9 books in Political Science - Communism & Socialism
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Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >
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Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
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Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >
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Feather in the Storm
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“It is my hope that this memoir may serve as a reminder and a memorial to all of the children who were lost in the Chaos,” Emily Wu writes at the beginning of Feather in the Storm.
Told from a child’s and young girl’s point of view, Wu’s spellbinding account–which spans... Read more >
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“It is my hope that this memoir may serve as a reminder and a memorial to all of the children who were lost in the Chaos,” Emily Wu writes at the beginning of Feather in the Storm.
Told from a child’s and young girl’s point of view, Wu’s spellbinding account–which spans... Read more >
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The Long March
The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Written by Sun Shuyun
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $16.00
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.
In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and... Read more >
The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Written by Sun Shuyun
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $16.00
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.
In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and... Read more >
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eBook.
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Feather in the Storm
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to... Read more >
A Childhood Lost in Chaos
Written by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $14.95
Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Communist Manifesto
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction by Vladimir Pozner
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $5.95
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear... Read more >
Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Introduction by Vladimir Pozner
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $5.95
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear... Read more >
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Communism
A History
Written by Richard Pipes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $13.95
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 of human... Read more >
A History
Written by Richard Pipes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2003
Price: $13.95
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 of human... Read more >
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eBook.
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Marx for Beginners
Written by Rius
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $12.00
A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a... Read more >
Written by Rius
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $12.00
A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He's put it all in: the origins of Marxist philosophy, history, economics; of capital, labor, the class struggle, socialism. And there's a... Read more >
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