Far-left political ideologies and movements Books
University of California Press New World Disorder The Leninist Extinction
Book SynopsisIdentifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political corruption, extinction, and highly unsettling legacy. This study includes essays that reject the fundamental assumptions about social change which inform the work of modernization theorists.Table of ContentsPreface 1. THE LENINIST PHENOMENON 2. POLITICAL CULTURE IN LENINIST REGIMES 3. INCLUSION 4. NEOTRADITIONALISM 5. "MOSCOW CENTRE" 6. GORBACHEV: BOLSHEVIK OR MENSHEVIK? 7. THE LENINIST EXTINCTION 8. THE LENINIST LEGACY 9. A WORLD WITHOUT LENINISM Index
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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 Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria
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University of California Press Marxism and Modernism
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University of California Press The Communist Party of Indonesia 19511963
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University of California Press The Generation
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University of California Press The Education of a Russian Statesman
Book SynopsisThe Education of a Russian Statesman: The Memoirs of Nicholas Karlovich Giers offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and career of one of Russia's most influential diplomats. Written by Giers himself, the memoirs cover his early childhood, education in St. Petersburg, and his initial years in the Russian Foreign Ministry, providing a detailed account of the path that led him to become the Foreign Minister under Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III. The memoirs shed light on Giers's personal struggles with his foreign roots, his slow rise through the ranks, and his role as a diplomatic secretary, rather than a policy-maker. His dedication, diligence, and moderation are evident throughout the work, as Giers sought to steer Russia away from foreign entanglements and instead focus on internal reforms. His personal relationships and connections, particularly through his marriage to Olga Cantacuzino, niece of the Russian foreign minister, played a pivotal role in his career, and the memoirs offer a unique perspective on the Russian elite's complex social and political dynamics during the 19th century. In addition to his personal narrative, Giers offers rich historical insights into the political environment of the time, including his experiences in Moldavia, which was under Russian protection. His account paints a vivid picture of the power struggles among local elites, the role of Russian consuls, and the corruption that plagued the region. Giers also provides a candid view of his thoughts on various nationalities and cultures, including his anti-Semitic views, which reflect the prevalent attitudes of his era. The Education of a Russian Statesman not only serves as a memoir of Giers's life but also as a valuable historical document that illuminates Russia's foreign policy, its domestic politics, and the personal dynamics that shaped the country's international standing during the mid-19th century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
£999.99
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 His Majestys Opposition
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University of California Press Titoism in Action
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.
£42.00
University of California Press Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria
£85.02
University of California Press Iran
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University of California Press The Education of a Russian Statesman
Book SynopsisThe Education of a Russian Statesman: The Memoirs of Nicholas Karlovich Giers offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and career of one of Russia's most influential diplomats. Written by Giers himself, the memoirs cover his early childhood, education in St. Petersburg, and his initial years in the Russian Foreign Ministry, providing a detailed account of the path that led him to become the Foreign Minister under Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III. The memoirs shed light on Giers's personal struggles with his foreign roots, his slow rise through the ranks, and his role as a diplomatic secretary, rather than a policy-maker. His dedication, diligence, and moderation are evident throughout the work, as Giers sought to steer Russia away from foreign entanglements and instead focus on internal reforms. His personal relationships and connections, particularly through his marriage to Olga Cantacuzino, niece of the Russian foreign minister, played a pivotal role in his career, and the memoirs offer a unique perspective on the Russian elite's complex social and political dynamics during the 19th century. In addition to his personal narrative, Giers offers rich historical insights into the political environment of the time, including his experiences in Moldavia, which was under Russian protection. His account paints a vivid picture of the power struggles among local elites, the role of Russian consuls, and the corruption that plagued the region. Giers also provides a candid view of his thoughts on various nationalities and cultures, including his anti-Semitic views, which reflect the prevalent attitudes of his era. The Education of a Russian Statesman not only serves as a memoir of Giers's life but also as a valuable historical document that illuminates Russia's foreign policy, its domestic politics, and the personal dynamics that shaped the country's international standing during the mid-19th century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
£85.56
University of California Press His Majestys Opposition
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University of California Press Titoism in Action
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.
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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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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 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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Random House USA Inc Maoism A Global History
Book Synopsis*** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDINGSHORTLISTED FOR DEUTSCHER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING***'Revelatory and instructive… [a] beautifully written and accessible book’ The TimesFor decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.The power and appeal of Maoism have extended far beyond Chi
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Mariner Books Spain in Our Hearts
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Faber & Faber Koestler
Book SynopsisBest known as the author of the classic Darkness at Noon, Koestler was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals, involved in and commenting on almost every political movement of the twentieth century. As young man, he was a committed Zionist and moved to Palestine; he was imprisoned and sentenced to death in Franco''s Spain; escaped Occupied France; and was a member of the Communist party for seven years, later becoming one of its fiercest critics with the publication of Darkness at Noon. Without sentimentality, Scammell gives a full account of Koestler''s turbulent private life: his drug use, manic depression, the frenetic womanizing that doomed his three marriages and led to an accusation of rape, and his startling suicide pact with his wife in 1983. Koestler also gives a full account of the author''s voluminous writings, making the case that the autobiographies and essays are fit to stand beside Darkness at Noon as works of l
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World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press The Left is Seldom Right
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Random House USA Inc The Rebel and the Kingdom
Book SynopsisHow did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The New York Times bestselling co-author of Billion Dollar Whale and Blood and Oil chronicles the heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative his high-stakes attempt subvert the North Korean regime. “Propulsive . . . Hope’s account is both deeply reported and novelistic.”—Ed Caesar, contributing staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Moth and the MountainIn the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped asylum-s
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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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Marx Modernity Key Readings and Commentary 1
Book SynopsisIn this collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity. Organized analytically, each section of readings relates to an enduring facet of Marxist thought.Trade Review"Robert J. Antonio's collection on Marx and modernity brings together keyworks of Marx and a variety of contemporary Marxist writings that engage topics such as globalization, information technology, the triumph of neo-liberal market capitalism and global struggles against it. Antonio provides a lucid overview of Karl Marx's life and works, and debates over his legacy that should be extremely useful for contemporary readers." --Douglas Kellner, University of California at Los Angeles "The essays by Marx are intelligently chosen, the lively commentaries by a host of well-known scholars exhibit the range of his influence, while the outstanding introduction by Robert Antonio illuminates his salience for our time. This is a first-rate collection!" --Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. General Editor's Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Marx and Modernity (Robert J. Antonio). Section I: Marx Readings. Part 1: Marx's Vision of History: "Historical Materialism.". 1. Primary Historical Relations or the Basic Aspects of Social Activity (with Friedrich Engels). 2. The Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas... (with Friedrich Engels). 3. The Formation of Classes... (with Friedrich Engels). 4. Preface to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy. 5. Labor Rent. 6. Karl Marx (Friedrich Engels). 7. Letter to Joseph Bloch (Friedrich Engels). Part 2: The Juggernaut of Capitalist Modernity: The Revolutionary Bourgeoisie, End of Tradition, and New Social Powers. 8. The So-Called Primitive Accumulation. 9. Development of the Division of Labor (with Friedrich Engels). 10. Bourgeois and Proletarians: (with Friedrich Engels). 11. Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation. 12. Cooperation. 13. Cardinal Facts of Capitalist Production. Part 3: Marx's Labor Theory of Value: The Hidden Social Relationship Beneath Capitalism's Distorted "Economic" Surface. 14. The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use Value and Value. 15. From Value, Price and Profit. 16. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof. 17. The General Formula for Capital. Part 4: The First and Second Industrial Revolutions: From Manufacture to Modern Industry. 18. Division of Labor and Manufacture. 19. Machinery and Modern Industry. Part 5: The Downside of Capitalist Growth: Unemployment, Poverty, Speculative Crises, and Environmental Devastation. 20. General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. 21. The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall. 22. Progressive Production of a Relative Surplus Population or Industrial Reserve Army. 23. Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain. 24. The Economic Crisis in Europe. 25. Modern Industry and Agriculture. Part 6: Globalization and Colonialism: The New International Division of Labor. 26. Foreign Trade. 27. Repulsion Attraction of Workpeople. 28. The Crisis in England. 29. British Incomes in India. 30. The Indian Revolt. Part 7: New Society Rising in the Old: Socially Regulated Capitalism and a Third Industrial Revolution. 31. The Factory Acts. 32. The Role of Credit in Capitalist Production. 33. Fixed Capital and Development of the Productive Forces of Society. Part 8: The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Vicissitudes of History: Counterrevolution, Dictatorship, or Radical Democracy?. 34. Bourgeois and Proletarians: (with Friedrich Engels). 35. Proletarians and Communists: (with Friedrich Engels). 36. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. 37. The Civil War in France. 38. Critique of the Gotha Program. Section II: Contemporary Readings. Part 9: After Communism: The Death or Return of Marx?. 39. Mourning Marxism (Ronald Aronson, Wayne State University). 40. Marx Redux (David Harvey, Johns Hopkins University). 41. The Return of Karl Marx (John Cassidy). Part 10: New Economy or Old?: Information Capitalism and the Polarization of Class, Race, and Ethnicity. 42. The Connected and the Disconnected (Jeremy Rifkin). 43. The Architect of a New Consensus (Thomas Frank). 44. Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods (William Julius Wilson, Harvard University). 45. Fortress L.A. (Mike Davis). Part 11: Neoliberal Globalization: Concentration, Proletarianization, and Immiseration in the New Transitional Order. 46. America's Immigration "Problem" (Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago). 47. "These Dark Satanic Mills" (William Greider). 48. From the Great Transformation to the Global Free Market (John Gray, London School of Economics). Part 12: Emergent Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: Anti-Corporate, Alliance Politics & Direct Actions. 49. Slouching toward Seattle (Jeff Faux). 50. Seattle Diary (Jeff St. Clair). 51. Not Just a Seattle Sequel (Bruce Shapiro). Part 13: Rethinking Class and Emancipation after Communism: Avoiding Marxist Determinism and Totalization. 52. Class Analysis, History, and Emancipation (Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin). 53. From Redistribution to Recognition? (Nancy Fraser, New School University). Bibliography. Index.
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Harvard University Press Transitional Citizens Voters and What Influences
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia's protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that just a few years ago, under dictatorial rule, they could not have dreamt of. Colton finds that despite their unfamiliarity with democracy, subjects-turned-citizens learn about their electoral options from peers and the mass media.Trade ReviewTransitional Citizens is a very important study, executed with exemplary thoroughness and consistency. There is no doubt that it will be a major and lasting contribution, important for the study of Russian politics and democratic transitions more generally. -- Thomas F. Remington, Emory UniversityColton and an impressive group of collaborators offer a technically excellent addition to the growing body of literature on Russian electoral behavior. The researchers studied voter attitudes related to the 1995 Duma and 1996 presidential elections. A rather large sample and repeated interviews give the study an appearance of authenticity. Colton examines possible variables involved in voters' choices, including socioeconomic characteristics, partisanship, perceptions of leadership, and issues. -- R. J. Mitchell * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Subjects into Citizens 2. Transitional Citizens and the Electoral Process 3. Society in Transformation 4. Partisanship in Formation 5. Opinions, Opinions ... 6. Performance, Personality, and Promise 7. Tying the Strands Together Appendix A. Post-Soviet Election Results, 1993-1996 Appendix B. Survey Data, Methods, and Models Appendix C. Summary of Issue Opinions Appendix D. Supplementary Tables Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press If Youre an Egalitarian How Come Youre So Rich
Book SynopsisFocusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, G. A. Cohen argues that egalitarian justice is not only a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made.Trade ReviewThese nine engaging and searching lectures, an unorthodox mixture of intellectual autobiography and philosophical argument, fall into two parts. In the first, [Cohen] describes the leading features of the Marxism in which he once believed. In the second, he explains why he remains critical of the sort of left-wing liberalism that would seem to be Marxism's natural alternative. -- Ben Rogers * The Observer *Some titles carry the author's voice...Surely If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? does. Cohen is much the funniest living Anglophone political philosopher of any note, as well as perhaps the cleverest. Many of his best comic effects depend on the tone of voice, and some are clearly intended simply for fun. But it is always dangerous to assume that the jokes do not carry a point...[Cohen's book is] a strikingly personal address, fusing autobiography and the history of ideas with political philosophy, and ending not only with the weighty issue of how far personal attitudes must feature within the subject matter of justice itself, but with the more disconcerting question of how far the disciplines of living effectively under capitalism are bound to prove lethal for the soul...At one level, Cohen's book is largely an ingenious and agreeably frank casuistry of the ethics of professorial income management, but at another and more consequential level, it is a most imaginative deployment of personal ethical discomfort to pin down, and press home, a deep evasion at the center of this majority vision of social justice under capitalism. Its source may be merely the externalization of a private disquiet; but its force at the point of impact is as public as any philosopher could wish. -- John Dunn * Times Higher Education Supplement *This is an unusual book, a remarkably successful blend of autobiography, intellectual history and moral philosophy that reflects the author's distinctive outlook and background … [It] presents, I believe, the most important contemporary challenge to the egalitarian form of liberalism...The questions he asks are the ones we should all be worrying about. -- Thomas Nagel * Times Literary Supplement *It would be difficult to over-praise this wonderful book. It is profound, humane, witty, erudite, and often deeply personal. Though presented as something of an intellectual memoir, Cohen provides us with more food for thought than has been available in any book on egalitarian political philosophy in recent memory. -- Daniel Weinstock * Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsPreface Prospectus 1. Paradoxes of Conviction 2. Politics and Religion in a Montreal Communist Jewish Childhood 3. The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science 4. Hegel in Marx: The Obstetric Motif in the Marxist Conception of Revolution 5. The Opium of the People:God in Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx 6. Equality: From Fact to Norm 7. Ways That Bad Things Can Be Good: A Lighter Look at the Problem of Evil 8. Justice, Incentives, and Selfishness 9. Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice 10. Political Philosophy and Personal Behavior Envoi Notes Bibliography Credits Index
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Harvard University Press Apostles and Agitators
Book SynopsisOne of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984. In this study of how an ideology of terror becomes rooted in society, Richard Drake explains the historical character of the revolutionary tradition to which so many ordinary Italians professed allegiance.Trade ReviewThis is a gem of modern Italian political and intellectual history. It appears at a timely juncture when many parts of the world once again are falling prey to revolutionary violence and terrorism. -- Charles F. Delzell, Emeritus, Vanderbilt UniversityApostles and Agitators is a tour de force of intellectual history and a model of how to recover historical memory. Richard Drake brings forcefully to the attention of today's readers such forgotten revolutionaries as the anarchist leader Carlo Cafiero, the Marxist thinker Antonio Labriola, and Italy's foremost disciple of Georges Sorel, Arturo Labriola. He also courageously places the young Benito Mussolini--unhappily famous as the founder of Fascism--squarely within the Marxist revolutionary tradition. This book is an honest and hard-hitting work that unravels the mystery of why ideological terrorism had so much appeal for the left in the Italy of the 1970s--and why it remains a potential threat. -- Spencer M. Di Scala, University of Massachusetts, BostonThis fascinating book deals with Italy's Marxist revolutionaries who adopted and updated Guiseppe Garibaldi's 1860 war cry 'Qui si fa l'Italia o si muore' ('Here we make Italy--or die'). -- Arnold Beichman * Washington Times *Drake, who teaches at the University of Montana, is already responsible for one of the two best books on the Moro case. In Apostles and Agitators he has an unmistakable, but unacknowledged model: Edmund Wilson's majestic To the Finland Station. Each book relates the thought of the important figures in the Marxist tradition to the lives and situations of those figures. Drake's analysis confirms that for much of two centuries, the revolutionary Left has expended the majority of its energy and its venom in its ongoing war against the moderate reformers ("revisionists") of its own faith. Wilson would be very proud of this valuable book. -- Stanton Burnett * USItalia *From the late 19th century through at least half of the 20th, Europe's socialist and communist parties and multiple radical groups drew inspiration and guidance from Marx's revolutionary philosophy. Advocates of violence as well as partisans of reform though existing political systems shared much of this common source and ultimate goal. While differing interpretations of Marx frequently yielded splintering and antagonisms, the revolutionary traditions in each country were shaped more by national conditions than by ideological differences. Nowhere was this truer than in Italy, where violence was embraced by successive generations on the Left. Drake explores the path that led to outbursts of terror and murder attributed to the 'Red Brigades' from 1969 to 1984. Succinct and comprehensive intellectual portraits of leading contributors to Italy's revolutionary tradition from the 1870s forward demonstrate the persistent appeal of direct revolutionary action. Remarkable figures all, several stand out and are described and analyzed brilliantly: Arturo Labriola, Benito Mussolini (a leading socialist until 1915), Antonio Gramsci, and Palmiro Togliatti. Key themes are followed throughout so that these portraits, taken together, offer rich understanding of a preference, even a passion, for violence on the Italian Left. -- N. Greene * Choice *Drake illustrates the overarching, ideological resoluteness of his protagonists and respectively explains why each of their revolutionary programs failed. Drake is particularly effective in the essay on Mussolini where he convincingly explains that his 'ideological eclecticism' made it possible to switch from socialism to nationalism in a seamless manner. Drake is as informative when he places Gramsci's historical significance into the context of reality. Rightly, he points out that Gramsci was a dogmatic follower of the Communist International who misinterpreted the Italian Risorgimento and who, finally, politically underestimated the rise of Fascism...Without question, as Drake points out, this 'complex culture of violence' dominated the Red Brigades in the seventies and eighties. Hence, Marx's revolutionary theory in Italy ended as a blind, brutal, and murderous phenomenon. -- Wolfgang Schieder * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *Drake uses biography to relate the ideas of his chosen protagonists to those of other European intellectual/political leaders, and to shed light on the relevant periods. The chapters on [Carlo] Cafiero and Antonio Labriola, useful introductions to these little-known individuals, bring out both the contested nature of the Italian reception of Marx from the beginning and the difficulty of establishing a mainstream and sophisticated Marxism...[The] chapter on Mussolini is a lively and persuasive account of his transition from being an important leader of revolutionary socialists, until his expulsion from the socialist party in 1914, to being the architect of his nationalist/fascist programme. Drake's treatments of Bordiga and the early Gramsci are well worth reading, particularly the account of Bordiga, where his ideological links with the Trotskyists are made unusually clear. -- Gino Bedani * Journal of Modern Italian Studies *Drake offers an invaluable genealogy of Marxist thinkers and demonstrates how Marx and Marxism--far from being a monolithic ideology--were adapted to Italian political, economic, and cultural realities on the ground. In Drake's reading, Mussolini and the forgotten Amadeo Bordiga both come off as more sincere than does Gramsci. This challenge to the usual saintly portrait of Gramsci is welcome, as Drake is honest in both his criticism and praise. It is indeed a formidable cast of characters, but Drake does not neglect non-Marxist thinkers such as Filippo Turati (the grand old man of Italian socialism), Karl Kautsky, Eduard Bernstein, Vilfredo Pareto, and Georges Sorel. -- Stanislao G. Pugliese * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Karl Marx: The Word 2. Carlo Cafiero: Prophet of Anarchist Communism 3. Antonio Labriola: The Philosopher of Praxis 4. Arturo Labriola: The Revolutionary Betrayed 5. Benito Mussolini: The Indispensable Revolutionary 6. Amadeo Bordiga: The Revolutionary as Anti-Realpolitiker 7. Antonio Gramsci: The Revolutionary as Centrist 8. Palmiro Togliatti: The Revolutionary as Cultural Impresario Coda: Revolution and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press The Last Revolutionaries German Communists and
Book SynopsisDrawing on previously inaccessible sources and extensive personal interviews, Epstein offers an unparalleled portrait of the most enduring and influential generation of Central European communists. In the service of their party, these communists experienced solidarity and betrayal, power and persecution, sacrifice and reward, triumph and defeat.Trade ReviewEpstein argues persuasively that…internment, Soviet exile and Western exile all led to redoubled emphasis on party discipline… Epstein’s work is essential to study of the GDR and will be a prerequisite for wider comparative considerations of communist elites. -- Martin Berger * American Historical Review *In this absorbing study, Epstein records the history of the German communist movement from the Weimar era to the demise of the German Democratic Republic by focusing on the careers of eight ‘old communists,’ those who joined the party before Hitler assumed office in 1933, including Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker, and one woman, Emmy Koenen. Epstein’s extensive research reveals a wealth of new information…that alter[s] heretofore widely accepted interpretations of this period. -- T. M. Keefe * Choice *Epstein takes a biographical approach in this fascinating study of communism in Germany. After interviewing and researching hundreds of ‘Old Communists,’ she chose eight representatives of the long-term Communist experience and intertwines their stories… Their lives make for compelling reading… This collective biography offers a revealing and readable account of an important aspect of modern European history. A worthy complement to scholarly studies of East Germany… Highly recommended. -- Thomas A. Karel * Library Journal *A pathbreaking study that explores the world of veteran communists and puts forward fresh interpretations of their peculiar mentality. Moving well beyond traditional institutional and organizational analyses of communism, Epstein demonstrates in her richly documented collective biography how social conditioning and experiences during a time of struggle and sacrifice prior to 1945 shaped the ideologies and policies of this small band of East German leaders. Essential reading for an understanding of the communist mind and of communist practice. -- V. R. Berghahn, Columbia UniversityCatherine Epstein’s The Last Revolutionaries is the most comprehensive, deeply researched, and nuanced history of the leading German communists in English, and perhaps in German as well. Her use of the East German archives opened in the early 1990s expands our understanding of German communism from the 1920s to 1989, and makes for grim but essential reading. She has captured the illusions but also the engagement and tragedy of the veteran German communists with the balance, thoroughness, and fairness we expect from our best historians. -- Jeffrey Herf, author of Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two GermanysCatherine Epstein has written a lively and engaging study of a remarkable generation of German leftists who entered radical politics in the Weimar period, fought fascism, and ended up ruling one of the most bureaucratic and stultifying political entities on earth, the German Democratic Republic. Anyone who wants to understand the rise and fall of the communist movement in the twentieth century should read this important and original comparative biography. -- Norman M. Naimark, author of The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949Catherine Epstein tells the story of a unique generation, but also provides a novel explanation far the failure of the ‘old comrades’ to build their communist paradise. [The Last Revolutionaries] is an extraordinary book, and an important one. -- Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania
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Harvard University, Asia Center Wretched Rebels
Book SynopsisBianco focuses on spontaneous rural unrest, uninfluenced by revolutionary intellectuals. The author shows that predominant forms of protest were directed not against the landowning class but against state agents, and suggests that 20th-century Chinese peasants were less different from 17th- or 18th-century French peasants than might be imagined.Table of ContentsBoxes, Maps, and Tables Conventions Preface 1. Typology I: Movements Opposed to the Administration 2. Typology II: Movements Within Society 3. Repertoire of Action 4. Exploitation or Oppression? 5. Taxation 6. Reforms 7. Conscription 8. Permanencies Appendix: The Various Categories of Rural Disturbances Notes Works Cited Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Maos Invisible Hand
Book SynopsisObservers have been predicting the demise of China's Communist state since Mao's death. Yet policymakers have managed the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history. This book shows that many contemporary techniques of governance have their roots in experimental policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC.Trade ReviewMao’s Invisible Hand is one of those books that make one feel good about scholarship. It describes inner workings of Chinese Communist society about which few nonexperts know anything—it may even surprise the experts—and it will interest anyone professionally interested in China. Its central purpose is to explain how China has escaped the disintegration of other Communist states. -- Jonathan Mirsky * New York Review of Books *This is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books published in recent years on the critical questions about China’s developmental path and the role of history. -- Chen Xi * China Beat *One of the most sophisticated works of this sort. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom * Miller-McCune.com *
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Harvard University Press The Black Book of Communism
Book SynopsisThis international bestseller plumbs archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. The authors show how and why, wherever the ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression.Trade ReviewAn 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, recorded and analyzed in ghastly detail by a team of scholars. The facts and figures, some of them well known, others newly confirmed in hitherto inaccessible archives, are irrefutable. The myth of the well-intentioned founders--the good czar Lenin betrayed by his evil heirs--has been laid to rest for good. No one will any longer be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal nature of Communism, and those who had begun to forget will be forced to remember anew. -- Tony Judt * New York Times *When The Black Book of Communism appeared in Europe in 1997 detailing communism's crimes, it created a furor. Scrupulously documented and soberly written by several historians, it is a masterful work. It is, in fact, a reckoning. With this translation by Jonathan Murphy and Mark Kramer, English-language readers may now see for themselves what all the commotion was about. -- Jacob Heilbrunn * Wall Street Journal *The Black Book of Communism, which is finally appearing in English, is an extraordinary and almost unspeakably chilling book. It is a major study that deepens our understanding of communism and poses a philosophical and political challenge that cannot be ignored. The book's central argument, copiously documented and repeated in upwards of a dozen different essays, is that the history of communism should be read above all as the history of an all-out assault on society by a series of conspiratorial cliques led by cruel dictators (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim II Sung, Pol Pot, and dozens of imitators) who were murderously drunk on their own ideology and power...Courtois and his collaborators have performed a signal service by gathering in one volume a global history of communism's crimes from the Soviet Union to China, from the satellite countries of Eastern-Europe to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and North Korea, and to a lesser degree in Latin America and Africa...The Black Book is enormously impressive and utterly convincing. -- Michael Scammell * New Republic *To the extent that the book has a literary style, it is that of the recording angel; this is the body count of a colossal, wholly failed social, economic, political and psychological experiment. It is a criminal indictment, and it rightly reads like one. -- Alan Ryan * New York Times Book Review *Most sensible adults are aware of communism's human toll in the Soviet Union and elsewhere--the forced starvations in the Ukraine, the Great Purge of the 1930s, the Gulag, the insanity of China's Great Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's murder of one in every seven Cambodians, Fidel Castro's firing squads and prisons. All these horrors are now brought together in what the French scholar Martin Mali, in his foreword, calls a 'balance sheet of our current knowledge of communism's human costs, archivally based where possible and elsewhere drawing on the best available secondary evidence'...The book is all the more damning because each of the contributing scholars is either a former communist or close fellow traveler...That The Black Book infuriated the French left is a sure mark of its intrinsic worth. -- Joseph C. Goulden * Washington Times *The Black Book is a groundbreaking effort by a group of French scholars to document the human costs of Communism in the 20th century. Its publication caused a sensation in France when it was first released in 1997, but Americans were not able to see for themselves what the furor was all about until October 1999, when Harvard University Press finally released an English translation. It was worth the wait. Taking advantage of many newly available archives in former Communist states, the authors (many of them former Communists themselves) have meticulously recorded the crimes, terror and repression inflicted by Communist regimes across the world. It is a powerful work. -- Mark A. Thiessen * National Review *The authors of The Black Book of Communism are part of a welcome change in the moral-philosophical landscape in Paris, and one hopes elsewhere, as a result of which liberal and left-of-center intellectuals, scholars and politicians judge the crimes of communist regimes with the same severity they've applied to those of Nazism and fascism. -- Jeffrey Herf * Washington Post Book World *Arguing with the passion of former believers, [the contributors] charge that communism was a criminal system. They all make the case well. * Foreign Affairs *Now The Black Book of Communism is available in English, thanks to a stellar edition from Harvard University Press that appeared late last year, with an excellent introduction by Martin Malia, professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. -- Stephen Goode * Insight *This black book has been a best seller across Europe. It details all the misery inflicted by Communism throughout the world: 25 million dead in the Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia...Not a pleasant book, a necessary one. -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *A sober and balanced piece of work. [The Black Book of Communism] is particularly good on the origins of the Soviet police state under Lenin and on Stalin's Great Terror. It should be read by anyone who still has illusions that the Bolshevik revolution was a good thing--and anyone who believes that something worthwhile was lost when the Berliners destroyed the Wall 10 years ago. -- Paul Anderson * The Tribune *A serious, scholarly history of Communist crimes in the Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, China, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, Africa, and Latin America...The Black Book does indeed surpass many of its predecessors in conveying the grand scale of the Communist tragedy, thanks to its authors' extensive use of the newly opened archives of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. -- Anne Applebaum * Weekly Standard *A generally even-toned and informative book, and one that will serve as a healthy dose of medication for those still afflicted by a wish to treat the Bolshevik revolution as a mistake, however monumental, or something that 'had to happen'...The Black Book's guiding purpose is to cut through the dense tissue of apologetics that has been deployed in the communist interest, both those devised in the thick of repression and those added after the collapse. -- Ben Webb * New Times *The Black Book of Communism] consists of scholarly yet readable (and superbly translated) essays, some based on recently opened Soviet archives, and covers the communist revolutions in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, including Cuba...The Black Book [is] a most important volume of contemporary history produced by a group of French Sovietologists...On finishing this magnificent volume, it is impossible not to see that in three-quarters of a century Soviet communism had left nothing behind except death and destruction. -- Arnold Beichman * Weekend Post *The heart of the Black Book is a compilation and description--in mesmerizing objective prose-- of the slaughters visited upon populations around the world by communist dictators in the 20th century...The Black Book is an elegantly simple and valuable record of a time many would like to forget--but will have to deal with. -- John Omicinski * Scottsdale Tribune *I can't think of any book that would be more important for Americans to read. If you are going to read only one book this year, make it The Black Book of Communism. This is an 800-page history of the terror, repression and killings of communism stretching from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Written by scholars who are ex-communists or former fellow travelers, the book establishes beyond doubt that communism is the greatest crime against humanity in the 20th century. -- Charley Reese * The Sentine *An important scholarly achievement of exhaustive breadth based on new archival material from the Stalin era...This impressive and important book is well worth the price. -- Zachary T. Irwin * Library Journal *A unique attempt by French historians--as important in its way as the works of Solzhenitsyn--to chronicle the crimes of communism wherever it has attained power in the world. Not the least remarkable thing about this book is that this is the first time such a study has been made. For the cumulative toll of victims of communist rule, estimated by the authors at between 85 and 100 million, dwarfs even the crimes of the Nazis...A devastating and important book, already hailed in Europe, and the more harrowing for its sobriety. * Kirkus Reviews *In France, this damning reckoning of communism's worldwide legacy was a bestseller that sparked passionate arguments among intellectuals of the Left. Courtois, along with the other distinguished French and European contributors, delivers a fact-based, mostly Russia-centered wallop that will be hard to refute: town burnings, mass deportations, property seizures, family separations, mass murders, planned famines--all chillingly documented from conception to implementation. * Publishers Weekly *In the end, the Black Book's body counts--necessary as they are--are less important than the soul-destroying connections between Marxist idealism and the violence committed in its name. -- Lawrence Osborne * salon.com *The publishing sensation in France this winter (1999) has been an austere academic tome, Le Livre Noir du Communisme, detailing Communism's crimes from Russia in 1917 to Afghanistan in 1989...[The Black Book of Communism] gives a balance sheet of our present knowledge of Communism's human costs, archivally based where possible, and otherwise drawing on the best secondary works, and with due allowance for the difficulties of quantification. Yet austere though this inventory is, its cumulative impact is overwhelming. At the same time, the book advances a number of important analytical points. -- Martin Malia * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents* Foreword: The Uses of Atrocity Martin Malia * Introduction: The Crimes of Communism Stephane Courtois I. A State against Its People: Violence, Repression, and Terror in the Soviet Union Nicolas Werth * Paradoxes and Misunderstandings Surrounding the October Revolution * The Iron Fist of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat * The Red Terror * The Dirty War * From Tambov to the Great Famine * From the Truce to the Great Turning Point * Forced Collectivization and Dekulakization * The Great Famine * Socially Foreign Elements and the Cycles of Repression * The Great Terror (1936 -1938) * The Empire of the Camps * The Other Side of Victory * Apogee and Crisis in the Gulag System * The Last Conspiracy * The Exit from Stalinism Conclusion II. Word Revolution, Civil War, and Terror Stephane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panne, and Remi Kauffer * The Comintern in Action Stephane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panne * The Shadow of the NKVD in Spain Stephane Courtois and Jean-Louis Panne * Communism and Terrorism Remi Kauffer III. The Other Europe: Victim of Communism Andrzej Paczkowski and Karel Bartoek * Poland, the "Enemy Nation" Andrzej Paczkowski * Central and Southeastern Europe Karel Bartoek IV. Communism in Asia: Between Reeducation and Massacre Jean-Louis Margolin and Pierre Rigoulot Introduction * China: A Long March into Night Jean-Louis Margolin * Crimes, Terror, and Secrecy in North Korea Pierre Rigoulot * Vietnam and Laos: The Impasse of War Communism Jean-Louis Margolin * Cambodia: The Country of Disconcerting Crimes Jean-Louis Margolin Conclusion Select Bibliography for Asia V. The Third World Pascal Fontaine, Yves Santamaria, and Sylvain Boulouque * Communism in Latin America Pascal Fontaine * Afrocommunism: Ethiopia, Angola, and Mozambique Yves Santamaria * Communism in Afghanistan Sylvain Boulouque Conclusion: Why? Stephane Courtois * Notes * Index * About the Authors
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Harvard University Press Buddhism under Mao
Book SynopsisBuddhism under Mao shows what kind of a problem Buddhism presented to the Chinese Communists and how they solved it. Relying largely on materials from the Mainland press, Holmes Welch has made what is probably the most detailed study so far available of the fate of a world religion in a Communist country. He describes how Buddhist institutions were controlled, protected, utilized, and suppressed; and explains why the larger needs of foreign and domestic policy dictated the Communists' approach to the institutions. Over eighty photographs illustrate the activities of monks, laymen, and foreign visitors. Welch worked for over a decade on the trilogy here completed. The preceding volumes, The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 19001950 and The Buddhist Revival in China, dealt with Buddhism in the years before the Communist victory. Buddhism under Mao ends with a discussion of the possibility of the survival of certain elements of Buddhism in new forms.
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Harvard University Press Communities of Discourse Ideology and Social
Book SynopsisSociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern societyâthe Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.
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Harvard University Press Ripe for Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Cold War–era experiments of the Global South make clear that socialism is more than Stalinism. Jeremy Friedman looks to Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran to understand how socialism has worked in practice. Each state developed its own socialism, pragmatically addressing local needs and shaping the horizons of socialism today.Trade ReviewImpressive…Although the pursuit of socialism in the global South generally ended in failure, Friedman argues that it left lasting legacies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *Impressive…[Ripe for Revolution] reveals much that we did not know—and have been desperate to learn—about Soviet involvement in, and evaluations of, the Third World. -- Tanya Harmer * H-Diplo *A brilliantly original study of how communism was transformed by its encounter with the postcolonial world, forging a model of socialist development that shapes our world down to the present. In an era overshadowed by talk of a new Cold War, Ripe for Revolution is essential reading. -- Adam Tooze, author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the WorldAn illuminating exploration of the power of the concept of socialism, especially in the developing world, that provides clues to today’s challenges—from Xi Jinping’s ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ to Bernie Sanders’s ‘socialism with American characteristics.’ -- Graham Allison, author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?An outstanding book. By showing how and why socialism became a preferred model for state building and social transformation in countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Friedman reestablishes the centrality of non-capitalist models of development and illuminates what made scientific socialism so attractive for so many in the postcolonial world. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea RelationsOriginal and lucid, Ripe for Revolution confirms Friedman’s standing as one of our foremost practitioners of Cold War international history. His book deepens our understanding of the winding path of Soviet promotion of socialism, incisively revealing strains of pragmatic calculation within ideological parameters. It not only has fresh implications for understanding the postwar communist realm but also illuminates Western Cold War calculations. -- James G. Hershberg, author of Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in VietnamFriedman strides confidently around the world to the hotspots of late Cold War socialism, from Tanzania to Chile and Angola to Indonesia, to show the many ways in which Marx, Lenin, and Mao were put into practice. With a dazzling array of sources about the local varieties of socialism, Friedman never loses track of geopolitics. The result is a tour de force of Cold War history on a global scale. -- David C. Engerman, author of The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in IndiaTransforming how we see the Cold War and its legacies, Friedman punctuates standard narratives of capitalist diffusion as he tracks the variety of policies and institutions across different socialist states alongside their stubborn independence from patrons in Moscow and Beijing. Anyone interested in understanding political development in the Global South must read this revealing book. -- Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office
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Harvard University Press The August Trials
Book SynopsisAndrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland’s halting judicial reckoning with wartime collaboration. As evidence of popular participation in the Holocaust mounted, the government, judiciary, and citizenry turned the trials into a vehicle for salvaging a heroic vision of the past.Trade ReviewKornbluth’s forensic examination of August trials documents, only recently made available for scrutiny, confirms that the Jedwabne pogrom was not an isolated event…As a result of actions taken by Germans and Poles during this period, 90 per cent of Poland’s 3.5 million Jewish population was exterminated. Kornbluth’s detailing of cases makes difficult reading. -- Mark Glanville * Jewish Chronicle *Pioneering…Kornbluth examines the decree, its consequences and iterations, and its functioning in the complex realities of postwar Poland—both then and, by implication, today. Then, as now, the government largely sought to underscore crimes against Poles and to minimize crimes against Jews…Kornbluth shows brilliantly how, when those actually found guilty and sentenced for crimes against Jews challenged the verdicts, the description of facts would be totally changed between the original trial and the appeals trial, exonerating the perpetrators and strengthening the legend of Polish innocence. -- Konstanty Gebert * Moment *This is an excellent study and an important contribution to the ongoing discussion about collaboration, retribution, and justice in postwar Poland…A must read for anyone interested in the long-term consequences of crimes committed on the ‘margins of the Holocaust.’ -- Anna Cichopek-Gajraj * Antisemitism Studies *Excellent…Complicating the dominant Polish myth of heroic resistance, The August Trials provides a rich, sobering account of how Poles perpetrated and then evaded responsibility for many heinous Holocaust crimes. -- Catherine Epstein * Canadian Journal of History *The narratives Kornbluth has pieced together from interrogation and trial transcripts are extraordinary, telling stories that prompt anger, outrage, and reflection. This impressive work is unprecedented in providing an understanding of Poland’s legal reckoning with World War II. The results bear comparison with and lessons for ongoing attempts to master violent pasts around the world. -- Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in HistoryA brilliant and courageous book. The story Kornbluth exposes is deeply tragic, for it shows that in World War II Poland heroic resistance to the Nazis was accompanied by the treacherous collaboration of those who betrayed Jewish fellow citizens. After the war, despite thousands of trials of collaborators, Polish Communists asserted the wartime innocence of all Poles, cobbling together a usable past that exonerated their compatriots. History is a heavy burden in this tale, but facing it boldly is the most important first step in lifting that burden. -- Ronald Grigor Suny, author of Stalin: Passage to RevolutionA pathbreaking, vital, and engaging work. Kornbluth’s engrossing account of the possibilities and impossibilities of justice in postwar Poland allows us to see into the dynamics of Holocaust violence and memory in revealing new ways. -- James Loeffler, author of Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth CenturyHow did Poland’s Communists gain traction in the most anti-Communist society in Europe? In this landmark study, Kornbluth gives an unsettling answer: it was by fostering the corrosive myth that Poland was the one society in occupied Europe to avoid complicity with the Nazis. He revises not only our view of Communist Poland, but of the history of the Holocaust in Poland. -- John Connelly, author of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965Kornbluth’s superbly readable book takes as its focus a largely neglected aspect of the legal response to the Holocaust: the postwar Polish trials of Poles who committed crimes against their Jewish compatriots. This sensitive, groundbreaking study offers an important and sophisticated meditation on the limits of justice and the lure of myth-making when it comes to a nation’s reckoning with a history of collective crimes. -- Lawrence Douglas, author of The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
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Harvard University Press Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes
Book SynopsisThe first English-language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, the “spiritual father” of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this book contextualizes Dontsov’s works, activities, and identity formation diachronically, reconstructing the cultural, political, urban, and intellectual milieus within which he developed and disseminated his worldview.Trade ReviewIn addition to providing a thoroughly-researched story of Dontsov’s ideas and their evolution, Erlacher puts them into their proper historical context, providing an excellent overview of Ukrainian history in the early twentieth century. The picture of Dontsov that emerges is complex and controversial…[An] impressive work…A very useful tool for those that would like to understand the origins of the ideas that fueled Ukrainian nationalists and to do so in a way that is free from both Soviet propaganda and the patriotic fervor of some of the more recent Ukrainian historians. -- Maria Genkin * Apofenie *A nuanced, balanced, and much needed transnational intellectual history…Dontsov, his life, work, and thought have been presented in all their messy complexity. Those interested in Ukrainian integral nationalism will profit from reading this enlightening book. -- Patrice M. Dabrowski * Canadian Slavonic Papers *Erlacher has written the first definitive English language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, a scholarly tour de force…His study will provide an important addition to the relatively small number of academic studies of Ukrainian nationalism that are available in the English language. -- Taras Kuzio * Europe–Asia Studies *Engaging…A welcome contribution to European intellectual history as well as Russian, East European, and Ukrainian history. -- William Risch * Russian Review *Perhaps the most influential Ukrainian thinker of the twentieth century, Dmytro Dontsov underwent an ideological evolution that highlighted the trends common for much of East Central Europe. An unorthodox Marxist early on, he became the principal ideologue of interwar radical nationalism, then turned religious and conservative as an émigré in North America. It is impossible to understand Ukrainian nationalism without Dontsov, even if his flirtations with fascism represented a dead-end that was the opposite of the civic version of national identity embraced by post-Soviet, independent Ukraine. A tour-de-force of intellectual history, Trevor Erlacher’s book is a must for any person interested in Ukraine and its diaspora, as well as in the radical right of interwar Europe. -- Serhy Yekelchyk, author of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to KnowUkrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes makes an important contribution to the study of the history of Ukrainian integral nationalism. Basing his study on the intellectual biography of the movements of main ideologue, Dmytro Dontsov, Trevor Erlacher explores the history of integral nationalism from its roots in the late Russian Empire all the way to the Cold War, examining it in various regional, cultural, and intellectual contexts. Erlacher shows how Dontsov’s views were shaped by widely varied experience: by living on political and cultural frontiers (first, in the Russian-Ukrainian state and later in the Ukrainian-Polish state), by his cosmopolitan interests and goals, and by his life journey, which took him to a number of different countries. This is, to date, the most successful endeavor to write a complete intellectual biography of perhaps the most controversial of Ukrainian political thinkers. The book is a must-read for students of nationalism in general and Eastern Europe and Ukraine in particular, and it will certainly find its way to a broad audience. -- Oleksandr Zaitsev, author of A Nationalist in the Age of Fascism: Dmytro Dontsov’s Lviv Period (1922–39)The son of a merchant in small-town, Russified Ukraine, Dmytro Dontsov experienced World War I and the Ukrainian struggle for independence and soon became the chief Ukrainian publicist propagating fanatical violence, hatred of Russians and Jews, and an alliance with Nazi Germany despite its anti-Ukrainian policies. Traveling widely and imitating foreign ideas and institutions, Dontsov was not only xenophobic but also cosmopolitan. His authoritarianism was accompanied by an iconoclastic dismissal of Ukrainian traditions and most of his fellow Ukrainians, including nationalist devotees. This book by Trevor Erlacher shows and explains in meticulous, spell-binding detail how this highly polarizing figure became the spiritual father of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. -- Karel C. Berkhoff, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and author of Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule
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Harvard University Press Evolutionary Governance in China
Book SynopsisAn evolutionary framework is used to examine how the Chinese state relates with non-state actors across several fields of governance. This approach provides insight into the circumstances wherein the party-state exerts its coercive power versus engaging in more flexible responses or policy adaptations.
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Harvard University Press Visions of Inequality
Book SynopsisBranko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differently each conceived of inequality, and how the subject, prominent in their times, was eclipsed during the Cold War and has become central once again.Trade ReviewA timely book that brings the weight of the past to bear on one of the most pressing issues of our time…Milanovic is a clear and direct writer, unafraid of making strong judgements and with an idiosyncratic eye for detail. That makes for original, and sometimes amusingly wry, revelations. -- Darrin M. McMahon * Literary Review *Inequality is back, as a political topic and as a focus of study. In this fascinating book, Milanovic, one of the world’s most influential scholars of inequality, examines what leading economists of the past have had to say on this issue. -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *A history of the changing ways economists have broached the subject [of inequality] since the French Revolution…[Milanovic] describes how Western economists were in thrall to an unholy combination of extremely simplistic assumptions and extremely complex mathematical models. -- Jennifer Szalai * New York Times *For anybody interested in inequality—and we all should be—anything by Milanovic is an essential read…This book is a great scene setter for the modern debate, not least in illustrating the link between ideas of inequality and the times in which ideas are formed. -- Diane Coyle * Enlightened Economist *An in-depth contextual analysis of how economic minds from Adam Smith to Karl Marx have shaped our understanding of class, income and wealth…This is a vital reference for the economic and philosophical theories underpinning our understanding of inequality today. -- Tej Parikh * Financial Times *An absorbing account of how thinking about inequality has evolved…Milanovic mixes his methodical examination of the evolution of economic thought about inequality with fascinating portraits of great economists and the society and polity of their times. -- Zia Qureshi * Finance & Development *A captivating journey through the time of ideas, with an impact on current events. -- Julien Damon * Les Echoes *A noted economist examines the thinking of six of his predecessors on how income is distributed and the conditions that favor or hinder the accumulation of wealth. * Kirkus Reviews *[A] sweeping survey of more than 200 years of philosophical thought about inequality. * Publishers Weekly *Fascinating and often surprising, offering new insight into iconic figures like Smith and Marx and unexpected perspectives on their work. Branko Milanovic shows that the writings of centuries past have much to teach us about inequality, especially about class and power. A truly important book. -- Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate in Economic SciencesWhat do we talk about when we talk about economic inequality? To those who came of age after the 2008 financial crisis and Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century—an era marked by a widening fracture between rich and poor, especially within Western nations—the question might seem obvious. But as Branko Milanovic shows in his indispensable chronicle of the concept, we underestimate just how young, limited, and fraught our current understanding of inequality is—and how diverse its range of forebears. Researched with forensic thoroughness, and hardly shy about its political implications, Visions of Inequality presents a rare and rewarding combination of economic and conceptual history. -- Anton Jäger, Catholic University of LeuvenA fascinating journey across the history of economic thought through the lens of inequality. Milanovic’s erudite and thought-provoking exploration casts new light both on the analysis of income concentration and on the ideological travails of economics as a discipline. -- Ingrid Bleynat, King's College LondonImagine being able to ask Smith, Marx, and Pareto round for dinner and a chat about how each of them sees inequality. In effect, that’s what Branko Milanovic does in this new book. As he shows, economists’ interest in the subject is by no means a new phenomenon—but what counts, and who counts, in any analysis of inequality has varied dramatically over time. Recognizing this fact should make us reflect on how our own contemporary assays of inequality are more limited than we think. Taking us on an eye-opening tour from Quesnay to Kuznets, Milanovic shows us how inequality and capitalism have always intertwined. -- Mark Blyth, Brown University
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Harvard University Press The China Questions 2
Book SynopsisThe China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in USChina relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting a new Cold War mindset, the authors call for dealing with the world's most important bilateral relationship on its own terms.Trade ReviewA fresh, lively and insightful book that can be read by student and specialist alike in search of a synoptic view of the relationship. -- John Delury * Global Asia *A timely book. For general readers and students alike, these concise essays on critical aspects of the US-China relationship work very well. An impressive roster of authors collectively provides a broad overview of the many aspects of the relationship, going well beyond diplomacy and politics. The essays also work beautifully by themselves. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea RelationsFocusing on the turbulent bilateral relationship between China and the United States, The China Questions 2 offers a wide range of accessible essays on topics from international relations to culture, in a tone that is lively and argumentative but always balanced. Overall, the book has a powerful message: the United States needs informed and clear-eyed engagement with China. -- Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New NationalismRequired reading. The authors are a who’s who of American scholars on US–China relations, and the topics include virtually everything that would be of concern to students, academics, and practitioners. At a time when there are too few books on the relationship generally, this fills a wide gap. The editors have my admiration. -- Stephen A. Orlins, President of the National Committee on United States–China Relations
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Harvard University Press Vietnam
Book SynopsisVietnam focuses on how the country's governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international relations, as well as on the reforms required if it is to become a sustainable and modern high-income nation in the coming decades. This book features work by scholars from Vietnam, North America, and Europe.Trade ReviewIf you are going to read only one book on Vietnam to get up to speed with the state of scholarship on the country, this should be the one. A stellar cast of scholars looking at Vietnam from the rise of the party-state to its socioeconomic and diplomatic evolution gives readers an admirable compendium. -- Nayan Chanda, Ashoka University, former editor of Far Eastern Economic Review This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in how Vietnam transitioned from a poor, isolated country one generation ago to a rising Asian success story. Contributions cover both the economics and the politics of this ongoing transformation. -- David Dollar, Brookings Institution, former World Bank country economist for Vietnam and China This compilation provides a penetrating ringside glimpse into how Vietnam transitioned from a crippled centrally-planned economy into a global trading powerhouse and from a diplomatic pariah into a close partner of the U.S. and the West. The authors, including Vietnamese practitioners in and foreign advisers to the country's remarkable reform, detail the challenges Vietnam faces along the road to becoming a high-income nation, including a rigid political system, rampant corruption, growing economic inequality, serious environmental degradation, and a weak secondary education system. It is an invaluable read for anyone trying to understand this complex and dynamic country. -- Murray Hiebert, Center for Strategic and International Studies, author of Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge This is a critically important book that will be embraced by scholars of Vietnam and economic/political development more generally. The editors have assembled an astounding group of experts in a range of specialties from political science to economics to health to diplomatic history. Each chapter provides new insights that will enrich the knowledge of even long-term students of the country. -- Edmund Malesky, Duke University How can a communist party state coexist with a plural society? Read this book to find out! -- Stein Tonnesson, Peace Research Institute Oslo
£60.76
Harvard University Press Vietnam
Book SynopsisVietnam focuses on how the country's governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international relations, as well as on the reforms required if it is to become a sustainable and modern high-income nation in the coming decades. This book features work by scholars from Vietnam, North America, and Europe.Trade ReviewIf you are going to read only one book on Vietnam to get up to speed with the state of scholarship on the country, this should be the one. A stellar cast of scholars looking at Vietnam from the rise of the party-state to its socioeconomic and diplomatic evolution gives readers an admirable compendium. -- Nayan Chanda, Ashoka University, former editor of Far Eastern Economic Review This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in how Vietnam transitioned from a poor, isolated country one generation ago to a rising Asian success story. Contributions cover both the economics and the politics of this ongoing transformation. -- David Dollar, Brookings Institution, former World Bank country economist for Vietnam and China This compilation provides a penetrating ringside glimpse into how Vietnam transitioned from a crippled centrally-planned economy into a global trading powerhouse and from a diplomatic pariah into a close partner of the U.S. and the West. The authors, including Vietnamese practitioners in and foreign advisers to the country's remarkable reform, detail the challenges Vietnam faces along the road to becoming a high-income nation, including a rigid political system, rampant corruption, growing economic inequality, serious environmental degradation, and a weak secondary education system. It is an invaluable read for anyone trying to understand this complex and dynamic country. -- Murray Hiebert, Center for Strategic and International Studies, author of Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge This is a critically important book that will be embraced by scholars of Vietnam and economic/political development more generally. The editors have assembled an astounding group of experts in a range of specialties from political science to economics to health to diplomatic history. Each chapter provides new insights that will enrich the knowledge of even long-term students of the country. -- Edmund Malesky, Duke University How can a communist party state coexist with a plural society? Read this book to find out! -- Stein Tonnesson, Peace Research Institute Oslo
£32.26
Harvard University Press From Rebel to Ruler
Book SynopsisOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP’s rise and rule. The party has suffered self-inflicted wounds yet thrived thanks to its flexibility. Looking ahead, Saich assesses how the CCP is adapting to global leadership and the expectations of China’s growing middle class.Trade ReviewThere is arguably no organization in the world today that is more important to understand than the CCP…Saich’s [book] provides a comprehensive narrative of the CCP from its inception to this day…He is meticulous in his research and descriptions. -- Martin Laflamme * Los Angeles Review of Books *One of the best and clearest treatments of the subject to date…Tony Saich walks us through the myriad transformations the Party and its members have been through: from rebels to survivalists, revolutionaries to crushers of rebellion, and finally to socialist capitalists. With clarity and attention to detail…this is a truly authoritative text on one of the most successful political parties in history. -- Alec Ash * The Wire China *An extremely lucid, insightful history of the Chinese Communist Party. Saich’s readable narrative takes the CCP from its origins as a tiny group of revolutionaries in Shanghai a century ago to the powerful, repressive rulers of a world power today. From Rebel to Ruler should stand as an authoritative account of the party’s development. -- James Mann, author of The China FantasyThe Chinese Communist Party is one of the most important, yet least understood, political organizations in the world today. Saich has produced a superb interpretation of the party for its hundredth anniversary. From Rebel to Ruler is both deep and nuanced in the account of its history, and incisive on the unique combination in the party under Xi Jinping of ideology, pragmatism, and sheer brute force. -- Rana Mitter, author of China’s Good WarThe definitive, candid, and absorbing history of a political organization that counts 90 million members and indisputably rules as America’s most powerful rival. Drawing on priceless contacts made in China over decades, Saich describes how ideological underpinnings, ruthless campaigns, and the ‘coercing of conformity’ pushed the CCP through revolutionary zeal to its current all-powerful position. A vital account, based on magnificent research, that shows the party as a colossal, relentless, and enduring machine. -- Jane Perlez, former Beijing Bureau Chief, New York TimesAn unpretentious, humane, and deeply informed history of the Chinese Communist Party. Saich, whose considerable time in China adds depth and understanding to this excellent book, offers a clear narrative that does justice to the earlier history as well as present concerns. This will be our most reliable account of the history of the CCP for a generation. -- Timothy Cheek, author of The Intellectual in Modern Chinese HistorySaich is a surehanded and deeply knowledgeable guide in this highly accessible tour of the entire sweep of the Chinese Communist Party’s century-long history. While the party now projects a self-image of unity, competence, and strength, Saich recounts a narrative replete with internal strife, uncertainty, and deep-seated insecurity. His reflections on the future of the party, and China, are sobering. -- Andrew G. Walder, author of China Under MaoA sweeping history of the Chinese Communist Party, from its fledgling urban beginnings in 1921 Shanghai to today…Offers key insights into how the party survived the collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe and the steep challenges facing current leader Xi Jinping. This exhaustive, well-informed chronicle sheds light on one of the world’s most consequential political institutions. * Publishers Weekly *Gives a broad overview of the main characters, movements, and ideologies that have shaped the CCP… Saich provides a different angle by focusing on the inner workings, strategy, and personalities of the Chinese Communist Party…Presents the Party, in all its complexity, on its own terms. Saich is not simply offering commentary from an outside point of view, he is attempting to give readers the tools to access the CCP as they see themselves. * ChinaSource *If you were to travel back in time to 1921 and predict that the Communist Party of China would rule over the world’s second-largest economy 100 years later, no one would believe you. In this definitive primer, Tony Saich explains how the impossible came true. -- Yuen Yuen Ang * Project Syndicate *
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Harvard University Press The Formation of the Soviet Union Rev ed Paper
Book SynopsisHere is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence of a multinational Communist state. Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area—first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.Trade ReviewReviews of the first edition:Simply to chronicle the highly complicated sequence of events in the ethnic borderlands of Russia during the tumultuous years between 1917 and 1923 is a difficult problem by itself. Richard Pipes has not only accomplished this task…but he has given this complex story meaning and perspective. * Political Science Quarterly *The most lucid description of the nationalist revolutionary upheavals following the October revolution. * International Journal *Pipes has succeeded remarkably well in elucidating a most complex subject and in giving a systematic, well-documented, and well-written account of the stormy years, 1917–1923. * Russian Review *Table of Contents1. The National Problem in Russia The Russian Empire on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution National Movements in Russia The Ukrainians and Belorussians. The Turkic Peoples. The Peoples of the Caucasus. Socialism and the National Problem in Western and Central Europe Russian Political Parties and the National Problem Lenin and the National Question before 1913 Lenin's Theory of Self-Determination 2. 1917 and The Disintegration of the Russian Empire The General Causes The Ukraine and Belorussia The Rise of the Ukrainian Central Rada (February-June 1917). From July to the October Revolution in the Ukraine. Belorussia in 1917. The Moslem Borderlands The All-Russian Moslem Movement. The Crimea in 1917. Bashkiriia and the Kazakh-Kirghiz Steppe. Turkestan and the Autonomous Government of Kokand. The Caucasus The Terek Region and Daghestan. Transcaucasia. The Bolsheviks in Power 3. Soviet Conquest of the Ukraine and Belorussia The Fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada The Communist Party of the Ukraine: Its Formation and Early Activity (1918) The Struggle of the Communists for Power in the Ukraine in 1919 Belorussia from 1918 to 1920 4. Soviet Conquest of the Moslem Borderlands The Moslem Communist Movement in Soviet Russia (1918) The Bashkir and Tatar Republics The Kirghiz Republic Turkestan The Crimea 5. Soviet Conquest of the Caucasus The Transcaucaslan Federation Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus and Eastern Transcaucasia (1918) The Terek Region. Baku. The Independent Republics (1918-19) Azerbaijan. Armenia. Georgia. The Prelude to the Conquest The Conquest The Fall of Azerbaijan. The Fall of Armenia. The Fall of Georgia. 6. The Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics The Consolidation of the Party and State Apparatus The RSPSR. Relations between the RSFSR and the other Soviet Republics. The People's Republics. The Opposition to Centralization Nationalist Opposition: Enver Pasha and the Basmachis. Nationalist-Communist Opposition: Sultan-Galiev. Communist Opposition: the Ukraine. Communist Opposition: Georgia. Formulation of Constitutional Principles of the Union Lenin's Change of Mind The Last Discussion of the Nationality Question Conclusion Chronology of Principal Events Ethnic Distribution of Population, 1897 and 1926 The System of Transliteration Bibliography Notes Index
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Harvard University Press From the Other Shore Russian Social Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. The Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia, functioned abroad in the West for a generation. For several years they also continued to operate underground in Soviet Russia, and succeeded in impressing their views on social democratic parties and Western thinking about the U.S.S.R.Trade Review[An] important new book...From the Other Shore raises the question of what would have happened if the Mensheviks had prevailed in 1917. Would they have gone the route of the Bolsheviks, laying the groundwork for the repressive totalitarianism to follow? Or would they have found another path committing themselves to a radical transformation of Russian society while at the same time...respecting the political liberties of their opponents?...Although Liebich identifies closely with Martov's group, he avoids the temptation of reading back into its history an early and absolute division from the Bolsheviks...Liebich asks us to see the Mensheviks as something more than political losers. They stand, he writes, 'at the very heart of the crisis of Marxism.' Our judgment of them as political actors and thinkers--as a possible alternative leadership for a revolutionary Russia--can help determine whether Marxism has any legitimate claim as a serious and honorable political tradition or deserves nothing better than its current consignment to the dustbin of history. -- Maurice Isserman * New York Times Book Review *This book is a tremendous piece of scholarship, charting the evolution of the Russian Menshevik leaders during 40 years of exile and their influence within the wider social-democratic parties, especially in Germany and Austria for uncovering the extent of their influence and the significance of their analyses, Professor Liebich deserves our gratitude. -- Paul Hampton * Workers' Liberty *While the Bolsheviks have long had books--even libraries--devoted to them, the Mensheviks have had to wait until now for a first-rate account of their work and fate. André Liebich...has finally done justice to a group which history had dealt with unjustly. -- Theodore Draper * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPart 1 The Menshevik Family: a group portrait; a portrait gallery. Part 2 1903-1921: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks - a phenomenology of factions, the second congress and its aftermath, revolutionary rehearsal, after the revolution (1905), into the Great War; from exile to exile - war, revolution, facing Bolshevik power, within the party, personal itineraries. Part 3 1921-1933: inside and outside - settling into exile, the political economy of NEP, the nature of NEP Russia, the party underground, watching the Kremlin; Mensheviks and the wider world - into the international arena, Menshevik foreign relations, fraternal parties; Stalin's revolution - the great turn, socialist debates, the Menshevik trial. Part 4 1933-1965: hard times - life in France, contacts, the totalitarian nexus, purges and politics, search for unity, division and defeat; sea change - new roads and old, the last of the Martov line, the end of the foreign delegation, waging the Cold War, the American file, the final campaign; conclusion.
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Harvard University Press From Reform to Revolution
Book SynopsisThe demise of communism in the former Soviet Union and the massive political and economic changes in China are the stunning transformations of our century. Two central questions are emerging: Why did different communist systems experience different patterns of transition? Why did partial reforms in the Soviet Union and China turn into revolutions?Trade ReviewThis is an immensely exciting, sustained analytical effort ...this book is quite likely to become a classic in its field. * Pacific Review *From Reform to Revolution makes an important contribution...and is likely to endure as a landmark study in the field. * Journal of Asian Studies *The first comprehensive effort to compare the recent political experiences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China by tracing their overlapping and diverging paths of regime change...Very tightly argued and erudite. -- Philippe C. Schmitter * Russian Review *An outstanding scholarly work with a powerful argument, reams of relevant data, and a crisp, succinct presentation. It is among the very best of its genre. -- Barrett McCormick * China Journal *Breathtaking...Pei is original in exploring and explaining the conventional wisdom that China’s Communist regime survived reform and the Soviet Union’s did not because one undertook economic reform first and the other political reform first. What is breathtaking is...the author's range and detail, comprehending not only his native China, but the vast literature on the former USSR and its more than a dozen ‘republics.’ -- James A. Robinson * American Journal of Chinese Studies *Pei’s approach to sociopolitical change is rational-analytical. Rational social actors follow their interests, societies are seen as being governed by explicable laws within a systematic general comparative theory; any significant event has its (though ex post) explanation. Frequent references to past and present masters of social and political theory reveal the scholarly tradition and pedagogical skill of the author. Moreover, the reader cannot but admire the clarity of the narrative; concepts are always clearly defined, questions explicitly formulated, the style is balanced and accurate. The reader is invited to share a feel of rich factual complexity as well as a chess-like lawful quality in the flow of events. -- Ludek Rychetnik * Reviewing Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction Regime Transition in Communist States Explaining the Tocqueville Paradox China's Capitalist Revolution The Private Sector under Perestroika The Self-Liberalization of China's Mass Media The Liberal Takeover of the Soviet Mass Media under Glasnost Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index
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