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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $11.43
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Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin Buber
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.02
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Publication Date: 1996-09
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Reading Level: 152
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Description: "A summary and scholarly study of humanity's search for the perfect social structure". -- The Christian Science Monitor
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $27.00
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.40973
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Publication Date: 2003-03-24
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Reading Level: 498
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Description: In this definitive history of the evolution of the Communist Party in America - from its early background through its founding in 1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s - Theodore Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy "was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power," a fact that Draper develops in his succeeding volume, American Communism and Soviet Russia. In his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper himself had the final words on American Communism: "It is like a museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has virtually been all things to all men...There are many ways of trying to understand such a movement, but the first task is historical. In some respects, there is no other way to understand it, or at least to avoid seriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends to be static, one-sided or unbalanced." Draper correctly notes that the formative period of the American Communist movement has remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part, the reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues this chapter with deep appreciation for the fact that communism was not something that happened just in Russia, but also in the United States. This is a must read for scholars and lay-persons alike. Both The Roots of American Communism and American Communism and Soviet Russia were commissioned by the Fund for the Republic series on Communism in American Life edited by Clinton Rossiter.
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Price: $33.00
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Sale: $32.00
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 809
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Publication Date: 1991-10-01
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Though he died as Benito Mussolini's prisoner, leaving only newspaper articles and fragmentary notes, Antonio Gramsci is now seen as the most significant Marxist thinker since Lenin. This volume is the first English translation of his writings on culture, organically and coherently edited from his journalism and his Prison Notebooks. Gramsci writes about the popular and the great artists from Jules Verne to Dante, but not as so many timeless monuments. He sees artworks in the context of their reception and their absorption in particular cultures and histories. He is sensitive to the politics of culture as well as to the demands of philological scholarship, as his superb work on Dante in this volume shows. We have in this book Gramsci's changing views on particular literary movements and authors, as well as his ideas on the nature of proletarian and popular cultural criticism. Throughout he is concerned with cultural analysis and strategy rather than literary criticism by itself. The headnotes and footnotes prepared by Forgacs and Nowell-Smith address themselves both to the circumstances surrounding the composition of each segment and to the central problems of contemporary Gramsci scholarship. Antonio Gramsci is the twentieth-century writer who has most brilliantly and suggestively explored the ties that bind culture and politics. The publication of this collection is an event of major significance for theorists of all sorts.
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Price: $35.98
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Sidney Hook
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Edition: Expanded
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4
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Publication Date: 2002-12
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Reading Level: 465
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Description: Published in 1933, at a time of widespread unemployment and bank failures, this book by the young Sidney Hook received great critical acclaim and established his reputation as a brilliant expositor of ideas. By 'revolutionary interpretation', Hook meant quite literally that Marx's main objective was to stimulate revolutionary opposition to class society. Hook later abandoned the revolutionary views expressed in this volume, but he never abandoned his warm positive views of Marx as a thinker and a fighter for freedom. He eventually concluded that 20th century history had proved both him and Marx wrong about the necessity of revolutionary means to achieve their mutual social goals. But, says his son Ernest B Hook in an introduction, this concession of error "he did not see ...as an admission of intellectual weakness, but the natural position of a reasonable person when, in the light of observation and experience, he concludes he has erred."
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Price: $28.00
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Sale: $16.95
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Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Candace Serena Falk
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.83092
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Publication Date: 1990-05
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: Candace Falk's biography captures Goldman's colorful life as a social and labor reformer, revolutionary, anarchist, feminist, agitator for free love and free speech, and advocate of birth control. And it gives the reader a rare glimpse into Goldman as a woman, alone, searching for the intimacy of a love relationship to match her radiant social vision. Falk explores the clash between Goldman's public vision and private life, focusing on her intimate relationship with Ben Reitman, Chicago's celebrated social reformer, hobo king, and red-light district gynecologist. During this passionate and stormy relationship, Goldman lectured in public about free love and women's independence, while in private she struggled with intense jealousy and longed for the comfort of a secure relationship.Falk's account draws upon a serendipitous discovery of a cache of intimate letters between Goldman and Reitman. Falk then goes beyond Goldman's ten-year relationship with Reitman, following Goldman's inner passions through her years of exile and later life. Written with a literary sensitivity, Falk tells a riveting story, consistently placing Goldman in the context of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century radicalism.
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Price: $27.50
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Sale: $158.88
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Chrystia Freeland
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Publisher: Crown
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.947009049
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Publication Date: 2000-09-12
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Always something of an enigma to Westerners, Russia has become a veritable paradox in the decade following its transformation from communism to capitalism. In Sale of the Century, journalist Chrystia Freeland offers a riveting bird's-eye view of this conversion that should prove fascinating to everyone still hoping to do business there, and to anyone intrigued by the erstwhile superpower. Be forewarned, though: Freeland, who began reporting on the country in 1995 as Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, describes a nation of troubling extremes. The nation has evolved into a giddy utopia for some of its citizens, but one unable so far to handle its sudden affluence. The author portrays trendy Versace boutiques and bustling Mercedes-Benz dealerships lining Moscow's fashionable streets, whose sidewalks are patrolled by machine-gun-toting policemen trudging through the corrosive chemical waste used for melting the snow. In well-written first-person accounts, Freeland goes on to describe how scrappy entrepreneurs made overnight fortunes and then lost them just as quickly to widespread corruption and the 1998 Russian stock market crash. By the end of the 1990s, the economy was half what it had been at the start of the decade, producing less than Belgium and only 25 percent more than Poland. Meanwhile, power blackouts, wildcat strikes, and water shortages had become commonplace. Additionally, the ordinary citizen often grew worse off than before the fall of communism, while a powerful few came to own nearly everything. This cautionary tale ends with a more "workaday economy" emerging from the wreckage, and the author's hope that Russia's economic leaders can stay this new, more-balanced course. All signs to date, however, leave her decidedly pessimistic. --Howard Rothman
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $19.98
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eugene Lunn
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.41
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Publication Date: 1984-11-09
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Reading Level: 344
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Description: Explores the debate concerning realism and modernism in art and examines the efforts of four influential critics to develop Marxist theories of modern art.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $28.63
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Connelly
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 379.431
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Publication Date: 2000-11-20
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Reading Level: 456
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Description: This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, John Connelly offers a valuable case study showing how totalitarian states adapt their policies to the contours of the societies they rule. The Communist dictum that universities be purged of "bourgeois elements" was accomplished most fully in East Germany, where more and more students came from worker and peasant backgrounds. But the Polish Party kept potentially disloyal professors on the job in the futile hope that they would train a new intelligentsia, and Czech stalinists failed to make worker and peasant students a majority at Czech universities. Connelly accounts for these differences by exploring the prestalinist heritage of these countries, and particularly their experiences in World War II. The failure of Polish and Czech leaders to transform their universities became particularly evident during the crises of 1968 and 1989, when university students spearheaded reform movements. In East Germany, by contrast, universities remained true to the state to the end, and students were notably absent from the revolution of 1989.
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $12.99
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Manufacturer: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leon Trotsky
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Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1973-02
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Reading Level: 286
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Description: Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how Stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalized planned economy engendered by the October Revolution.
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