Socialism & Left-of-centre Democratic Ideologies

In 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The ...

A famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective.   Thirty-two years after its initial publication, this respected soci...

There is mounting evidence throughout the world that democracy is in retreat. This can be stopped and repaired by infusing it with action, beliefs,...

Theorists have often returned to the work of Marx, to interpret and better understand global developments and current political and economic crisis...

Has the left turn come to a definite end? What have been the legacies of the left turn and how can they be measured? Who are the key actors shaping...

Examines how the control of land affects production, profit, prices and inequality in today's cities For the first time, this book brings together...

Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

A masterful account of the global Cold Wars decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down th...

First-person narratives of refugees, immigrants, and generations-long residents in Appalachia, highlighting how spaces of belonging, home, and conn...

It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution, Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanat...

Examines the relationship between the British left and national identity in socialism's formative years. It is generally assumed that the language...

In this book, Ibrahim employs Bourdieu's key concepts in order to explain the complex dynamics of social movements by detailing the key stages of d...

Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland's first socialist city by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work be...

'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative exposé of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revise...

Following the election of Hugo Chavez to the Venezuelan presidency, and the Cochabamba water wars, Latin American politics were radicalised and the...

Utah, now one of the most conservative states, has a long tradition of left-wing radicalism. Early Mormon settlers set a precedent with the United ...

'For its historical depth, analytical vigour and mobilizational potential, this book is unparalleled ... every page is an urgent invitation to resi...

The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first entered the pr...