9 best-selling russia books like The Materialist Conception of History by Georgi Plekhanov

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The Materialist Conception of History

By: Georgi Plekhanov

3.59

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Socialist essay.

"We know today that there is no such thing as absolute truth, that everything is relative, that everything is dependent on the conditions of time and place; but precisely for that reason, we should be very cautious in judging the “ignorance"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

"We know today that there is no such thing as absolute truth, that everything is relative, that everything is dependent on the conditions of time and place; but precisely for that reason, we should be very cautious in judging the “ignorance"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

"Passing to historical nations, we must first point out that in relation to them the word race cannot and should not be used at all. We do not know of any historical nation that can be regarded as racially pure; each of them is the product of an extremely lengthy and intense process of interbreeding and intermingling of different ethnic elements. Now try, after this, to determine the influence of “race"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

"Passing to historical nations, we must first point out that in relation to them the word race cannot and should not be used at all. We do not know of any historical nation that can be regarded as racially pure; each of them is the product of an extremely lengthy and intense process of interbreeding and intermingling of different ethnic elements. Now try, after this, to determine the influence of “race"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

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1. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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2. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

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3. Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

By: Karl Marx , Annette Jolin , Joseph O'Malley

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Studies in the History & Theory of Politics) This book is a complete translation of Marx's critica… read more

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4. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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5. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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6. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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7. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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8. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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9. The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

By: Anton Chekhov , Ronald Wilks , None

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

This collection contains the following thirteen stories: The House with the Mezzanine Peasants Man … read more

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10. Wage-Labour and Capital/Value, Price and Profit

By: Karl Marx

3.97

Format: None pages,

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11. The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Gary Saul Morson

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young t… read more

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"Quien teme al lobo no se mete en el bosque."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"يجب ان يظل المال دون الأستقراطي، حتى لكأن الأستقراطي لا يكاد يحفل به أو يقلق له"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"En toda situación es posible comportarse con dignidad. Si hay lucha, que sea noble y no humillante."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

12. The Teachings of Karl Marx

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.86

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

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13. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

By: György Lukács , Rodney Livingstone

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published i… read more

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14. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

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15. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

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16. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

17. Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more

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18. On Practice

By: Mao Zedong

4.42

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy. read more

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19. Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory

By: Moishe Postone

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature c… read more

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20. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.12

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Several of Lenin's basic theoretical essays on the national question are brought together in this v… read more

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21. The Materialist Conception of History

By: Georgi Plekhanov

3.59

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Socialist essay. read more

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"We know today that there is no such thing as absolute truth, that everything is relative, that everything is dependent on the conditions of time and place; but precisely for that reason, we should be…"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

"Passing to historical nations, we must first point out that in relation to them the word race cannot and should not be used at all. We do not know of any historical nation that can be regarded as rac…"

-Georgi Plekhanov, The Materialist Conception of History

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Vladimir Lenin

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