Marxism & Communism

After 1945, state patriotism of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe was characterized by the widespread use of national symbols. In communist H...

This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR. It sheds new light on established questions and addresses issues t...

Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the h...

In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextual...

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin’s call for a new global organization of ...

This collection explores how the British left has interacted with the ‘Irish question’ throughout the twentieth century, the left’s expression of s...

Joseph Stalin was one of the most ruthless and authoritarian dictators in world history, who plunged Russia into a barbarous nightmare, leaving beh...

This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR. It sheds new light on established questions and addresses issues t...

As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-4, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the c...

For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived. Mao Zedong had co...

Christopher Bennett argues that Yugoslavia's disintegration was not, contrary to accepted wisdom, the product of inherent and irrational ethnic ani...

For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the g...

A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute. The history of t...

This collection explores how the British left has interacted with the ‘Irish question’ throughout the twentieth century, the left’s expression of s...

'One of the greatest historians of China' Chris Patten'Balanced, reliable and drawing on the most up-to-date research ... Spence eschews any overal...

A timely book addressing the burning concerns of our times, from the excesses of capitalism to the global crisis of leadership.   There is widespre...

This is a study of the responses of the Soviet Union to the European crises which led to World War II. It is based on a substantial body of politi...

This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before t...

This work surveys processes of party development in the context of the ten years of democratic change in post-communist eastern Europe. It examine...

Is this the right book for me?Marx - The Key Ideas will familiarize you with the revolutionary thinking of this significant man. It will take you t...

The book that immerses the Cold War in the warm bath of nostalgia.Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-...

The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism’s investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any...