the 1790s through 2010 is constructed from an astonishing compendium of details compiled over decades of research and reflection. The adoption of the heroic Beethoven for revolutionary and communist purposes—an adoption the West believes to be a perversion—makes sense not as abuse but as a logical outgrowth of the Romantic idealization of the composer. Ultimately, Skinner provokes us into re-examining our own 'Beethovens.' -- William Meredith, emeritus director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State UniversityTable of ContentsYouTube PlaylistPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrelude: Music in the Tsar's GulagPart I: RUSSIA BEFORE 19171. Encountering Beethoven: Salon and Concert Hall2. Engaging Beethoven: Writer and Critic3. Evaluating Beethoven: From Freude to Freiheit4. Embracing Beethoven: Concert Hall and RiverbankPart II: RUSSIA AFTER 19175. Beethoven as Revolutionary: Red Star Rising6. Beethoven as Icon: Cult and Canon7. Beethoven as Beethoven: The End of IdeologyPostlude: Project Gulag 2010TablesBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Looking Forward
Book SynopsisIn Looking Forward, Marifeli Perez-Stable and her colleagues imagine Cuba''s future after the poof momentJorge I. Domínguez''s vivid phrasewhen the current regime will no longer exist. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to all interested readers, this volume does not try to predict how and when the Castro regime will end, but instead considers the possible consequences of change. Each chapterprepared by an expert in the fieldtakes up a basic issue: politics, the military, the legal system, civil society, gender, race, economic transition strategies, social policy and social welfare, corruption, the diaspora, memory, ideology and culture, and U.S.-Cuba relations. The author of each chapter considers three questions: How have other new democracies handled the basic issue in question? How might Cuba''s unique conditions affect this area in transition? What are the likely outcomes and alternatives for a Cuba in transition? Designed with students, policy-makersTrade Review“This is a collection of articles on post-Castro Cuba that ranges from classical transition studies . . . to issues closer to the microphysics of power. . . . All of these are essential to understanding a regime that made a vast symbolic investment to consolidate its power.” —Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment“Informed by the experiences of socialist transitions in eastern Europe and East Asia, leading experts on Cuba offer stimulating speculations on post-Castro scenarios . . . [and] includes a number of outstanding chapters. Carmelo Mesa-Lago suggests plausible ways that a post-Castro Cuba could achieve greater economic efficiency without sacrificing social equity, and Daniel Erikson offers striking insights on how to escape the corruption curse. And the always eloquent William LeoGrande provocatively suggests that Miami's hard-line Cuba lobby may prove to be a paper tiger when the moment for normalization finally arrives.” —Foreign Affairs“Contributing experts address particular issues, which include politics, the military, the legal system, civil society, gender, race, economic transition strategies, social policy/social welfare, corruption, the diaspora, memory, ideology and culture, and relations between the United States and Cuba.” —Hispanic Link Weekly Report“Writings that speculate on Cuba's economic, political, and social transition after Fidel Castro's death.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education“Perez-Stable presents 12 essays that explore the possible paths of a post-Castro Cuba with reference to the extent literature on democratic transition. . . . The topics addressed include political institutions, civil-military relations, constitutional change, civil society, gender equality, race and cultural politics, economic transition, social policy and social welfare, corruption, the émigré community, ideology and memory, and relations with the United States.” —Research Book News“This book focuses on what the authors believe to be the inevitable transition to a democratic regime in Cuba after Fidel and places their estimates of what that transition might be in a comparative framework, making particular reference to the transitions to democracy in Latin America and to the transitions from authoritarian socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, China, and Vietnam. All in all this is an excellent collection and it should be on the reading list of anyone interested in Cuba.” —The Americas“The essays are surprisingly far from theoretical but essentially practical and highly accessible. Early in the revolution, Castro liked to say that Cuba represented socialism with a human face. Well, that is so with the essays in this volume. Whatever happens to the island, this book will serve as a guide to readers trying to understand social developments and political transformation in post-Castro Cuba.” —Multicultural Review“This is the most important book about Cuba to appear in a generation. A group of ‘not-your-usual-émigrés’ and other experts who have taught us most of what we already know about contemporary Cuba have performed an extraordinary service to the policy and academic communities—and their patria—in imagining Cuba's future after Fidel. Building on their diverse expertise in politics, economic reform, civil-military relations, social policy, race, gender, and cultural relations, and drawing from models around the world of regime transitions gone wrong and right, their compelling essays project Cuba's recent past onto its immediate future and lay a blueprint for a free, democratic, and just society. There is quite simply no book like it.” —Frances Hagopian, Michael Grace II Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame“There are few if any serious, balanced, and comprehensive appraisals of the various futures open to Cuba upon the death of Fidel Castro. For those interested in these matters, this book is a treasure trove of data, analysis, and innovative thinking about Cuba’s precarious future. Its originality lies first in the fact that each chapter offers detailed descriptions of processes and lessons from other Latin American and socialist contexts that shed light on what is likely to happen in Cuba. At the same time, these chapters manage to give credit to the unique and exceptional nature of Cuban history, nationalism, and socialism so that lessons are not applied blindly with no eye to their applicability in the Cuban context.” —Ted Henken, Baruch College“When Fidel Castro is gone, Cuba will change. Whether change is peaceful or violent —or for good or ill—willl depend on whether we take the lessons offered in Perez-Stable´s collection of essays from the very best experts on Cuba. If there is to be a happy ending, then Looking Forward offers the best map yet on how to get there.“ —Ambassador (retired) Vicki J. Huddleston, former Principal Officer of the United States Interests Section in Havana, Cuba 1999–2002
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin An AntiBolshevik Alternative The White Movement
Book SynopsisThe traditional narrative of the Russian Civil War is one of revolution against counterrevolution, Bolshevik Reds against Tsarist Whites. Liudmila Novikova convincingly demonstrates, however, that the struggle was not between a Communist future and a Tsarist past; instead, it was a bloody fight among diverse factions of a modernizing postrevolutionary state.
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University of Wisconsin Press Russian Style Performing Gender Power and
Book SynopsisBy connecting gendered and sexualized citizenship to developments in Russian popular culture, Julie Cassiday argues that heteronormativity and homophobia became a kind of politicized style under Putin’s leadership.Trade Review“A brilliant, entertaining work of scholarship that sheds light on some of the most important phenomena in contemporary Russian politics and mass culture. Using style as her central concept, Cassiday brings together many seemingly disparate examples from mass media, pop culture, and politics in a way that is truly enlightening.”—Eliot Borenstein, New York University “Well conceived, researched, and executed, Russian Style makes an invaluable contribution to the field and to broader discussions of gender, sexuality, and the body in contemporary popular culture. Bringing to the forefront questions of citizenship and national identity, Cassiday thinks through the changes (political, ideological, sexual) that have taken place over the past two decades in Putin’s Russia. ”—Lilya Kaganovsky, UCLATable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1. A Genealogy of Post-Soviet Pop Performativity Chapter 2. The Soviet Legacy of Traumatized Bodies Chapter 3. Travesti and the Post-Soviet Drag Queen Chapter 4. Queer Performativity in Putin’s Russia Chapter 5. Post-Soviet Post-Feminism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press Enemies Within the Gates
Book SynopsisA documentary history telling the story of how the Comintern (Communist International) participated in and was ultimately destroyed by the Stalinist repression in the late 1930s. The author analyzes the Comintern's roles as agent, instrument and victim of terror using archival documents.Trade Review"This book is about an extraordinary group of people at an extraordinary time caught up in a life and death struggle. The documents show bluntly and brutally how the Russian Revolution under Stalin ate its own children." Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago
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Yale University Press The Communist Manifesto
Book SynopsisIt is hard to imagine a book, essay or pamphlet outside of the Bible that has been more influential, and widely read, than Marx and Engels' "Communist Manifesto". Part of the "Rethinking the Western Tradition" series, this edition of the "Manifesto" features essays that address its relevance in the post-1989, post-Cold War world.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press In Contempt
Book SynopsisOffers a faithful, factual testament to the enduring quality of patriotic dissent in America’s evolving democracy - and a loving reconstruction of what it meant to be labelled ‘unAmerican’ for defending the Constitution.Table of Contents Foreword Introduction:Red Diapers Chapter One:A Knock at the Door Chapter Two:Will Not/Cannot Chapter Three:Surprised and Shocked Chapter Four:Lacking Contrition Chapter Five:Snowball in Hell Chapter Six:In Lieu of “Ability” Chapter Seven:Uncompromising Independence Chapter Eight:Under the Velvet Glove Chapter Nine:Not Fine for Yellin Afterword
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University of California Press Stalinism for All Seasons
Book SynopsisPresents history of the Romanian Communist Party. This title traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Why a History of Romanian Communism? 1. Understanding National Stalinism: Legacies of Ceausescu's Socialism 2. A Messianic Sect: The Underground Romanian Communist Party, 1921--1944 3. The Road to Absolute Power: From Quasi-Monarchy to People's Democracy, 1944--1948 4. Stalinism Unbound, 1948--1956 5. Aftershocks of the the CPSU's Twentieth Congress, 1957--1960 6. Opposing Khrushchevism: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Emergence of National Communism, 1960--1965 7. Ceausescu's Dynastic Communism, 1965--1989 Epilogue: The RCP's Afterlife: Where Did All The Members Go? 1989--2000 Appendix: The Romanian Communist Party's Leadership: A Biographical Roster Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German
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University of California Press Cinema Off Screen Moviegoing in Socialist China
Book SynopsisAt a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultural role of film exhibition, demonstrating that film exhibition can produce meaning in itself apart from the films being shown. Cinema Off Screen advances the idea that cinema takes place off screen as much as on screen by exploring film exhibition in China from the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. Drawing on original archival research, interviews, and audience recollections, Cinema Off Screen decenters the filmic text and offers a study of institutional operations and lived experiences. Chenshu Zhou details how the screening space, media technology, and the human body mediate encounters with cinema in ways that have not been fully recognized, opening new conceptual avenues for rethinking the ever-changing institution of cinema.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: "Projecting Cinema" 1. Space 2. Labor 3. Multimedia 4. Atmosphere 5. Discomfort 6. Screen Postscript: Recognizing Cinema Appendix: Interviewee Profiles Character Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The View from Inside
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University of California Press Iran
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University of California Press The Technical Intelligentsia and the East German Elite
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University of California Press Accidental Holy Land
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Yan'an is China's revolutionary holy land, the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary research and numerous field trips to the region, Joseph W. Esherick's book examines the origins of the Communist revolution in Northwest China, from the political, social, and demographic changes of the Qing dynasty (16441911), to the intellectual ferment of the early Republic, the guerrilla movement of the 1930s, and the replacement of the local revolutionary leadership after Mao and the Center arrived in 1935. In Accidental Holy Land, Esherick compels us to consider the Chinese Revolution not as some inevitable peasant response to poverty and oppression, but as the contingent product of local, national, and international events in a constantly changing milieu.Trade Review"This authoritative account of the pre-Yan’an period should be required for any serious student of China’s socialist revolution and will appeal to a general readership interested in the serpentine route the Communist Party took to power." * Pacific Affairs *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Marxist Literary Theory A Reader
Book SynopsisMarxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading Marxism, literature, theory, and the social possibilities of writing.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Terry Eagleton:. Introduction. Part II: Drew Milne. 1. Marx and Engels. 2. Leo Tolstoy and His Epoch (1911): V. I. Lenin. 3. The Formalist School of Peotry and Marxism: Leon Trotsky. 4. Corcerning the Relationship of the Basis and Superstructures: V. N. Volosinov. 5. Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia (1929). Addendum to 'The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire' (1938): Walter Benjamin. 6. Marxism and Poetry (1935): Ernst Bloch. 7. English Poets: The Period of Primitive Accumulation (1937): Christopher Caudwell. 8. The Relativity of Literary Value (1937): Alick West. 9. A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949): Bertolt Brecht. 10. The Tasks of Brechtian Criticism (1956): Roland Barthes. 11. The Ideology of Modernism (1957): Georg Lukacs. 12. The Semantic Dialectic (1960): Galvano Della Volpe. 13. Commitment (1962) T. W. Adorno. 14. Introduction to the Problems of a Sociology of the Novel (1963): Lucien Goldmann. 15. The Objective Spirit (1972): Jean-Paul Sartre. 16. Tragedy and Revolution (1966), Literature (1977): Raymond Williams. 17. A Letter on Art in Reply to Andre Daspre (1966): Louis Althusser. 18. On Literature as an Ideological Form (1974): Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey. 19. Towards a Science of the Text (1960): Terry Eagleton. 20. Women's Writing: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, Aurora Leigh (1978): The Marxist-Feminist Collective. 21. On Interpretation (1981): Fredric Jameson. 22. Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory' (1987): Aijaz Ahmad. 23. Can the Subaltern Speak?(1988): Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 24. The Materialism of Cultural Nationalism: Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God (1989): Chida Amuta. 25. The Jargon of Postmodernity (1989): Alex Callinicos. Index.
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Wiley The Communist Movement since 1945
Book Synopsisaeo An up--to--date critical overview of communism in the period since World War II. aeo Offers the first comparative assessment of world communism since the disintegration of the USSR. aeo Examines the tension between communism as a set of ideas and communism as a form of economic and social organization.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Movement's Turning Point. 2. Cold War and Colonial Revolution. 3. Destalinisation. 4.'Peaceful Co-Existence' and Schism. 5. Orthodox Communism 1963-1970. 6. Indian Summer 1970-1981. 7. The Amazed Evangelist. Biographical Notes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Maps.
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