Political Ideologies

The Road to Intervention (1988) uses rarely-seen British government papers to analyse the position of the Allied and Russian governments in the las...

The Soviet Communist Party (1986) provides a concise and accessible description, analysis and assessment of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...

The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union. Much...

Constitutional Development in the USSR (1981) looks at the political institutions and practices of the Soviet state through the prism of its own co...

The Cold War Past and Present (1987) analyses the generally antagonistic postwar relations between the Soviet Union and the West, particularly Amer...

Soviet Communism (1989) contains the full text of the 1986 new and significantly revised foundational documents of Soviet Communism, the Programme ...

The Limits of Destalinization in the Soviet Union (1986) examines the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the So...

Gorbachev at the Helm (1987) analyses the policy decisions taken at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February–March ...

Local Government in the Soviet Union (1987) analyses the Soviet Union’s limited success in improving local government between in the 1960s to 1980s...

Contemporary Soviet Government (1975) is a leading study of the practice of Soviet government, examined against a background of Soviet Marxism. It ...

We live in increasingly diverse societies. Human relations are increasingly maintained by widely-used virtual means, with the result that it is bec...

Spanning three parts, Volume 40 of Research in Political Economy explores themes related to various “trajectories of declining and destructive capi...

The prices of some products fluctuate dramatically, while others remain more constant. What accounts for these extreme differences? Renowned econo...

Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe. Received classical and biblical models both influenced how these qualitie...

A new approach to democratic theory that empowers its citizens. Democracy is a complex social system. A Systemic Theory of Democracy investigates t...

Previous scholarship on fascism in Slovakia has focused on either state actors operating from urban centres or the mechanisms of violence on a gras...

As an epicentre of sectarian conflict before and after the Arab uprising, Syria provides an excellent laboratory for the study of sectarianization....

As an epicentre of sectarian conflict before and after the Arab uprising, Syria provides an excellent laboratory for the study of sectarianization....

What does it mean to write in a socialist revolution? What defines labor in a communist society? In revolutionary China, writers were regularly dis...

What does it mean to write in a socialist revolution? What defines labor in a communist society? In revolutionary China, writers were regularly dis...

Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both. The book focuses on the Frankfurt Scho...

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.Hindutva ...

Under the tenure of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the political system in Hungary has moved significantly in an autocratic direction, yet there is a...

Capitalism is in crisis and, according to some, on the verge of collapse. Will this dying system give way to a commons-centric society as many sch...

The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty...

At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result wa...

The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn't he stand for the big catastrop...

A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization. Leading theori...

For most of its history, the American gay movement has been part of the democratic Left. Gay liberation's founders were Communists, and its activis...

Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary ...