Edward P. Johanningsmeier, "Forging American Communism"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 069105892X, 0691033315 | PDF | pages: 458 | 29.7 mb
A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z. Foster (1881-1961) fought his way out of the slums of turn-of-the-century Philadelphia to become a professional revolutionary as well as a notorious and feared labor agitator. Drawing on private family papers, FBI files, and recently opened Russian archives, this first full-scale biography traces Foster's early life as a world traveler, railroad worker, seaman, hobo, union activist, and radical journalist, and also probes the origins and implications of his ill-fated career as a top-echelon Communist official and three-time presidential candidate. Even though Foster's long and eventful life ended in Moscow, where he was given a state funeral in Red Square, he was, as portrayed here, a thoroughly American radical.

Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe edited by Paulina Bren, Mary Neuburger
English | September 6, 2012 | ISBN: 0199827656, 0199827672 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 5.2 MB
Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived in its widely varied contexts in the region.

Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels (Some Insubordinate Essays, 1999-2018) By Darko Suvin
2020 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 189513143X | PDF | 4 MB
Communism, Poetry: Communicating Vessels reunites political thought with poetry, its true counterpart and companion in justice. Describing the background of present perpetual warfare, violence and mass lesions, Suvin opens up seemingly disparate subjects like the poetic mastery of Bertolt Brecht and the fate of the former Yugoslavia, and then relates them to each other. Through this approach, the book aims to lay bare the horizon of this current age of political crisis, and dares the reader to look beyond that horizon, to the serious, comprehensive alternative.

From Post-Communism toward the third Millennium: Aspects of Political and Economic Development in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe from 2000-2005 ... Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) By Josette Bär (editor)
2011 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 3039117734 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume presents an overview of the political and economic developments in Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the years 2000 to 2005. Unlike the Central European states that achieved EU membership in 2004 and 2007, the countries in this volume, Bulgaria being the exception, share but one characteristic: diversity. One could call the phenomenon of the region's variety and diversity the Eastern European pluralism of development. The essays present detailed analyses of the region's main problems: corruption and bribery on all levels of society; a lack of transparency of state-business relations; a distinct disinterest in international critique or, rather, a distinct insistence on sovereignty and the refusal to adapt to European humanitarian standards of ethnic and religious tolerance. The essays are based on unique source material from the countries under scrutiny.

the specter of communism: What do you know about Marxism? by EMMA WILLIAM
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B3VL751T | 533 pages | EPUB | 1.85 Mb
Spectre of Communism is a (hi)story-driven turn-based strategy set in the WW2 period.Most modern forms of communism are grounded at least nominally in Marxism, a theory and method conceived by Karl Marx during the 19th century.

20 Years after the Collapse of Communism: Expectations, achievements and disillusions of 1989 (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) By Nicolas Hayoz (editor), Leszek Jesien (editor), Daniela Koleva (editor)
2011 | 679 Pages | ISBN: 3034305389 | PDF | 7 MB
The volume is an attempt to assess the meanings of 1989, in particular the multiple transformation processes and their effects in Eastern Europe. Obviously, the realities of the post-communist transformations have not met the expectations. Were the expectations too high? Did democratic institutions prove incompatible with local cultures? Was their implementation too fast to correspond to a genuine development of democratic culture? Whatever the reasons, the road to democracy has turned out to be steeper and the communist legacy heavier than expected. The authors of this volume seek to comprehend the intricacies of various aspects of the post-communist transition; looking at a broad array of countries that have followed different paths. The studies combine methods of different disciplines. 'Insider' perspectives are juxtaposed with external assessments. This comparative and problem based approach brings into focus the ambiguities of the unfinished transformations as well as their broader cultural contexts: the politics of history and the battles for new memory, the re-signification of past and present, and the problematic transformation of homo sovieticus into an autonomous and responsive subject.

Leonard Weinberg, "The Transformation of Italian Communism"
English | ISBN: 1138517038 | 2018 | 164 pages | EPUB | 892 KB
The end of the cold war and the fall of the Soviet empire have had major consequences for Italian politics. Leonard Weinberg explores some of those consequences, focusing on the transformation of the Italian Communist party from a Leninist to a democratic party. He also discusses the relationship between the end of communism and the unfolding of the entire Italian system.The Transformation of Italian Communism has two objectives. First, it calls the reader's attention to the role of international developments, an important but largely overlooked area involved in the study of European party politics. Traditional texts in this area emphasize domestic factors, but Weinberg focuses on the influence of international developments on domestic party politics in Italy. The implications for other nations are transparent.The second objective of this work is to examine how Italy's Communist party, the largest such party of its kind in the Western world, reacted to the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Weinberg analyzes the meaning of these events for long-tune party members in Italy'as well as for Italian political and cultural life. The Transformation of Italian Communism offers an original, intimate, and unique assessment of how the end of the cold war has affected Italian political culture. It will be a valuable addition to those interested in the convulsions taking place in modem Italy, as well as to political scientists and theorists of political culture.

Bernard S. Morris, "Authority and Control in International Communism: 1917-1967"
English | ISBN: 113851912X | 2017 | 188 pages | EPUB | 1005 KB
Contrary to the American public image of international communism as monolithic, the history of communism has been one of increasingly frequent deviation and dissension - punctuated by a process of defection and expulsion of individuals and entire national parties. In examining the fragmentation of communism as a movement, Bernard S. Morris focuses on the breakdown of its structure of authority as exercised through the organs of control. He analyzes factors contributing to the initial cohesion and later disintegration of the communist movement.The author demonstrates how the artificial attempt to maintain the Marxian vision of world revolution through the agency of the Soviet system faltered and ultimately failed. He shows how tensions between communist doctrine and foreign policy, coupled with the unexpected viability of the capitalist system in the West, accelerated pluralism within the communist movement. This led to Yugoslavia's assertion of independence, the rise of polycentrism in the post-Stalinist era, and the Russo-Chinese split. As we have seen, it ultimately led to the demise of the Soviet Union itself.Morris contends that the collapse of international communist unity underscores the inexorable hold of nationalism on human loyalties. He points out that American policy's obsession with international communism frustrated the development of a realistic policy toward radical nationalist movements which, because they were identified with communism, became equally suspect. Written by an experienced scholar and political analyst, this highly informative work skillfully balances a chronological account with a searching examination of the evolution and gradual disintegration of the dream of world revolution.

English | 2007 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B004XI7F08 | Duration: 8:50 h | 121 MB
Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek / Narrated by Sean Barrett

Yu-ming Shaw, "Changes And Continuities In Chinese Communism: Volume I: Ideology, Politics, And Foreign Policy"
English | ISBN: 0367013983 | 2019 | 420 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A collection of essays split into 4 sections that cover methodology, ideology, Part and Politics and Foreign Affairs. Published in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.