This book is a comparative framework for interpreting the relationship between late Stalinism and the communist takeovers in former Eastern Europe. A bonus for the volume is that it also provides detailed, sectorial analyses for the Romanian case, something that the field partic…
"In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Lo…
This book examines the communist movement in the Arab world from the time of the Russian revolution until after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Le premier volet de l'histoire mondiale du communisme s'attache à l'aventure politique qui a porté des millions d'hommes et de femmes aux plus folles espérances. Comment expliquer ce succès, pourquoi le communisme a-t-il triomphé dans certaines régions, pourquoi a-t-il partout é…
Le second volet de cette histoire mondiale du communisme est consacré à la part de tragédie humaine que ce système a engendrée. La guerre civile permanente que les régimes communistes ont menée contre leur population explique l'hécatombe sans précédent qui en a résulté. ©Electre…
Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of dissent today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che.
This book provides an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of the major social and political processes affecting Hungarians in Romania after the overthrow of the Communist regime in 1989. The volume highlights the interdependence between the ethno-political strategies of minority…