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Author |
: Stéphane Courtois |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 920 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674076087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674076082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Book of Communism by : Stéphane Courtois
This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
Author |
: Aaron Bastani |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2019-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786632647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786632640 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fully Automated Luxury Communism by : Aaron Bastani
The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream remains the same. Against the confines of this increasingly limited politics, a new paradigm has emerged. Fully Automated Luxury Communism claims that new technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism and scarcity. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness. For everyone. In his first book, radical political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable hope, highlighting how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of nine billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology and build meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society heralds the beginning of history. Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone.
Author |
: Andrew Demshuk |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2020-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501751677 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501751670 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bowling for Communism by : Andrew Demshuk
Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by exploring acts of "urban ingenuity" amid catastrophic urban decay. Andrew Demshuk profiles the creative activism of local communist officials who, with the help of scores of volunteers, constructed a palatial bowling alley without Berlin's knowledge or approval. In a city mired in disrepair, civic pride overcame resentment against a regime loathed for corruption, Stasi spies, and the Berlin Wall. Reconstructing such episodes through interviews and obscure archival materials, Demshuk shows how the public sphere functioned in Leipzig before the fall of communism. Hardly detached or inept, local officials worked around centralized failings to build a more humane city. And hardly disengaged, residents turned to black-market construction to patch up their surroundings. Because such "urban ingenuity" was premised on weakness in the centralized regime, the dystopian cityscape evolved from being merely a quotidian grievance to the backdrop for revolution. If, by their actions, officials were demonstrating that the regime was irrelevant, and if, in their own experiences, locals only attained basic repairs outside official channels, why should anyone have mourned the system when it was overthrown?
Author |
: Bini Adamczak |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 108 |
Release |
: 2017-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262339490 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262339498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Communism for Kids by : Bini Adamczak
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 that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a children's story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening. It all unfolds like a story, with jealous princesses, fancy swords, displaced peasants, mean bosses, and tired workers–not to mention a Ouija board, a talking chair, and a big pot called “the state.” Before they know it, readers are learning about the economic history of feudalism, class struggles in capitalism, different ideas of communism, and more. Finally, competition between two factories leads to a crisis that the workers attempt to solve in six different ways (most of them borrowed from historic models of communist or socialist change). Each attempt fails, since true communism is not so easy after all. But it's also not that hard. At last, the people take everything into their own hands and decide for themselves how to continue. Happy ending? Only the future will tell. With an epilogue that goes deeper into the theoretical issues behind the story, this book is perfect for all ages and all who desire a better world.
Author |
: Emile Bertrand Ader |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105034928825 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Communism by : Emile Bertrand Ader
Author |
: Stephen M. Norris |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 443 |
Release |
: 2020-11-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253050311 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253050316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Museums of Communism by : Stephen M. Norris
How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range of fields explore various museums and include nearly 90 photographs, a common denominator emerges: rather than focusing on artifacts and historical documents, these museums often privilege memories and stories. In doing so, the museums shift attention from experiences of guilt or collaboration to narratives of shared victimization under communist rule. As editor Stephen M. Norris demonstrates, these museums are often problematic at best and revisionist at worst. From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic museums of everyday life in Russia, the sites considered offer new ways of understanding the challenges of separating memory and myth.
Author |
: Katarzyna Chmielewska |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2021-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789633863794 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9633863791 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reassessing Communism by : Katarzyna Chmielewska
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 issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project doomed to failure. While wholly exempt from nostalgia, these essays show that beyond oppression and bad governance, communism was also a regime in which people pursued a variety of goals and sincerely attempted to build a better world for themselves. The book is interdisciplinary and applies the tools of social history, intellectual history, political philosophy, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies to provide a nuanced view of the communist regimes in east-central Europe.
Author |
: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2016-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784783969 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178478396X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of Communism 3 by : Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
An all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principles In 2009 Slavoj Žižek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The discussion has continued across the world and this book gathers responses from the conference in Seoul. It includes the interventions of regular contributors Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, as well as work from across Asia, notably from Chinese scholar Wang Hui, offering regional perspectives on communism in an era of global economic crisis and political upheaval.
Author |
: Tibor Valuch |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 508 |
Release |
: 2022-01-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789633863770 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9633863775 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Life under Communism and After by : Tibor Valuch
By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.
Author |
: Vivian Gornick |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2020-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788735513 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178873551X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Romance of American Communism by : Vivian Gornick
“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human project. Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, The Romance of American Communism is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin’s crimes became public. From the immigrant Jewish enclaves of the Bronx and Brooklyn and the docks of Puget Sound to the mining towns of Kentucky and the suburbs of Cleveland, over a million Americans found a sense of belonging and an expanded sense of self through collective struggle. They also found social isolation, blacklisting, imprisonment, and shattered hopes. This is their story--an indisputably American story.