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Cornell University Press Negotiating Socialism in Rural China: Mao,
Book SynopsisThis is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953, the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune Movement in 1958 and was followed by the worst famine in human history. Surprisingly, however, its beginnings are poorly understood and often regarded as Mao Zedong's imposition from above. This book challenges the conventional wisdom and explores how the national policy emerged from complex bureaucratic interactions among central, regional, local governments, and peasants.
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Cornell University Press Negotiating Socialism in Rural China: Mao,
Book SynopsisThis is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953, the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the countryside toward socialism. It led to the Utopian Commune Movement in 1958 and was followed by the worst famine in human history. Surprisingly, however, its beginnings are poorly understood and often regarded as Mao Zedong's imposition from above. This book challenges the conventional wisdom and explores how the national policy emerged from complex bureaucratic interactions among central, regional, local governments, and peasants.
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West Virginia University Press The Politics of Lists: Bureaucracy and Genocide
Book SynopsisScholars from a number of disciplines have, especially since the advent of the war on terror, developed critical perspectives on a cluster of related topics in contemporary life: militarization, surveillance, policing, biopolitics (the relation between state power and physical bodies), and the like. James A. Tyner, a geographer who has contributed to this literature with several highly regarded books, here turns to the bureaucratic roots of genocide, building on insight from Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, and others to better understand the Khmer Rouge and its implications for the broader study of life, death, and power.The Politics of Lists analyzes thousands of newly available Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves. How, Tyner asks, is recordkeeping implicated in the creation of political authority? What is the relationship between violence and bureaucracy? How can documents, as an anonymous technology capable of conveying great force, be understood in relation to newer technologies like drones? What does data create and what does it destroy? Through a theoretically informed, empirically grounded study of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus, Tyner shows that lists and telegrams have often proved as deadly as bullet and bombs.Trade ReviewA well-written and engaging study of why we must grapple with the bureaucratic culture of violence. I appreciate how Tyner moves between past and present—constantly reminding the reader of why the Cambodian genocide has important resonance beyond its own horrors."" - Ian Shaw, author of Predator Empire: Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance""Tyner has written an important book on the biopolitics of bureaucracy, archives, and lists. His novel concept of necrobureaucracy as a descriptor of the Khmer Rouge regime offers a new way of understanding the relationship between violence and state administration. An original and far-reaching piece of scholarship."" - Oliver Belcher, Durham UniversityTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Emerging from the Shadows 2. A Tale of Two Lists 3. Into the Darkness 4. Mortal Accountings 5. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Why So Easily . . . Some Family Reasons for the
Book SynopsisA famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective. Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected sociological essay, written in the history-making years of 1989 and 1990, is available for the first time in English. The essay tells the story of a despotic Socialist state expropriating the family (and with it the private sphere of life) only to be colonized by the very thing it expropriated forty years later. The essay plunges the reader into the pivotal time of the Velvet Revolution and provides valid explanations for the grassroots causes of the old regime’s downfall, examining the private aspirations and strategies of highly disparate groups of nameless social actors of the old regime that eventually sapped almost everyone of any interest in keeping the regime afloat.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface to the third editionPreface to the second editionWhat we didn’t know ten years agoPreface to the first editionChapter OneWhy so late?The Catch in the Functional Analysis of the Family(An essay written in spring 1989)Chapter TwoHow could it have happened so smoothly?Chapter ThreeNow what?Postscript Bibliography
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Tulika Books Questioning Globalized Militarism
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Tulika Books Interpreting the World to Change It – Essays for
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NIAS Press Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai & The Evolution Of The
Book SynopsisAnalyses the power struggles within the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party between 1931, when several Party leaders left Shanghai and entered the Jiangxi Soviet, and 1945, by which time Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai had emerged as senior CCP leaders. In 1949 they established the People’s Republic of China and ruled it for several decades.Based on new Chinese sources, this study challenges long-established views that Mao Zedong became CCP leader during the Long March (1934–35) and that by 1935 the CCP was independent of the Comintern in Moscow. The result is a critique not only of official Chinese historiography but also of Western (especially US) scholarship that all future histories of the rise of the CCP and power struggles within the PRC will need to take into account.Table of ContentsThe CCP leadership and return of the '28 Bolsheviks; the evolution of a new party leadership; the transfer to Jiangxi and struggle to power; leadership struggles during the Long March; relations between the CCP and the Comintern; the Yan'an Rectification Movement and evolution of a new CCP leadership.
£19.96
HarperCollins Publishers Useful Idiots
Book SynopsisThe author attacks American liberals as naive and disingenuous in their dealings with the world, accusing them of rewriting history to portray themselves as "Cold Warriors" along with conservatives.
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Lulu.com Lenin, The Organic Centralist: Organic Centralism
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Almuzara Historia del Comunismo
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Editorial Anagrama DEMASIADO TARDE PARA DESPERTAR
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Libros de La Catarata Anarquía dinamita y revolución social.
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Ediciones de Intervencin Cultural El valor del socialismo
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Sanage Publishing House LLP Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Popular Movements to Rebellion The Naxalite Decade
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Taylor & Francis Medical Memories and Experiences in Postwar East Germany Treatments of the Past Routledge Studies in the History of Science Technology and Medicine
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Fight for Chinas Future Civil Society vs the Chinese Communist Party
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Taylor & Francis Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Chinese Communist Party in Action Consolidating Party Rule China Policy Series
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Taylor & Francis Money and Capital
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Taylor & Francis Social Classes in Marxist Theory
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Taylor & Francis Social Classes in Marxist Theory
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Taylor & Francis On Political Obligation 26 Routledge Library Editions Political Thought and Political Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On Political Obligation
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990. The individual's obligation to obey the law, the state and the government is a fundamental part of contemporary political theory. The contributors to this volume, drawn from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, political science and law, take a fresh look at the dilemmas of political obligation. They discuss the extent to which we should allow the need for conformity to override individual liberties, and ask whether individualism is indeed feasible without a highly developed sense of the public interest' or the common good. The contrast between individualism and communitarianism is examined throughout the book. The contributors also look at the various means through which the state can coerce or persuade the individual to be obedient. The emphasis throughout this collection is on the substantive problems themselves, rather than on the way these issues have been addressed in the history of political thought. The book offers a number of differTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Political Obligation and the Public Interest A. J. M. Milne 2. The Commitment to the Common Good Gerald E. Gaus 3. Political Obligation: Individualism and Communitarianism John Charvet 4. Consent and Community Leslie Green 5. Obligation: Societal, Political, and Legal Tom Campbell 6. The Moral Obligation to Obey the Law Paul Harris 7. The Character of Political Allegiance in a System of Rights Rex Martin 8. State Authority and Legitimation Kai Nielsen; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to NationStates and Beyond
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Taylor & Francis Morals and Politics The Ethics of Revolution 2 Routledge Library Editions Political Thought and Political Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism Law and the Failure of Revolution
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking Israel and Palestine
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Redefining Propaganda in Modern China The Mao Era and its Legacies Routledge Studies in Modern History
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Taylor & Francis Spinoza in Soviet Philosophy A Series of Essays 4 Routledge Library Editions 17th Century Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Vanguardism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Marxs Capital after 150 Years
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Taylor & Francis Epistemontology in SpinozaMarxFreudLacan
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Taylor & Francis Corporate Policing Yellow Unionism and Strikebreaking 18901930
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Socialism and Legal History The Histories and Historians of Law in Socialist East Central Europe Routledge Research in Legal History
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Taylor & Francis Marxism
Book SynopsisThis introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marxâs ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies.Karl Marxâs ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in twenty-first century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles.Students taking courses in Media, Culture and Society; Communication Theory; Media Economics; Political Communication; and Cultural Studies will find Fuchs' concise introduction an essential guide to Marx.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Dialectic 3. Materialism: The Base/Superstructure-Problem 4. Commodities, Capital, Capitalism 5. Labour and Surplus-Value 6. The Working Class 7. Alienation 8. Means of Communication and the General Intellect 9. Ideology 10. Socialism and Communism 11. Class Struggles
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Taylor & Francis The Prison House of Alienation
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Taylor & Francis Marx at 200
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of NonViolent Extremism
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