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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $18.94
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Manufacturer: The Guilford Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: The Guilford Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7
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Publication Date: 1996-09-01
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Reading Level: 310
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Description: When the ecological movement emerged in the 1960s, it warned that continued consumerism and growth would lead to ecological catastrophe. This "green" philosophy represented a challenge to the basic tenets of Marxism, which traditionally ignored issues of ecological sustainability. Tracing the history of the integration of ecological understanding with Marxist philosophy, The Greening of Marxism explores the influence of green politics on Marxism, examines the new politics emerging from these movements, and shows how red\n-\green alliances can transform the political landscape.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $30.00
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Manufacturer: Univ of Georgia Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Elizabeth Wheaton
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Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.662
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Publication Date: 1987-10
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: This outstanding book chronicles the events leading up to the shootout that occurred when a group of Klansmen and Nazis were confronted by the Communist Workers Party, leaving 5 dead and 9 wounded.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $15.95
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alexander Rabinowitch
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Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 947.0841
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Publication Date: 1991-08-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Alexander Rabinowitch's pioneering study of revolutionary events in Petrograd in the summer of 1917 challenges and revises the established view of the Bolshevik Party in 1917 as a disciplined, monolithic organization subservient to V.I. Lenin. Rabinowitch demonstrates that the abortive July uprising was organized by militant factions within the party against the wishes of Lenin. He concludes that the divided nature of the Bolshevik Party in 1917, in part the result of a rapid growth in grass-roots party membership, had crucial implications for the outcome of the revolution in October.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $23.00
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Manufacturer: Open Court
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Ramsay Steele
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Publisher: Open Court
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.9
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Publication Date: 1999-01-27
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Reading Level: 440
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Description: In 1920, Ludwig von Mises proclaimed that all attempts to establish socialism would come to grief, for reasons of informational efficiency. At first, socialists and economists took Mises's argument seriously, but by the end of the Second World War, a consensus prevailed that Mises had been discredited. More recently, that consensus has been rapidly reversed: it is now widely agreed that 'Mises was right'. Yet the momentous implications of the Mises argument - for economics, politics, culture, and philosophy - remain largely unexplored. From Marx to Mises is a clear, penetrating exposition of the economic calculation debate, and a scrutiny of some of the broader issues it raises.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $19.00
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul Hollander
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306
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Publication Date: 2002-01-21
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Reading Level: 430
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Description: What ails people at the present time in Western and especially American society is an inexhaustible subject. Discussion of these discontents in the United States in the last decade of the twentieth century leads to an obvious question: How much and what kind of discontents are possible in a society that has experienced over a decade of economic growth, close to full employment, hardly any inflation, falling crime rates, declining teenage pregnancies, and other good things? Is there anything to worry about in a country that has become the undisputed superpower of the world and no longer faces another hostile superpower such as the Soviet Union used to be? Paul Hollander wrestles with these and other questions in seeking to understand conditions and developments within American culture and society in the context of their relationship to political systems, movements and ideas critical of the United States and Western values. Hollander examines disparate phenomena, such as the O.J. Simpson case, the banning of West Side Story in Amherst, Massachusetts, the popularity and expose of Rigoberta Menchu, and the appeal of sports utility vehicles, which shed light on the major themes of the volume. Topics include conflicts among American intellectuals (including disputes over the Kosovo intervention), the impact of postmodernism on higher education. the persisting appeal of victimhood in American society, the flaws of American sociology, academic specialists' failure to anticipate the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the new anti-Americanism in postcommunist societies. Among topics of historical interest are a survey of Western judgments and misjudgments of the communist systems: examination of the relative neglect of political violence in communist states. and analysis of officially enforced. secular-religious cult of communist rulers. Many of these writings are linked to the author's longstanding interest in why people accept or reject particular political systems and in the contradictory human needs and desires which condition and limit the pursuit of social and political ends. Sociologists, political scientists, and the general reader will find this book of great interest.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $2.45
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Kathryn S. Olmsted
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.1247073092
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Publication Date: 2002-10-07
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: When Elizabeth Bentley slunk into an FBI field office in 1945, she was thinking only of saving herself from NKGB assassins who were hot on her trail. She had no idea that she was about to start the greatest Red Scare in U.S. history. Bentley (1908-1963) was a Connecticut Yankee and Vassar graduate who spied for the Soviet Union for seven years. She met with dozens of highly placed American agents who worked for the Soviets, gathering their secrets and stuffing sensitive documents into her knitting bag. But her Soviet spymasters suspected her of disloyalty--and even began plotting to silence her forever. To save her own life, Bentley decided to betray her friends and comrades to the FBI. Her defection effectively shut down Soviet espionage in the United States for years. Despite her crucial role in the cultural and political history of the early Cold War, Bentley has long been overlooked or underestimated by historians. Now, new documents from Russian and American archives make it possible to assess the veracity of her allegations. This long overdue biography rescues Elizabeth Bentley from obscurity and tells her dramatic life story.
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Price: $20.95
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Sale: $20.95
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Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dante L. Germino
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Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.245075092
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Publication Date: 1990-09-01
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Reading Level: 296
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Description: Dante Germino's biography of the Italian communist and political theorist Antonio Gramsci offers a major reassessment of this important twentieth-century thinker. Geromino analyzes Gramsci's remarkable life as well as his extensive oeuvre, from the early Turin articles to the meditative Prison Notebooks. Gramsci saw society as composed of a small but powerful political center and a large body of emarginati -- marginalized people at the periphery of society, who are denied access to traditional positions of power. That vision led Gramsci to concentrate on the significance of the "common man" as he developed his theory Of the political organization of society, The persistent theme in Gramsci's work is how the ordinary man thinks, feels, and endures, and how the course of political institutions is shaped by the efforts of the marginalized to erode the boundaries of the center. Gramsci's approach is perhaps best expressed as a reunion of philosophy and experience and revaluation of the quotidian. Gramsci's new politics of inclusion anticipated by well over a half-century the recent epoch-making developments in the USSR and in Eastern Europe. His anti-authoritarian leadership style as secretary of the Italian Communist party in the 1920s prefigured Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost. Gramsci's insistence on the international Communist movement's openness to new social formations at the grass roots is supremely relevant to developments in Romania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland, where forces hitherto kept at the margins of political life by ossified Communist-party structures have burst on the scene with unprecedented vitality. Germino's compelling study ofGramsci's personal life and intellectual development offers fresh insights into Gramsci's work that will be of interest to all students of cultural and political theory, of particular interest is bas extensive consideration of the preprison writings both in their own right and for the light
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $8.63
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Susan Weissman::Suzi Weissman
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 929.20973
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Publication Date: 2001-10
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Victor Serge was, according to his friend Julian Gorkin, an 'eternal vagabond in search of the ideal.' A compelling figure and a hugely accomplished writer, his is the story of a 'course set on hope,' a pursuit of truth, dignity and human justice set against some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. A Belgian-born Russian, Serge was twenty-eight when he first set foot in his homeland in 1919. Within months he had joined the Bolsheviks, and went on to participate in the first three Congresses of the Comintern before fighting in the siege of Petrograd. Because of his alliance with the Left Opposition, Serge was subjected to frequent arrests and narrowly escaped death during his eventual deportation from the Soviet Union in 1936. He remained in Paris until the Wehrmacht arrived in 1940, when he fled with his family to Marseilles. Desperate for an exit visa, he was finally admitted to Mexico, where he died in poverty in 1947. Throughout his life Victor Serge wrote prolifically and tellingly of his times: novels and short stories as well as biographies of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, and an enormous archive of unpublished work including correspondence, polemics and essays. Susan Weissman's biography is the first to give due weight to the extraordinary commitment and optimism of this great political writer.
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Price: $36.00
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Sale: $30.99
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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: 947.084
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Publication Date: 1980-06
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Reading Level: 1340
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Description: Published for the ninetieth anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, this edition of Leon Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events that transformed the history of Russia-and the world-forever. Leon Trotsky was a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and is author of My Life and The Revolution Betrayed. Ahmed Shawki is editor of International Socialist Review and author of Black Liberation and Socialism.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $2.80
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Neil Larsen
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 863.609358
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Publication Date: 2001-09-06
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Determinations employs a Marxist approach to examine postcolonial theory and provides critical readings of a range of postcolonial narratives, mainly Latin American. It argues that the national question remains an unresolved problem in this field, particularly in light of the confusions engendered by concepts of globalization, and that the cultural link between the ideas of nation and narrative remains a fruitful avenue of study. Taking issue with the approaches of theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak, Larsen takes the reader through the work of writers such as Cortázar, Carpentier, García Márquez, Rulfo and Vargas Llosa. He concludes with a pungent reassessment of Benedict Anderson's classic work, Imagined Communities.
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