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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $7.83
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kate A. Baldwin
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9324708996073
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Publication Date: 2002-10
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors—and on twentieth-century American debates about race—Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation of a black transnationalism.
Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, and Paul Robeson each lived or traveled extensively in the Soviet Union between the 1920s and the 1960s, and each reflected on Communism and Soviet life in works that have been largely unavailable, overlooked, or understudied. Kate A. Baldwin takes up these writings, as well as considerable material from Soviet sources—including articles in Pravda and Ogonek, political cartoons, Russian translations of unpublished manuscripts now lost, and mistranslations of major texts—to consider how these writers influenced and were influenced by both Soviet and American culture. Her work demonstrates how the construction of a new Soviet citizen attracted African Americans to the Soviet Union, where they could explore a national identity putatively free of class, gender, and racial biases. While Hughes and McKay later renounced their affiliations with the Soviet Union, Baldwin shows how, in different ways, both Hughes and McKay, as well as Du Bois and Robeson, used their encounters with the U. S. S. R. and Soviet models to rethink the exclusionary practices of citizenship and national belonging in the United States, and to move toward an internationalism that was a dynamic mix of antiracism, anticolonialism, social democracy, and international socialism.
Recovering what Baldwin terms the "Soviet archive of Black America," this book forces a rereading of some of the most important African American writers and of the transnational circuits of black modernism.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jacques Derrida
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4
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Publication Date: 1994-09-12
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Specters of Marx is a major new book from the renowned French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It represents his first important statement on Marx and his definitive entry into social and political philosophy.
"Specter" is the first noun one reads in The Manifesto of the Communist Party. But that's just the beginning. Once you start to notice them, there is no counting all the ghosts, spirits, specters and spooks that crowd Marx's text. If they are to count for something, however, one must question the spectropoetics that Marx allowed to invade his discourse. In Specters of Marx, Derrida undertakes this task within the context of a critique of the new dogmatism and "new world order" that have proclaimed the death of Marxism and of Marx.
Noting its resemblance to the manic discourse that prevails in what Freud called the triumphant stage of mourning work, Derrida likens this jubilant and obscene display ("the body is rotting in a safe place;long live capitalism") to an exorcism and a conjuration. This disavowal attempts to neutralize a spectral necessity, but also the future of a "spirit" of Marxism. Derrida argues that there is more than one spirit of Marx and it is the finite responsibility of his heirs (and we are all heirs of Marx) to sift through the possible legacies, the possible spirits, reaffirming one and not the other.
How, Derrida asks, does this critical discernment relate to the deconstructive demand of responsiblity? This question leads the book across the geopolitical and technoscientific space in which the deafening disavowal of Marx is being proclaimed today. He articulates a stunning reading of Marx's "spectrography" not only with the chain of a deconstructive discourse but also with the themes of inheritance and messianism.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.82
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Manufacturer: AK Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jan Valtin
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Publisher: AK Press
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Edition: 1st Nabat Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.12092
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Publication Date: 2004-05-01
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Reading Level: 720
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Description: A bestseller in 1941, selected by the Book of the Month Club for a special edition and described by Book of the Month Club News as: ". . . full of sensational revelations and interspersed with episodes of daring, of desperate conflict, of torture, and of ruthless conspiracy . . . It is, first of all, an autobiography the like of which has seldom been." The son of a seafaring father, Richard Julius Herman Krebs, a.k.a. Jan Valtin, came of age as a bicycle messenger during a maritime rebellion. His life as an intimate insider account of the dramatic events of 1920's and 1930s, where he rose both within the ranks of the Communist Party and on the Gestapo hit list. Known for his honesty and incredible memory, Krebs dedicated his life to the Communist Party, rising to a position as head of maritime, organizing worldwide for the Comintern, only to flee the Party and Europe to evade his own comrade's attempts to kill him. As a professional revolutionary, agitator, spy and would-be assassin, Krebs traveled the globe from Germany to China, India to Sierra Leon, Moscow to the United States where a botched assassination attempt landed him a stint in San Quentin. From his spellbinding account of artful deception to gain release from a Nazi prison and his work as a double-agent within the Gestapo, to his vivid depiction of a Communist Party fraught with intrigue and subterfuge, Krebs gives an unflinching portrayal of the internal machinations of both parties. Writing at age 36 under the name Jan Valtin, Krebs lays bare a young life filled with idealism and devotion-disillusionment and loss-in a world full of revolutionary promise gone immeasurably wrong. "An exciting, real book without a trace of unnecessary melodrama."-H.G.Wells
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $15.56
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Manufacturer: Ocean Press (AU)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ernesto Guevara::David Deutschmann
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Publisher: Ocean Press (AU)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 972.91063
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Publication Date: 1997-10
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: A new, revised and expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic. This reader is the bestselling, most comprehensive selection of Che Guevara's writings, letters and speeches available in English. This volume covers Che's writings on the Cuban revolutionary war, the first years of the revolution in Cuba and his vision for Latin America and the Third World. It includes such classic essays as "Socialism and Man in Cuba" and his call to create "Two, Three, Many Vietnams." Among the features of this expanded edition are several unpublished articles, essays and letters, including a letter from Che to his children shortly before his death in Bolivia in 1967 and an essay, "Strategy and tactics for the Latin American revolution." This new edition of a popular Ocean title is published in collaboration with the Che Guevara Archive in Havana. It includes:
a new 24-page selection of photos (many previously unpublished)
an expanded and revised chronology
complete bibliography of the works of Che Guevara
new, extensive annotation and index "Deep inside the T-shirt where we have tried to trap him the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with im-patience." -- Ariel Dorfman Two new movies to be released in Fall 2003 confirm Che's enduring status as an "icon of the century."
Ocean Press is preparing a range of merchandise, including T-shirts, bookmarks and posters to promote our books on Che Guevara. This new, expanded edition of an Ocean Press classic complements several bestselling biographies of Che Guevara.
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Price: $51.50
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Sale: $41.20
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Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Antonio Gramsci
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.43092
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Publication Date: 1991-04-15
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Reading Level: 608
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Description: -- Times Literary Supplement
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $47.02
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2498075
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Publication Date: 2003-10-15
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Reading Level: 395
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Description: Stalinism for All Seasons is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). It traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. Vladimir Tismaneanu uses documents that he discovered while working in the RCP archives in Bucharest in the mid-1990s and interviews with many of the party members from the Ceau_escu and Gheorghiu-Dej eras to tell the absorbing story of how RCP members came to power as exponents of Moscow and succeeded in turning themselves into champions of autonomy. Tismaneanu analyzes both the main events in Romanian communism and the role of significant personalities in the party's history. Situating the rise and fall of Romanian communism within the world revolutionary movement, Stalinism for All Seasons shows that the history of communism in one country can illuminate the development of communism in the twentieth century.
Tismaneanu discusses significant moments in the final six decades of world communism, including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Comintern, Stalin and the Bolshevization of the Eastern European communist parties, and de-Stalinization. He examines important events in international affairs during Nicolae Ceau_escu's rule (1965-1989)--particularly Romania's role in the Sino-Soviet conflict, the Middle East, European communism, and European security. Finally, Tismaneanu identifies the RCP's descendants among Romania's current political parties and personalities. Embracing a long and complex period, this book will interest readers of twentieth-century history and anyone curious about communism and postcommunism.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $24.99
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Manufacturer: Monthly Review Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hal Draper
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Publisher: Monthly Review Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 322
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Publication Date: 1989-12-01
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Reading Level: 373
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Price: $37.50
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Sale: $29.20
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gerald Allen Cohen::G. A. Cohen
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Edition: Expanded
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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Reading Level: 430
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Description: First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $12.50
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hyunh Kim Khanh
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4309597
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Publication Date: 1986-09
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Reading Level: 384
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Price: $129.95
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Sale: $129.95
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Manufacturer: Chivers Audio Books
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Number of Items: 18
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Binding: Audio CD
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Author: Jung Chang
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Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
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Edition: Unabridged
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335
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Publication Date: 2000-05
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Description: In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents.
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