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Displaying records 81 through 90 of 2371 |
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Price: $27.99
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Sale: $15.77
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marc Morjé Howard
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 300.947
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Publication Date: 2003-04-21
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Reading Level: 220
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Description: Over a decade has passed since the collapse of communism, yet citizens of post-communist countries are still far less likely to join voluntary organizations than people from other countries and regions of the world. Why do post-communist citizens mistrust and avoid public organizations? What explains this distinctive pattern of weak civil society? And what does it mean for the future of democracy in post-communist Europe? In this engaging study, Marc Morjé Howard addresses these questions by developing a provocative argument about the powerful and enduring impact of the communist experience on its countries and citizens. Howard argues that the legacy of the communist experience of mandatory participation in state-controlled organizations, the development and persistence of vibrant private networks, and the tremendous disappointment with developments since the collapse of communism have left most post-communist citizens with a lasting aversion to public activities. In addition to analyzing data from over 30 democratic and democratizing countries in the World Values Survey, Howard presents extensive and original evidence from his own research in Eastern Germany and Russia, including in-depth interviews with ordinary citizens and an original representative survey.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $18.01
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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: 1978-11-01
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Reading Level: 748
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Description: This is the first of 5 volumes on Marx's theory of revolution.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Telos Press Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Publisher: Telos Press Ltd.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 650
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Publication Date: 1975-06-01
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Reading Level: 167
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Description: Are the concepts of labor and of production adaptable to a developing industrial society? What is the meaning of "pre-industrial organization"? In attempting to answer these questions, Jean Baudrillard examines the lessons of Marxism, which has created a productivist model and a fetishism of labor. He argues that we must break the mirror of production, which "reflects all of Western metaphysics," and free the Marxist logic from the restrictive context of political economy whence it was born.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $18.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francois Furet
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335
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Publication Date: 2000-12-01
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Reading Level: 600
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Description: Born in the 19th century as a theory, communism became a reality only in the 20th, when Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in the October Revolution of 1917. In The Passing of an Illusion, the late French historian François Furet argues that Lenin had little idea that the revolution he set in motion in Russia would so swiftly spread to other countries. The October Revolution did spread, Furet continues, because it gave citizens of the European and Asian powers caught up in World War I the idea that war was neither necessary nor inevitable. Russia's example proved that a country at war could simply declare that enough was enough and walk away. That action, Furet says, "endowed the idea of revolution not so much with a doctrine as with a universal sense of peace rediscovered." For nations bled dry by four years of war, the promise of peace was irresistible. That promise, announced by a red banner, troubled the ruling classes of nations across the globe for the next seven decades. This sweeping, utterly essential history traces the rise of state communism through such exemplars as Stalin and Mao Zedong, charts its degradation in the dictatorship not of the proletariat but of powerful individuals, and documents the last gasps of the doctrine in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Furet ends by remarking on a strange irony, a logical outcome of communism that Lenin and his contemporaries would have feared to foresee: with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, "class warfare, the dictatorship of the proletariat, Marxism-Leninism have given way to the very things they were supposed to replace--bourgeois proprietorship, the liberal democratic state, individual rights, free enterprise. All that remains of the regimes of October is what they sought to destroy." --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $32.90
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4
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Publication Date: 1989-04-06
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: This unique anthology brings together readings from the works of the most significant post-Leninist Marxist thinkers. The selections reflect the diversity and high intellectual accomplishment of twentieth-century Marxism and show how these theorists have transformed traditional Marxism's general philosophical orientation, interpretation of historical materialism, models of socialist political practice, and conception of human liberation. The writings reveal the evolution of a sophisticated and democratic Marxism with a theoretical emphasis on class consciousness and subjectivity, a resistance to all forms of domination--including sexism--and a belief in the political power of consciousness-raising.
The selections include the work of forerunners Karl Korsch, George Lukacs, and Antonio Gramsci; figures from the 1930s, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Wilhelm Reich; post-war and New Left thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Gorz, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas; and contemporary socialist-feminists Sheila Rowbotham, Juliet Mitchell, Barbara Ehrenreich, Heidi Hartmann, and Ann Ferguson. Gottlieb places the readings in historical and theoretical context, providing a clear and insightful account of the intellectual problems and historical events that gave rise to the Western Marxism, and describing how it both anticipated and influenced contemporary radical movements. Each selection is prefaced by a biographical sketch and the book concludes with a bibliography suggesting further research.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $42.99
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Barson::Steven Heller
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9
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Publication Date: 2001-04-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Not long ago, Communists seemed to be everywhere: among our politicians, neighbors, favorite actors--even in our drinking water. Red Scared! is a wry tour of the frosty decades of Soviet and American adversity, when anti-Communist hysteria produced fairly hysterical pop-culture items. The voluminous propaganda that the United States produced to combat the Red Menace--not only officially, but in books, films, magazines, games, and more--is explored and vibrantly reproduced here. With a colorful text that serves as a useful historical overview, daring tales from government agents, plot synopses and lurid covers of unintentionally funny pulp novels, and much more, Red Scared! brings the Cold War back home again--this time around with humor (and relief)
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Price: $60.95
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Sale: $60.95
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Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael Perelman
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
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Publication Date: 1987-07-13
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The history of capitalism has long been thought to be a sequence of recurring crises that appear in various forms: crises in employing people, crises in obtaining resources, and financial crises. Marx's Crises Theory: Scarcity, Labor, and Finance provides a framework for interpreting Marx's theory of crises. In conclusion, the author asserts that as long as the financial structure leads to periodic breakdowns, Marx's writings on the subject will retain their importance as a source of theory and analysis of the dynamics of political economy.
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $32.95
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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: Dorothy J. Solinger
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307.240951
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Publication Date: 1999-05-17
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Reading Level: 463
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Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion. "An outstanding work. Solinger's comprehensive treatment is likely to gain immediate attention from political scientists, sociologists, economics, and anthropologists working on China--as well as from students of migration and informal labor markets in other societies." --Elizabeth Perry, author of Shanghai on Strike "In this extraordinary book, Solinger documents that the coming of markets cannot easily convert outsiders into citizens. Years of fieldwork in several of China's cities have produced an enormously rich and detailed account." --Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and Its Discontents
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Price: $71.00
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Sale: $36.19
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Harvey Klehr::Kyrill M. Anderson::John Earl Haynes
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.2737509041
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Publication Date: 1998-02-17
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: In this follow-up to 1995's Secret World of American Communism, newly available documents from Russian archives firmly establish the deep relationship between the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and Moscow. The Soviet Union controlled CPUSA leadership and policy, including the crushing of dissent within the ranks. Among the revelations in this volume are confirmation that the criticisms which eventually led to the ouster of CPUSA head Earl Browder originated from within the Kremlin. The publication of these documents forces a harsh reevaluation of the notion that American Communists, as a whole, were simply idealistic patriots fighting for social justice.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $23.50
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William J Duiker
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 959.704
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Publication Date: 1996-05-02
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: In this new edition of his widely acclaimed study, William Duiker has revised and updated his analysis of the Communist movement in Vietnam from its formation in 1930 to the dilemmas facing its leadership in the post-Cold War era. Making use of newly available documentary sources and recent Western scholarship, the author reevaluates Communist revolutionary strategy during the Vietnam War. Based on primary materials in several languages, this respected work is essential for an understanding of Vietnam in the twentieth century.
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