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  • The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815

    by Curtis P. Nettels ...
    Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev

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    In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin’s pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century. Using recently ... Read more

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  • The S Word

    A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism

    by John Nichols ...
    This fascinating history of socialism is “a chilling reminder of how much rich American history has been erased by shallow messaging” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine).During the Cold War, it became a dirty word in the United States, but “socialism” runs like a red thread through the nation’s history, an integral part of its political consciousness since the founding of the republic. In ... Read more

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  • Witness to the German Revolution

    by Victor Serge ...
    Dispatches from a workers' revolt by the Memoirs of a Revolutionary author, "one of the most compelling of twentieth-century ethical and literary heroes" (Susan Sontag, winner of the National Book Award).Following in the wake of the carnage reaped across Europe by World War I, German workers undertook a struggle that would prove decisive in determining the course of the entire twentieth century. ... Read more

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  • Power Trip

    The Epilogue

    by Damian McBride ...
    "Explosive" – Daily Telegraph"Utterly gripping" – The Scotsman"Racy, lucid and very well-informed" – Evening Standard"Achingly vivid and horribly revealing" – BookTalk"Devastatingly forthright" – Sunday Times"Tremendous" – Sunday Times***From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at ... ... Read more

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  • After Occupy

    Economic Democracy for the 21st Century

    by Tom Malleson ...
    These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in complex systems as just a few reasons why the system is flawed. The Occupy movement in 2011 proved that ... Read more

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  • The Naked God

    The Writer and the Communist Party

    by Howard Fast ...
    Fast's book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The bestselling author of Spartacus and ... Read more

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  • Guy Burgess

    The Spy Who Knew Everyone

    by Stewart Purvis, Jeff Hulbert ...
    Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker, with a contacts book that included everyone from statesmen to socialites, high-ranking government officials to the famous actors and literary figures of the day. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously, and often simultaneously, for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry of Information and the KGB. Despite ... Read more

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  • Deng Xiaoping

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine ...
    Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Revolution: Towards a Non-Leninist Marxism

    by Lenny Flank ...
    A critique of authoritarian Leninism from the viewpoint of "council communism". Social revolutionaries must reject the failed leninist model as being unsuited to the social conditions existing in the industrialized nations. It is clear that our revolutionary methods and organizations must be broad-based, mass-supported, and based on the decentralized self-organization of the producers. ... Read more

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  • Sociology, Capitalism, Critique

    by Hartmut Rosa, Stephan Lessenich, Klaus Dörre ...
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    Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalismFor years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an empirically grounded ... Read more

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  • The Communist Movement in the Arab World

    by Tareq Y. Ismael ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    This book examines the communist movement in the Arab world from the time of the Russian revolution until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It traces the interaction of the world communist movement which was characterized by an uncritical acceptance of Marxism-Leninism, and local communists, who moved from initial dependence on Moscow to a position more adapted to local circumstances and ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD