Shawn Frederick McHale, "Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam"
English | 2008 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 082483304X | PDF | 2,2 mb
In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed matter soared between 1920 and 1945 and in the process transformed Vietnamese public life and shaped the modern Vietnamese consciousness.

New Perspectives in Transnational History of Communism in East Central Europe By Krzysztof Brzechczyn (editor)
2019 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 3631771401 | PDF | 4 MB
The book offers a transnational perspective on history of communism in East-Central Europe. It analyzes the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of communist systems and focuses on different forms of resistance and ways of its remembering. The transnational look is manifested through an analysis of the usefulness of the models applied in research of the past, an investigation of some historical phenomena in the context of mutual relations between particular countries (e.g. Poland and East Germany), republics of Soviet Union (Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia) and between the East and the West relations (peace movement in Poland and Netherlands). Moreover, selected aspects of the past (consumerism in Bulgaria or economic management in Romania) are analyzed with the use of categories useful in transnational research.

The Totalitarian Paradigm After the End of Communism: Towards a Theoretical Reassessment By Achim Siegel (ed.)
1998 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 9042005521 | PDF | 40 MB
Concepts of totalitarianism have undergone an academic revival in recent years, particularly since the breakdown of communist systems in Europe in 1989-91: the totalitarian paradigm, so it seems to many scholars today, had been discarded prematurely in the heat of the Cold War. The demise of communism as a social system is, however, not only an important cause of the recurring attractiveness of the totalitarian paradigm, but provides at the same time new evidence and, correspondingly, new problems of explanation for all approaches in communist studies and totalitarianism theory in particular. This book contains articles by philosophers, social scientists and historians who reassess the validity of the totalitarian approach in the light of the recent historical developments in Eastern Europe. A first group of authors focus on the analytical usefulness and explanatory power of classic concepts of totalitarianism after having observed the failed reforms of the Gorbachev-era and the collap

David Goodman, "Communism and Reform in East Asia (RLE Modern East and South East Asia) "
English | ISBN: 1138901326 | 2015 | 164 pages | EPUB | 295 KB
The West no longer regards communism in East Asia as a threat. On the contrary, because the communist party states of East Asia appear to be undergoing a process of reform directed primarily at economic modernization, it is now regarded as a potential market. The West's attitude is reinforced by the recognition of East Asia's economic importance more generally - a perception which in itself undoubtedly stimulated reform in the region's communist party states. The causes, extent and consequences of reform in the East Asian communist party states are the concerns of the contributions to this volume, first published in 1988. It includes chapters on the reform process in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Mongolia; as well as examinations of the roles played by both China and the Soviet Union in the Asia-Pacific region. They demonstrate that a belief in a simple, single process of economic and political liberalization - brought about by the drive for economic modernization, the production imperative - is a misleading argument. Although the production imperative might act as a stimulus to reform, it is neither a sufficient nor even a necessary condition. In individual countries the communist party's search for legitimacy, a change of leadership, or the relationship with the USSR have equally been the spur to reform. The drive for economic modernization may even be a consequence of the communist party's desire to reform rather than a cause. The absence of a uniform pattern does not detract from the potential consequences of economic and political change. These challenge socialist thinking on the nature of collective life, ownership and rural society.

English | ASIN: B0BGVCSW6F | 2022 | 7 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 228 MB
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast Death Panel. Written by cohosts of the hit Death Panel podcast and longtime disability justice and healthcare activists Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie, Health Communism first examines how capital has instrumentalized health, disability, madness, and illness to create a class seen as "surplus," regarded as a fiscal and social burden. Demarcating the healthy from the surplus, the worker from the "unfit" to work, the authors argue, serves not only to undermine solidarity but to mark whole populations for extraction by the industries that have emerged to manage and contain this "surplus" population.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 183976516X | 268 pages | True EPUB | 5.07 MB
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast "Death Panel"
In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health.

Soviet Nightingales: Care under Communism by Susan Grant
English | April 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1501763563, 1501762591 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 30.8 MB

Hugh Seton-Watson, "Nationalism and Communism "
English | ISBN: 1032180382 | 2022 | 254 pages | EPUB | 655 KB
This book, first published in 1964, collects a number of essays united by the general theme of national and social revolution. They examine features of revolutionary movements, and, particularly, revolutionary leadership in an analysis of the social conditions and personal motives which impel men towards forming revolutionary elites.

Scott Morgenstern, "Paths for Cuba: Reforming Communism in Comparative Perspective "
English | ISBN: 0822965496 | 2019 | 376 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Clarence Taylor, "Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0231152698, 023115268X, 0231526482 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 6.0 mb
The New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Established in 1916, the union maintained an early, unofficial partnership with the American Communist Party, winning key union positions and advocating a number of Party goals. Clarence Taylor recounts this pivotal relationship and the backlash it created, as the union threw its support behind controversial policies and rights movements. Taylor's research reaffirms the party's close ties with the union-yet it also makes clear that the organization was anything but a puppet of Communist power.