Socialist Thought and Practice
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 826
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Marxism and Socialist Theory
Author: Michael Albert
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses previous theories such as orthodox marxism, feminism, and nationalism, and proposes a unique new perspective for developing an alternative socialist vision.
Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
Author: Richard West
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0571281109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew figures have dominated a nation's destiny as much as Marshal Tito of former Yugoslavia. For nearly thirty years he held together mutually hostile religious groups in a deeply divided country, but his death in 1980 rekindled centuries-old hatreds and by 1992 Yugoslavia ceased to exist. In this revealing biography, Richard West questions the full impact of Tito's reign of power and his implicit responsibility for the ensuing violent, bloody war in Bosnia. 'Excellent ... I recommend his book for those who already know about Yugoslavia and want food for thought about the future.' David Owen, Sunday Times 'Admirable ... Carefully researched and extremely readable.' Literary Review 'A passionate book, in which West's historical sense is interlaced with his own very intimate knowledge of Yugoslavia from the late 1940s on and of the poignancy of [subsequent] events.' Fergus Pyle, Irish Times 'Masterly'. Glasgow Herald
Jean Jaurès
Author: Geoffrey Kurtz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-10
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0271065826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy, Geoffrey Kurtz introduces Jaurès to an American audience. The parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism from the 1890s until his assassination in 1914, Jaurès was the only major socialist leader of his generation who was educated as a political philosopher. As he championed the reformist method that would come to be called social democracy, he sought to understand the inner life of a political tradition that accepts its own imperfection. Jaurès's call to sustain the tension between the ideal and the real resonates today. In addition to recovering the questions asked by the first generation of social democrats, Kurtz’s aim in this book is to reconstruct Jaurès’s political thought in light of current theoretical and political debates. To achieve this, he gives readings of several of Jaurès’s major writings and speeches, spanning work from his early adulthood to the final years of his life, paying attention to not just what Jaurès is saying, but how he says it.
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Author: Library of Congress
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 1000
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Author: Jessica Greenberg
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2014-05-07
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0804791171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent revolution in Serbia. Greenberg's narrative highlights the stories of young student activists as they seek to define their role and articulate a new form of legitimate political activity, post-socialism. When student activists in Serbia helped topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000, they unexpectedly found that the post-revolutionary period brought even greater problems. How do you actually live and practice democracy in the wake of war and the shadow of a recent revolution? How do young Serbians attempt to translate the energy and excitement generated by wide scale mobilization into the slow work of building democratic institutions? Greenberg navigates through the ranks of student organizations as they transition their activism from the streets back into the halls of the university. In exploring the everyday practices of student activists—their triumphs and frustrations—After the Revolution argues that disappointment is not a failure of democracy but a fundamental feature of how people live and practice it. This fascinating book develops a critical vocabulary for the social life of disappointment with the aim of helping citizens, scholars, and policymakers worldwide escape the trap of framing new democracies as doomed to failure.
Entangled Paths Towards Modernity
Author: Augusta Dimou
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9789639776388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an important and innovative comparative study of socialist movements and regimes of modernization in the Balkans, encompassing Serbian populism, Bulgarian social democracy and Greek communism. It makes an original contribution both to the history of political ideas and to the political sociology of radical and socialist movements. It provides a fascinating account of the transplantation of ideologies that were adopted from Western Europe and from Russia into the very different environment of the Balkans, and traces their adaptation and their reception in this new environment. Book jacket.
A World to Build
Author: Marta Harnecker
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015-01-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1583674683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarnecker offers a useful overview of the changing political map in Latin America, examining the trajectories of several progressive Latin American governments as they work to develop alternative models to capitalism.--Provided by publisher.
Socialist Planning
Author: Michael Ellman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1107074738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of socialist planning that explains the underlying theory and its limitations, also placing developments in their historical perspective.
Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire
Author: Richard Becker
Publisher: PSL Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 0984122001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine--from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for US interests, to present day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution. The narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a neccesary contribution to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.This book contains a complete index and a timeline of developments in the history of Palestine.
