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Author : G. Peter Albert
Release Date : 05 July 1999
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Genre : History
Pages : 858
ISBN 13 : 0674076087

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Book excerpt: Collects and analyzes seventy years of communist crimes that offer details on Kim Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho," and Cuba under Castro.

The Black Book of Communism

Author : G. Peter Albert,Stéphane Courtois,Nicolas Werth,Andrzej Paczkowski,Jean-Louis Panne,Karel Bartosek,Jean-Louis Margolin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Genre : History
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Collects and analyzes seventy years of communist crimes that offer details on Kim Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho," and Cuba under Castro....

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : History
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"The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for ...

The Rise and Fall of Communism

Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Genre : Political Science
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Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — a definitive and ground-breaking account of the revolutionary ideology that changed the modern world. The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in ...

Left of Karl Marx

Author : Carole Boyce Davies
Publisher : Duke University Press
Genre : Social Science
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In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones ...

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Publisher : China Books
Genre : History
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Author : Jeff R Woods
Publisher : LSU Press
Genre : History
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At the height of the cold war, southern segregationists exploited the reigning mood of anxiety by linking the civil rights movement to an international Communist conspiracy. Jeff Woods tells a gripping story of fervent crusaders for racial equality swept into the maelstrom of the South's siege mentality, of crafty political ...

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Author : Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Genre : History
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A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was ...

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Author : Chapo Trap House,Felix Biederman,Matt Christman,Brendan James,Will Menaker,Virgil Texas
Publisher : Atria Books
Genre : Humor
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Instant New York Times bestseller “Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the lanyard-wearing Wall Street centrism of the left and ...

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Author : Bini Adamczak
Publisher : MIT Press
Genre : Political Science
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Communism, capitalism, work, crisis, and the market, described in simple storybook terms and illustrated by drawings of adorable little revolutionaries. Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one ...

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Publisher : Central European University Press
Genre : Political Science
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The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept, and also examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the ...

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Author : Harry Haywood,Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Richard Pipes
Publisher : Modern Library
Genre : History
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With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime’s scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization ...

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Author : David Horowitz
Publisher : Encounter Books
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders. When the wreckage he and his comrades had created became clear to him in ...

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Author : François Furet
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Genre : Political Science
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François Furet was acknowledged as the twentieth century's preeminent historian of the French Revolution. But years before his death, he turned his attention to the consequences and aftermath of another critical revolution—the Communist revolution. The result, Le passé d'une illusion, is a penetrating history of the ideological passions ...

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Author : Paul Kengor
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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A chilling account of an evil ideology and the man whose nefarious thoughts made it possible....