The First Three Internationals, Their History and Lessons
Author: George Edward Novack
Publisher: New York : Pathfinder Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 216
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Author: George Edward Novack
Publisher: New York : Pathfinder Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 844
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Freedom House
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781442217942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of the state of human freedom around the world investigates such crucial indicators as the status of civil and political liberties and provides individual country reports.
Author: James H. Billington
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 0765804719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.
Author: Jo Guldi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1316165256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Guldi and David Armitage identify a recent shift back to longer-term narratives, following many decades of increasing specialisation, which they argue is vital for the future of historical scholarship and how it is communicated. This provocative and thoughtful book makes an important intervention in the debate about the role of history and the humanities in a digital age. It will provoke discussion among policymakers, activists and entrepreneurs as well as ordinary listeners, viewers, readers, students and teachers. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Guy Debord
Publisher: Bread and Circuses Publishing
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1617508306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.
Author: Karl Polanyi
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 315
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. B. Rose
Publisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 124
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