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  • It is Right to Rebel

    by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Pierre Victor ...
    The early 1970s were a crucial period in the political and intellectual climate of France. The newspaper Libération was founded in the wake of the protest movements of 1968, and the country was gripped by industrial, political and civil unrest on a huge scale. Behind all this were deep debates about the nature and justification of revolt, class conflict and consciousness, and the nature of what it ... Read more

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  • Fascism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kevin Passmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Propaganda

    The Formation of Men's Attitudes

    by Jacques Ellul ...
    This seminal study and critique of propaganda from one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1962. Taking not only a psychological approach, but a sociological approach as well, Ellul’s book outlines the taxonomy for propaganda, and ultimately, it’s destructive nature towards democracy. Drawing from his own experiences ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • May Man Prevail?

    An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy

    by Erich Fromm ...
    New York Times –Bestselling Author: A study of the turmoil and uncertainty in the early 1960s when the threat of nuclear holocaust loomed around the world.The early 1960s were a time of existential unease across the world. The constant threat of a nuclear bomb—and of mutually assured destruction—led to a palpable sense that nuclear holocaust could occur any day. It was in this Cold War environment ... Read more

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  • Fascism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Kevin Passmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? This book argues that it is both: fascism unleashes violence against the left and ethnic minorities, but also condemns the bourgeoisie for its 'softness'. Kevin Passmore opens his book with a series of 'scenes from fascist life' - a secret meeting of the Romanian Iron Guard; Mussolini meeting the king of Italy; a rally of Hungarian ... Read more

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  • Lies, Passions & Illusions

    The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

    by François Furet ...
    Translated by Deborah Furet ...
    A critical history of 20th century political movement by the Hannah Arendt Prize-winning author of Interpreting the French Revolution.Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, François Furet was hailed as "one of the most influential men in contemporary France" by the New York Review of Books. In Lies, Passions, and Illusions, Furet's presents a cohesive, late ... Read more

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  • The Burden of Responsibility

    Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century

    by Tony Judt ...
    A historian explores how three noted French intellectuals maintained their moral principles despite the difficult political pressures of their era.Through the prism of the lives three outstanding twentieth century French intellectuals—Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron—history professor Tony Judt examines pivotal issues in the history of contemporary French society—antisemitism and the ... Read more

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  • Conversations with Gorbachev

    On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism

    by Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar ...
    Translated by George Shriver ...
    Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics.In 1993 they decided that ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia

    Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power

    by Andrew Sloin ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    A Dorothy Rosenberg Prize–winner: "A remarkable social history that investigates the process of Sovietization among Jews in Belorussia" (Jeffrey Veidlinger, author of In the Shadow of the Shtetl).This insightful history demonstrates how Jewish life in Belorussia fundamentally changed when Jews started joining the Bolshevik movement and populating the front lines of the revolutionary struggle. ... Read more

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  • The Future of Revolution

    Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising

    by Jasper Bernes ...
    How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for overcoming class society in the twenty-first century.When ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Nature of Fascism

    by Roger Griffin ...
    The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students.Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Unfinished Leninism

    The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    Praise for Paul Le Blanc's Lenin and the Revolutionary Party:"A work of unusual strength and coherence, inspired not by academic neutrality but by the deep conviction that there is much to learn from the actual ideas and experiences of Lenin." -Michael LöwyAs a leader of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin was perhaps the greatest revolutionary of the twentieth century. These clearly written ... Read more

    $12.99 USD