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Taylor & Francis Ltd Party Development and Democratic Change in Postcommunist Europe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Russia After Communism
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Taylor & Francis The Intellectual Origins of Modernity
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Taylor & Francis Boundaries of Utopia Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin
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Taylor & Francis Marxism Religion and Ideology Themes from David McLellan Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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Taylor & Francis Bulgaria under Communism
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Taylor & Francis Museum Representations of Maoist China
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World
Book SynopsisAntonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the study of classical antiquity. The collection of essays engages with Greek and Roman history, literature, society, and culture, offering a range of perspectives and approaches building on Gramsci's theoretical insights, especially from his Prison Notebooks. The volume investigates both Gramsci's understanding and reception of the ancient world, including his use of ancient sources and modern historiography, and the viability of applying some of his key theoretical insights to the study of Greek and Roman history and literature. The chapters deal with the ideas of hegemony, passive revolution, Caesarism, and the role of intellectuals in society, offering a complex and diverse exploration of this intersection.With its fascinating mixture of topics, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of classicTrade Review"The authors and editors of this volume persuasively contend that this alertness to the challenges of conjunctural moments in world history that was a characteristic of the great Italian Marxist is equally insightful when applied to the ancient world. Connected to this innovative perspective is an equally enlightening examination of how Gramsci’s thoughts throughout his political career were affected by his own knowledge and understanding of the ancient world." -Sean Ledwith, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books"Capita più raramente, insomma, di vedere una grande casa editrice pubblicare un’opera sul mondo greco o romano in cui sia dichiarata, e coerentemente sviluppata, la “epistemologia” cui l’autore si ispira, ovverosia i fondamenti teorici in base ai quali vengono ripresi in esame determinati aspetti della cultura antica. Eppure è soltanto così, sulla base di robusti modelli di pensiero, che la ricerca e la comprensione del passato può non solo progredire, ma rendersi nuova e interessante. Colpisce dunque vedere una casa editrice importante, come Routledge, che pubblica un volume in cui le categorie (gramsciane) che animano le singole ricerche sono dichiarate e sviluppate." - Maurizio Bettini, La Repubblica [It is much rarer to see a large publisher releasing a work about the Greek and Roman world whose authors’ "epistemology" (i.e. the theoretical foundation through which certain aspects of ancient culture are observed) is declared and consistently developed. Yet it is only in this way, based on robust thought patterns, that research and understanding of the past can not only progress, but become new and interesting. It is therefore striking seeing an important publisher, such as Routledge, releasing a volume in which the (Gramscian) categories animating the specific pieces of research are declared and developed.]"[This book] gathers a miscellany of fourteen essays by scholars who share an interest in exploring possible links between the Italian thinker’s works and Classical Studies[...]presenting a variety of approaches that can be easily summarised as two main paths of analysis, which we may identify respectively as a historio-graphical and an applicational approach.Although they all start from the same methodological outlook, each essay con>centrates on a different aspect of the ancient world addressed by Gramscian works, either directly or indirectly. "-Eugenia Vitello, thersites"All in all, this volume provides an extensive introduction to Gramsci’s thought and its uses in contemporary historical research. However, I think the main strength of this volume is that it does not take Gramsci’s ideas as a static canon, but something that should be used and transformed in order to better describe society and its power structures. It invites reader to improve and engage, which is a wonderful and ambitious suggestion from any volume." - Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Reception of Gramsci’s Thought in Historical and Classical Studies (Emilio Zucchetti); 1. Negotiating Hegemony in Early Greek Poetry (Laura Swift); 2. Upside-down Hegemony? Ideology and Power in Ancient Athens (Mirko Canevaro); 3. Gramsci and Ancient Philosophy: Prelude to a Study (Phillip Sidney Horky); 4. A Gramscian Approach to Ancient Slavery (Kostas Vlassopoulos); 5. The Etruscan Question. An Academic Controversy in the Prison Notebooks (Massimiliano Di Fazio); 6. Polybios and the Rise of Rome. Gramscian Hegemony, Intellectuals and Passive Revolution (Emma Nicholson); 7. Antonio Gramsci Between Ancient and Modern Imperialism (Michele Bellomo); 8. Plebeian Tribunes and Cosmopolitan Intellectuals: Gramsci’s Approach to the Late Roman Republic (Mattia Balbo); 9. Between Caesarism and Cosmopolitanism: Julius Caesar as an Historical Problem in Gramsci (Federico Santangelo); 10. Gramsci and the Roman Cultural Revolution (Christopher Smith); 11. Caesarism as Stasis from Gramsci to Lucan: an "Equilibrium with Catastrophic Prospects" (Elena Giusti); 12. Hegemony in the Roman Principate: Perceptions of Power in Gramsci, Tacitus and Luke (Jeremy Paterson); 13. Gramsci’s View of Late Antiquity: between longue durée and Discontinuity (Dario Nappo); 14. Cultural Hegemonies, ‘NIE-orthodoxy’, and Social Development Models: Classicists’ ‘Organic’ Approaches to Economic History in the Early XXI Century (Cristiano Viglietti); Afterthoughts; 1. The Author as Intellectual? Hints and Thoughts for a Gramscian ‘Re-reading’ of the Ancient Literatures (Anna Maria Cimino); 2. Hegemony, Coercion and Consensus: A Gramscian Approach to Greek Cultural and Political History (Alberto Esu); 3. Hegemony, Ideology, and Ancient History. Notes towards a Development of an Intersectional Framework (Emilio Zucchetti)
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Taylor & Francis Humanism and Terror
Book SynopsisFirst published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror is a vital work of political philosophy by one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. Attempting to understand what he called the dislocated world that followed immediately after the Second World Warincluding his own, divided FranceMerleau-Ponty asks a fundamental question: how did Marxism and humanism come apart?Through a fascinating reading of Arthur Koestler''s famous novel, Darkness at Noon, an allegory of the Stalinist show trials and purges of the 1930s, Merleau-Ponty weighs up the costs of a regime of permanent revolution and false confessions. His profound and controversial point, however, is that the purges were the inevitable outcome of abandoning crucial subjective elements of Marx's theory of history, with the result that humanism is suspended and government is terror.As we again confront the reality of authoritarianism, political polarisation and curtailing of human Table of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition William McBride Author's Preface Part 1: Terror 1. Koestler's Dilemmas 2. Bukharin and the Ambiguity of History 3. Trotsky's Rationalism Part 2: The Humanist Perspective 4. From the Proletarian to the Commissar 5. The Yogi and the Proletarian Conclusion. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Twilight of World Trotskyism
Book SynopsisThe Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world.The book begins this assessment by briefly recapitulating the origins of Trotskyism, as a political current within the communist movement, and elaborating its major elements, before describing the historical development of Trotskyism in the four countries where it has sunk the deepest roots and which house the clear majority of the world's Fourth Internationals: Argentina, Britain, France and the USA. It then proceeds to map the current state of the global Trotskyist movement. Whatever their current size and status, Trotskyist organizations aspire to become mass political parties and lead revolutionary seizures of power. It is therefore appropriate to examine them through the metrics applied to mainstream parties, namely organization, membership and political influence.The author looks at the dynamics of the Trotskyist movement, focusinTable of Contents1. The Origins and Content of Trotskyism 2. A Brief Account of the Four Main Centres of World Trotskyism: Argentina, Britain, France and the USA 3. The Current State of World Trotskyism 4. The Dynamics of World Trotskyism 5. Explaining the Marginality of World Trotskyism 6. The Twilight of World Trotskyism
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Taylor & Francis The Commons
This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities. In particular, The Commons analyses the relations of solidarity and conflict between the commons and public welfare policies, as well as the role the commons can play in the struggle against the global socioecological crisis that is threatening the very future of humanity.Over the past decade, various theories, concepts and political projects connected to the commons have become fundamentally important for social science and numerous social movements around the world. In sociology, economics, political science, history, geography, the law and anthropology, the study of the commons has inspired many important academic innovations. In parallel, community activists, labour unions, ecologists, feminists and cooperativists have discovered in the commons a powerful and thought-provoking toolkit with which to defend
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Taylor & Francis Epistemontology in SpinozaMarxFreudLacan
Book SynopsisA. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marxâs theory of commodity fetishismâfrom A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser, Ã. Balibar, Slavoj ÅiÅek, and othersâto show that in capitalism value is the manifestation of the homology between thought and being, while their other aspectâpowerâis foreclosed and becomes the object of biopower. Using monistic Marxian/Lacanian structuralism as an alternative to dominant models from Plato and Kant to phenomenological accounts, deconstruction, and other contemporary approaches, Kordela expertly argues that Marxâs theory of commodity fetishism is a reformulation of the Spinozian thesis that thought (mind) and things (bodies or extension) are manifestations of one and the same being or substance. Kordelaâs link between Spinoza and Marx shows that being consists of two aspects, value and power, the former leading to structuralist thought, the latter becoming the object of contemporary biopower. Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-FreudTrade Review'In Epistemology in Spinoza, Marx-Freud-Lacan, A. Kiarina Kordela gives us what has been sorely lacking in recent work on biopower: a reflection on how the commodification of self-actualization anchors the current moment of late capitalism. Through a series of joyful readings of Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and Lacan, Kordela opens a perspective not just on biopower, but on our own singular essence irreducible to capitalism's incessant repetition of the same old same old. This is a work to be reckoned with, to be thought about, and above all to be enjoyed.' - Timothy Campbell, Professor of Italian, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University'At a moment when philosophy appears blocked in pointless antinomies, between either constructivism, or new materialism and speculative realism, A. Kiarina Kordela breaks with these antinomies and reveals those seemingly radical opponents as tacit accomplices - or "couples" in Bachelardian sense. Kordela's courageous advance aims for what philosophy can do best: it takes a position, it draws clear lines of demarcation, and it gives a superb overview of the current situation on philosophy's battleground.' - Robert Pfaller, University of Art and Industrial Design, LinzTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Words and Things in the Era of Value, Power, and Biopower 2. Materialist Epistemontology: Marx and Sohn-Rethel with Spinoza and Psychoanalysis 3. Psychoanalysis and Structuralism 4. Dialectics, or Valences of Structuralism 5. Value: The Aesthetic Itinerary from Content to Structure 6. Marx and Psychoanalysis 7. The Other Side of Value: Substance, Labor & Enjoyment, or, Biopolitics According to Spinoza, Marx & Lacan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Japanese Poetry and its Publics
Book Synopsis This book aims to explore precisely how modern Japanese poetry has remained central to public life in both Japan and its former colony of Taiwan.Though classical Japanese poetry has captivated the imagination of Asian studies scholars, little research has been conducted to explore its role in public life as a discourse influential in defining both the modern Japanese empire and contemporary postcolonial negotiations of identity. This book shows how highly visible poetry in regular newspaper columns and blogs have in various historical situations in Japan and colonial Taiwan contested as well as promoted diverse colonial imaginaries. This poetry reflects both contemporary life and traditional poetics with few counterpoints in Western media. Methodologically, this book offers a defense of the public influence of poetry, each chapter enlisting a wide range of social and media theorists from Japan, Europe, and North America to explore specific historical momTable of ContentsIntroduction: Japanese Poetry and its Publics Chapter One: Japanese Imperialism and Poetic Matrices – Conventional and Autopoietic Projections of "Nature," Place, and Labor in Early Colonial TaiwanChapter Two: Transculturation and Extreme Intertextuality—Taiwanese Poets in the New Year’s Day Poetry Pages of Colonial TaiwanChapter Three: Nativist Legacies of Desinicization and Nationalist Sentiment in Poetry During the Second Sino-Japanese WarChapter Four: The Long View of Colonial Regimes: The Taiwan Tanka Association’s Poetry of WitnessChapter Five: Postcolonial Affiliation after 3.11: Hyperobjects and Inter-evental Entanglement in the Taiwan Tanka AssociationChapter Six: Poetry Blogs and Posthuman Archives in Postcolonial TaiwanAppendixIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China Since the Gang of Four
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the Gang of Four'. Was China reverting to a capitalist form of development, and abandoning Mao's policies? Was China's leadership remaining loyal to Mao's strategy but correcting damage done by the Gang of Four'? The essays in this book analyse these questions and illustrate differences in interpretation amongst the post-Mao leadership. Individual chapters deal with disagreements over political line, the role of the CCP, economic policy and industrial management, policy towards the rural sector, controversies over the role of art and literature, the nature and function of the education system and the incorporation of China into the international economy.Table of Contents1. The Politics of Conflict and Compromise Michael Sullivan 2. Non-Revolutionary Vanguard: Transformation of the Chinese Communist Party Graham Young 3. Industrial Development and the Four Modernisations Andrew Watson 4. Rural Policy Bill Brugger 5. The Blooming of a ‘Hundred Flowers’ and the Literature of the ‘Wounded Generation’ Sylvia Chan 6. Education – Why a Reversal? Ronald F. Price 7. China’s Foreign Relations: The Reintegration of China into the World Economy Greg O’Leary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary China
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1977, sets out two models of administration and participation used in Communist China, one worked out by the CCP during the war against Japan and one imported from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. These models have given rise to different policy positions, studied here, and the models provide a framework within which to examine the nature and structure of the CCP, state structures, the army, rural and urban policy, and the incorporation of national minorities.Table of Contents1. From Yenan to Victory (1942-50) 2. From Mass Mobilisation to the Soviet Model (1950-4) 3. The Generalisation of the Yenan Heritage (1955-6) 4. The Great Leap Forward (1957-9) 5. The Years of Calamities (1959-62) 6. The Socialist Education Movement (1962-5) 7. The Cultural Revolution is Launched (September 1965-February 1967) 8. Radical Left and Ultra-Left (March 1967-April 1969) 9. The Tenth Crisis (April 1969-August 1973)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War
Book SynopsisIn mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar expulsions (population transfers') of ethnic Germans from Central Europe in the latter half of the 1940s. Furthermore, this expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria was the sole unilateral act of ethnic cleansing that breached the Iron Curtain. The 1989 ethnic cleansing was followed by an unprecedented return of almost half of the expellees, after the collapse of the Bulgarian communist regime. The return, which partially reversed the effects of this ethnic cleansing, was the first-ever of its kind in history. Despite the unprecedented character of this 1989 expulsion and the subsequent return, not a single research article, let alone a monograph, has been devoted to these momentoTrade Review"Kamusella shows the way for a future Bulgaria. The recognition of ethnic cleansing is important not only in terms of historical justice and responsibility but also for the future transformation of Bulgaria into a country attractive for immigrants" - Vasil Paraskevov, Konstantin Preslavsky University, Bulgaria, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations, and of the Names of Parties and Organizations Mentioned; The Bulgarian Governments During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; The Heads of State of Bulgaria During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; Introduction; 1. On Forgetfulness and Its Perils; 2. The State of Research on the 1989 Expulsion; 3.The 1989 Ethnic Cleansing Through the Lens of the International Press; 4. The Ethnic Cleansing’s Aftermath and the Regime Change; 5. The Official Coming to Terms with the 1989 Ethnic Cleansing; 6. Between Language and Millet; 7. The Question of Responsibility; Conclusion; Postscriptum; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Political Economy
Book SynopsisThe second edition of International Political Economy continues to be the perfect short introduction to the fundamental theories and issues of international political economy (IPE).Written in a concise, accessible style by an experienced teacher and scholar, it combines theoretical perspectives, real-world examples, and comparative policy analysis. The text offers students an in-depth, balanced understanding of the contrasting core perspectives in IPE, allowing them to critically evaluate and independently analyze major political-economic events.Having emerged from both the classical and modern schools of political economy, the book's unique structure is organized around the threefold world view classification of IPE that the author labels as free-market, institutionalist, and Marxist. The book: Compares, contrasts, and critiques the different approaches in the context of major global issues such as financial crises, free vs. fair traTable of Contents1 The Field of Study Known as "IPE" 2 The Market Model and World View 3 Market World View Applications 4 The Multi-Centric Organizational (MCO) Model and World View 5 Critical Applications of the MCO or Institutionalist World View 6 The Classical Marxist Model and World View 7 Contemporary Applications of Marxist Analysis 8 Summation and Review
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics
Book SynopsisMost developed economies are characterized by high levels of inequality and an inability to provide stability or opportunity for many of their citizens. Mainstream economics has proven to be of little assistance in addressing these systemic failures, and this has led both scholars and students to seek alternatives. One such alternative is provided by Marxian economics. In recent decades the field has seen tremendous theoretical development and Marxian perspectives have begun to appear in public discourse in unprecedented ways.This handbook contains thirty-seven original essays from a wide range of leading international scholars, recognized for their expertise in different areas of Marxian economics. Its scope is broad, ranging from contributions on familiar Marxist concepts such as value theory, the labor process, accumulation, crisis and socialism, to others not always associated with the Marxian canon, like feminism, ecology, international migration and epistemology. TTrade Review"The fading from memory of the Soviet Union has allowed Marxism to be comprehended in increasing clarity these days, consigning to the dustbin of Cold War history many of the silly notions people held of it in those distorted times. Nor has interest in Marxism waned since those times either - if anything, especially since the Great Recession began in 2007, interest and concern with the themes and ideas of Marxism and especially Marxist economics has increased. It is time then for a review and updating of the great insights and theories of that tradition in light of recent history. This volume is a restatement of the main ideas of today’s Marxist economics as they have developed up to the present moment." — Eric A. Schutz, Professor Emeritus, Economics, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, USA"As a scholar I found myself compelled by the deep, exhaustive treatments of Marxian concepts; the accounts are rich, well argued, and generally quite illuminating. As a teacher, I found some of the more introductory and definitional contributions of particular utility in teaching the foundations of Marxian theory...Generally speaking, however, the book is a useful contribution to the field of Marxian economics, many of its chapters warranting consistent re-reading. It is a book that I have already used in my work and one that I am likely to continue using for the foreseeable future." — Benjamin J Anderson, is a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of Contents Contents List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Part One: Dialectics and Methodology 1 Dialectics and Overdetermination 2 Epistemology 3 Marxian Class Analysis Part Two: Analytical and Theoretical Topics 4 Exploitation 5 Labor and Labor Power 6 Abstract Labor 7 Money 8 Value and Price 9 Capital 10 The Circuits of Capital 11 Rent 12 Productive and Unproductive Labor 13 Alienation 14 Primitive Accumulation 15 Demand and Socially Necessary Labor-time Part Three: Capitalist Production and Reproduction 16 The Capitalist Firm 17 Marxian Theories of the Labor Process: From Marx to Braverman 18 Marxian Labor Process Theory Since Braverman 19 Accumulation 20 Marxian Reproduction Schemes 21 Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall - long term dynamics 22 Business Cycles - short term dynamics 23 Neoliberalism 24 Financialization Part Four: Capitalism, Non-Capitalism and Transitions 25 Productive Self-employment in Marxism 26 Socialism and Communism 27 International Migration 28 Agriculture and the Agrarian Question 29 Economic Development 30 Transition Part Five: Marxian Traditions 31 Postmodernism 32 Analytical Marxism 33 Marxism and Keynesianism 34 Social Structure of Accumulation 35 Monopoly Capital Theory 36 Marxism, Feminism and the Household 37 Marxism and Ecology Index
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Cambridge University Press Bureaucracy Economy and Leadership in China
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Cambridge University Press Development Policy Communist Govt West Bengal since 1977 54 Cambridge South Asian Studies Series Number 54
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Cambridge University Press Karl Marxs Theory of Ideas Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
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Cambridge University Press Czechoslovak Reform Movement Communism in Crisis 19621968 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press The United Front The TUC and the Russians 19231928 18 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Red Nations
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Cambridge University Press Red Nations The Nationalities Experience In And After The Ussr
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Cambridge University Press Communism and the Emergence of Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Women Communism and Industrialization in Postwar Poland
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Cambridge University Press The Good Communist
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Cambridge University Press Marxism and Social Democracy
Book SynopsisThis is an anthology in English translation of the major texts concerned with 19th-century debates between democratic socialism and revolutionary Marxism. The central figure of these debates was Edward Bernstein, while his opponents included Bebel, Kautsky, Parvus, Rosa Luxemburg and Belfort Bax.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Bernstein as orthodox Marxist; 2. Colonialism and socialism: Berstein's first exchange with Belfort Bax; 3. Problems of socialism: first series; 4. Socialism and the proletariat; 5. The movement and the final goal: Bernstein's second exchange with Belfort Bax; 6. Bernstein's overthrow of socialism: Parvus's intervention; 7. Revisionism defended; 8. Problems of socialism: second series; 9. Social reform or revolution? Rosa Luxemburg's intervention; 10. The party conference at Stuttgart: the debate on the press; 11. The summing-up; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Bureaucracy Economy and Leadership in China
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Cambridge University Press Karl Marxs Theory of Ideas
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Cambridge University Press The Decline of Communism in China
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Cambridge University Press Religion and American Foreign Policy 19451960
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Cambridge University Press Dialectic of Defeat Contours of Western Marxism
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Cambridge University Press Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation 13 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Organization of War Communism 19181921 47 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 47
Book SynopsisThis book examines the origins, development and reasons for change of the first Soviet economic system. Programmes are compared with outcomes and theory with practice in the fields of nationalization, workers' control and management, money and planning, industrial organization and food procurement. The organization of military supply and industry is examined separately, to emphasize that the initial approach to economic organization was affected not only by external events, but also by ideology, class struggle and social pressures. The economic and social analysis, which lay behind policy-making, was often distorted by prejudice, and the economic system, which emerged was the result of efforts to replace market relations by administrative measures. Unexpected and unwanted outcomes induced some leaders to rethink initial policies, while others continued to adhere to rigid programmes, even after the conclusion of civil war.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Nationalization of industry; 3. Management; 4. Money and value; 5. Industrial administration; 6. Planning; 7. Food Procurement; 8. Prodrazverstka; 9. Military institutions and the militarization of labour; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Stalinism
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Cambridge University Press Poland under Communism
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Cambridge University Press Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Stalinism
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Cambridge University Press Communism and the Emergence of Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Poland Under Communism
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Cambridge University Press Russias Peasants in Revolution and Civil War Citizenship Identity and the Creation of the Soviet State 19141922
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Cambridge University Press International Law and World Order
This book articulates a new approach to international law combining the insights of Marxism, socialist feminism and postcolonial theory. It offers a critique of the principal contemporary perspectives to international law, and analyzes a range of world order issues that include imperialism, the states system, and democracy.
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Cambridge University Press Undeclared Wars with Israel East Germany and the West German Far Left 19671989
Book SynopsisUndeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. This period encompasses the Six-Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur War (1973), Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and an ongoing campaign of terrorism waged by the Palestine Liberation Organization against Israeli civilians. This book provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated in 'actions' with Palestinian terrorist groups, and confirms that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the conflict in the Middle East than has been generally known. A historian who has written extensively on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Jeffrey Herf now offers a new chapter in this long, sad history.Trade Review'An excellent review of the growing hostility of the German left towards Israel during the last fifty years.' Walter Laqueur'A critical book at a critical moment. By examining the Cold War politics of the German left toward Israel, Jeffrey Herf unlocks the origins of contemporary global strategies aimed at Israel's delegitimization, as well as the fusion of anti-Zionism with antisemitism. A remarkable array of sources, from secret police and intelligence files to acrimonious UN debates, makes this book especially authoritative.' Norman J. W. Goda, author of Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War'Jeffrey Herf's Undeclared Wars with Israel greatly enhances our understanding of the shadowy proxy wars fought in the Cold War's closing decades. It commendably sheds new light on the communist bloc's efforts to covertly undermine Israel and diminish western influence in the Middle East. Herf systematically documents both the arms transfers and clandestine support given to an international terrorist campaign that unrelentingly targeted Israel but also de-stabilized the region and convulsed the globe.' Professor Bruce Hoffman, Director, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC'Jeffrey Herf's superb book recounts a deeply troubling episode of the Cold War. He shows how East Germany's Communist regime waged a prolonged, violent campaign against Israel, often with sinister anti-Semitic overtones. Unlike the democratic government in West Germany, which took many important steps to atone for the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, the East German Communists refused to accept any responsibility for the Holocaust and instead provided arms, training, and support to those who wanted to kill Jews and wipe Israel off the map.' Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies, and Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Voluminously documented, [Herf's] new study is the most comprehensive inventory yet of how much of what - treaties, speeches, editorials, state visits, General Assembly votes, military and technical training, academic exchanges, and even enumerated bullets - East Germany did to make Arab friends and influence Arab people. From the late 1960s to the memorable autumn of 1989, a parade of Arab leaders, military and technical delegations, scientists, and aspiring revolutionaries visited East Germany for acclaim, legitimacy, all possible instruments of both hard and soft power, and even access to the West via East Berlin. Meanwhile East Germany offered a home away from home to fugitive West German lefties.' David Schoenbaum, H-Diplo'This groundbreaking book demands to be read, for its advances a deeper understanding of the Cold War period and the Leftist war on Israel. If Germany is serious about grappling with its past, a German publisher will swiftly translate Herf's comprehensive study.' Benjamin Weinthal, The Weekly Standard'Jeffrey Herf shines a searchlight into dark episodes into Germany's troubled past.' Colin Shindler, The Jerusalem Post'Herf has mined numerous important archives and German-language materials … a landmark of scholarship on this understudied and tragic episode of German-Jewish relations.' Jeffrey Kopstein, Journal of Cold War Studies'Jeffrey Herf has produced not only a prodigiously researched indictment but also a timely reminder. As he writes at the very end of his book, although they have been defeated, the communists and radical leftists in Germany 'left behind a toxic ideological brew. Their distortions about the history of the state of Israel, their extensive use of terrorism, and their justifications for it have cast a long and destructive shadow over politics and political culture in the Middle East, in Germany, and around the world.' Allan Arkush, Jewish Review of Books'Herf has written an important study of a difficult and multidimensional chapter in the history of Germans and Jews, interweaving political and military history in East Germany, the rise and self-immolation of the New Left in the West, the vicissitudes of Arab and Palestinian terrorism, and the efforts of Jews, in Israel and in Germany, to survive.' Russell A. Berman, Holocaust and Genocide Studies'Herf has written a readable and informative study of the GDR's position toward Israel, which adds a new chapter to the research of the history of German-Israeli relations. It is based on a large corpus of primary sources and is methodologically well composed. Undeclared Wars with Israel will be a useful source for those studying German and Israeli history, the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the history of international relations, and the history of the European left.' Philipp Lenhard, H-JudaicTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. East Germany and the Six-Day War of June 1967; 3. An anti-Israel left emerges in West Germany: the conjuncture of June 1967; 4. Diplomatic breakthrough to military alliance: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO 1969–73; 5. Palestinian terrorism in 1972: Lod airport, the Munich Olympics, and responses; 6. Formalizing the East German alliance with the PLO and the Arab states: 1973; 7. Political warfare at the United Nations during the Yom Kippur War of 1973; 8. 1974: Palestinian terrorist attacks on Kiryat Shmona and Maalot and responses in East Germany, West Germany, Israel, the United States, and the United Nations; 9. The UN 'Zionism is racism' revolution of November 10, 1975; 10. The Entebbe hijacking and 'selection' and the West German 'revolutionary cells'; 11. An alliance deepens: East Germany, the Arab states, and the PLO: 1978–82; 12. Terrorism from Lebanon to Israel's 'operation peace for Galilee': 1977–82; 13. Loyal friends in defeat: 1983–9 and after; 14. Conclusion.
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