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Revolution, Defeat and Theoretical Underdevelopment Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia   Loren Goldner http://www.brill.com/products/book/revolution-defeat-and-theoretical-underdevelopment   The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies— Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism— still with us, however different and diffuse in form. They are a contribution to the worldwide Marx renaissance of recent decades which has helped clear away the legacies

Spherical Book – goes beyond the traditional book form   Book goes interactive! Sergei Eisenstein’s historical idea of the Spherical Book is revived and applied to a conference anthology about early Russian dynamicists and art. There is no general book outline, but it is subjectively constructed in the perspective of each reader.     CULTURE

A Test of Powers WRITINGS ON CRITICISM AND LITERARY INSTITUTIONS FRANCO FORTINI Distributed for Seagull Books Translated by Alberto Toscano 304 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2016 The Italian List   Originally published in Italian in 1965, A Test of Powers was immediately seen as one of the central texts of Italian intellectual life. By the time

Otto Bauer (1881-1938) Thinker and Politician   Ewa Czerwińska-Schupp, Adam Mickiewicz University http://www.brill.com/products/book/otto-bauer-1881-1938 This work depicts Otto Bauer as the main politician of the SDAP and attempts a critical-analytical interpretation of his socio-political theories, which are shown against the background of the debates within the First and Second Internationals, political events within the SDAP, the

Two Years of Wandering A Menshevik Leader in Lenin’s Russia Author(s): Fedor Il’ich Dan Editor(s): Francis King Jun 2016 / ISBN: 9781910448724 / 226pp £15.00 This is a vivid picture of life in Soviet Russia during the civil war, through the eyes of Lenin’s longstanding political rival, the leading Menshevik Fedor Dan. It is the

The History of Italian Marxism From its Origins to the Great War   Paolo Favilli, Genoa University   http://www.brill.com/products/book/history-italian-marxism In The History of Italian Marxism, Paolo Favilli offers an articulated analysis of the different levels at which Marx’s ideas – and ‘Marxism’ as a doctrinal ‘system’ – were received in Italy from the time of

OUT NOW: REVOLUTIONARY YIDDISHLAND: A HISTORY OF JEWISH RADICALISM By Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg Translated by David Fernbach   “A rich and poignant and often enthralling record” – Noam Chomsky   https://www.versobooks.com/books/2277-revolutionary-yiddishland   —————   Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition.   Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and

The Types of Economic Policies under Capitalism Kôzô Uno (Translated by Thomas T. Sekine and edited by John R. Bell)   http://www.brill.com/products/book/types-economic-policies-under-capitalism Uno, who proposes to study capitalism at three distinct levels of abstraction, insists that there should be a mid-range theory of its developmental stages (dankaïron) between the pure theory of capital, which must

Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners The Struggle for the Charter in 1919   Martyn Ives http://www.brill.com/products/book/reform-revolution-and-direct-action-amongst-british-miners   In Reform, Revolution and Direct Action amongst British Miners, Martyn Ives offers a new perspective on one of the most volatile periods in labour history. His research into the astonishing coalfield militancy of 1919 reveals

Althusser and Theology Religion, Politics and Philosophy   Edited by Agon Hamza   http://www.brill.com/products/book/althusser-and-theology Religion has always been an object of philosophical analysis, as well as a platform for political practice. One cannot imagine a form of philosophical thinking without its relation to a religion, whether it negates or affirms the latter. In different philosophical

Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia   Darko Suvin, McGill University. With a Foreword by Fredric Jameson   http://www.brill.com/products/book/splendour-misery-and-possibilities     Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia

The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin!’ – ‘All Workers Must Think for Themselves!’   Philippe Bourrinet, Université Paris-Sorbonne http://www.brill.com/products/book/dutch-and-german-communist-left-1900-68   The Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism,