- Apostles and Agitators
- Richard Drake
- One of the most controversial questions in Italy today concerns the origins of the political terror that ravaged the country from 1969 to 1984, when the Red Brigades, a Marxist revolutionary organization, intimidated, maimed, and murdered on a wide scale. In this timely study of the ways in which 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, examining its origins and internal tensions, the men who shaped it, and its impact and legacy in Italy.
- Hardcover 2003
- Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965
- Donald W. Klein
- Anne B. Clark
- The Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, first published in 1970, provides biographies of 433 influential figures of the Chinese Communist Party in the years from 1921 to 1965. Each biography contains all information then available on the person's family, education, socio-economic status, early revolutionary activity, and career after the Communists came to power in 1949, as well as the dates and purposes of all foreign trips, information about important writings, and involvement in all kinds of Party activities.
- Hardcover 1971
- Blood of Brothers
- With New Afterword
- Stephen Kinzer
- Foreword by Merilee S. Grindle
- Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens. Blood of Brothers is Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, as well as a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people.
- Paperback 2007
- The Broken Wave
- Roy Hofheinz, Jr
- The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.
- Hardcover 1977
- China and Charles Darwin
- James Reeve Pusey
- This study evaluates Darwin's theory of evolution as a stimulus to Chinese political changes and philosophic challenge to traditional Chinese beliefs. Pusey bases his analysis on a survey of journals issued from 1896 to 1910 and, after a break for revolutionary action, from 1915 to 1926, with emphasis on the era between the Sino-Japanese War and the Republician Revolution.
- Hardcover 1983
- China's Trapped Transition
- Minxin Pei
- In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party's reform strategy--pursuing pro-market economic policies under one-party rule. Combining powerful insights with empirical research, China's Trapped Transition offers a provocative assessment of China's future as a great power.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao
- Benjamin I. Schwartz
- Paperback
- Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History
- Albert Feuerwerker
- S. Cheng
- Hardcover 1961
- Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation
- James E. Mace
- Hardcover 1983
- Comrades!
- Robert Service
- Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day, offering vivid portraits of its protagonists and decisive events. Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries, reaching the uncomfortable conclusion that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still alive.
- Hardcover 2007
- Constructing the Monolith
- Marc J. Selverstone
- This book not only explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century, but reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.
- Hardcover 2009
- The Contested Country
- Aleksa Djilas
- Published amid the unraveling of the second Yugoslavia, The Contested Country lays bare the roots of the idea of Yugoslav unity--its conflict with the Croatian and Serbian national ideologies and its peculiar alliance with liberal and progressive, especially Communist, ideologies.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1996
- Corruption by Design
- Melanie Manion
- This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated.
- Hardcover 2004
- Daniel DeLeon
- L. Glen Seretan
- Hardcover 1979
- Dictatorship and Demand
- Mark Landsman
- An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.
- Hardcover 2005
- Early Chinese Revolutionaries
- Mary Backus Rankin
- Paperback
- Eve and the New Jerusalem
- Barbara Taylor
- Paperback
- The First Socialist Society
- Geoffrey Hosking
- Paperback
- The Formation of the Soviet Union
- Richard Pipes
- Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard 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.
- Paperback 1997
- From Comrade to Citizen
- Merle Goldman
- A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their political rights.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Georg Lukács and His Generation, 1900-1918
- Mary Gluck
- Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine. Lukács emerges in this generational portrait not only as dramatic and psychologically complex but also as a representative figure whose inner dilemmas were echoed in the lives of many other radical intellectuals who came of age during the fin de siêcle period.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991
- German Social Democracy, 1905-1917
- Carl E. Schorske
- Paperback
- Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
- Philip D. Zelikow
- Condoleezza Rice
- The ending of the Cold War division of Europe took place largely backstage, and this book lets us in on the strategies and negotiations, the nerve-racking risks, last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations that brought it off. It is the most authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft to appear in decades. In a new Preface, the authors respond to questions raised in interviews, comment on new sources, and reiterate their theme that many outcomes to unification were possible.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China
- Edited by Elizabeth J. Perry
- Edited by Merle Goldman
- Observers often note the glaring contrast between China's economic progress and its stalled political reforms. This volume, written by experienced scholars, explores a range of grassroots efforts--initiated by the state and society alike--to restrain corrupt behavior and enhance the accountability of local authorities. While the authors offer varying views on the larger significance of these developments, their case studies point to a more dynamic Chinese political system than is often acknowledged.
- Paperback 2007 / Hardcover 2007
- If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?
- G. A. Cohen
- Focusing 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. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War
- Vladislav Zubok
- Constantine Pleshakov
- Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin, who was driven by the dual dream of a Communist revolution and a global empire. They reveal the scope and limits of Stalin's ambitions by taking us into the world of his closest subordinates, the ruthless and unimaginative foreign minister Molotov and the Party's chief propagandist, Zhdanov, a man brimming with hubris and missionary zeal. The authors expose the machinations of the much-feared secret police chief Beria and the party cadre manager Malenkov, who tried but failed to set Soviet policies on a different course after Stalin's death. Finally, they document the motives and actions of the self-made and self-confident Nikita Khrushchev, full of Russian pride and party dogma, who overturned many of Stalin's policies with bold strategizing on a global scale. The authors show how, despite such attempts to change Soviet diplomacy, Stalin's legacy continued to divide Germany and Europe, and led the Soviets to the split with Maoist China and to the Cuban missile crisis.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Japanese Marxist
- Gail Lee Bernstein
- The heir of a samurai family, an acknowledged authority on economics, a professor at one of Japan's leading universities, an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan, a Japanese Communist on his own unique terms, and, finally, the author of an autobiography that is a classic of modern Japanese literature, Kawakami Hajime is an important figure in the history of modern Japan. Bernstein provides a portrait of Kawakami's complex personality as well as a narrative of the context and content of Japanese left-wing politics in the 1920s.
- Paperback 1990
- The Last Revolutionaries
- Catherine Epstein
- Drawing on previously inaccessible sources as well as extensive personal interviews, Catherine 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. At once sordid and poignant, theirs is the story of European communism--from the heroic excitement of its youth, to the bureaucratic authoritarianism of its middle age, to the sorry debacle of its death.
- Hardcover 2003
- Lost Comrades
- Dan White
- Hardcover
- Marxism and Literary History
- John Frow
- Frow's book is a novel contribution to Marxist literary theory, proposing a reconciliation of formalism and historicism in order to establish the basis for a new literary history. Through a critique of his forerunners in Marxist theory, Frow seeks to define the strengths and the limitations of this tradition and then to extend its possibilities in a radical reworking of the concept of discourse.
- Hardcover 1986
- Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany, 1887-1912
- Stanley Pierson
- Hardcover
- The May Fourth Movement
- Tse-tung Chow
- Paperback
- Modern China
- John King Fairbank
- Kwang-Ching Liu
- Hardcover
- Nationalizing the Russian Empire
- Eric Lohr
- In this compelling study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities in the Russian Empire during the First World War, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass deportations, purges, expropriations, and popular violence. A campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign citizens rapidly spun out of control. It swept up Russian subjects of German, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds and drove roughly a million civilians from one part of the empire to another, resulting in one of the largest cases of forced migration in history to that time. Based on extensive archival research, much in newly available sources, Nationalizing the Russian Empire is an important contribution to the study of empire and nationalism, the Russian Revolution, and ethnic cleansing.
- Hardcover 2003
- Selections from Cultural Writings
- Antonio Gramsci, Editor
- David Forgacs, Editor
- Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Editor
- William Boelhower, Translator
- Though he died as Benito Mussolini's prisoner, leaving only newspaper articles and fragmentary notes, Antonio Gramsci is now seen as the most significant Marxist thinker since Lenin. This volume is the first English translation of his writings on culture, organically and coherently edited from his journalism and his Prison Notebooks.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991
- Socialism in Galicia
- John-Paul Himka
- Paperback 1983
- The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed
- Linda Cook
- Hardcover
- Terror in My Soul
- Igal Halfin
- In this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the Bolsheviks enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers, and Party prophets to establish criteria for judging people. Self-inspection became a central Bolshevik practice. Communists were expected to write autobiographies in which they reconfigured their life experience in line with the demands of the Party. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin gives us powerful new insight into the preconditions of the bloodbath that was the Great Purge.
- Hardcover 2003
- Trotsky's Diary in Exile, 1935, Rev. ed
- Leon Trotsky
- Hardcover 1976
- Worker Resistance under Stalin
- Jeffrey J. Rossman
- Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the critical industrializing period of the First Five-Year Plan.
- Hardcover 2005