The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism
By: Derek Sayer
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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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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3. 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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4. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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5. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
6. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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7. Hegel Contra Sociology
By: Gillian Rose
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century's most important social philosophers. In perhaps her mo… read more
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8. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
By: Frank Dikötter
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more
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9. The Discourses
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … read more
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11. Stalin
By: Robert Service
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably… read more
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12. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more
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13. The Agricola and The Germania
By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly
3.94
Format: 229 pages,
The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more
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14. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
By: Vladimir Lenin
3.99
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Translated from the text given in the "Collected Works" of V.I. Lenin, Vol. 7, Fourth Russian Editi… read more
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15. For Mao: Essays in Historical Materialism
By: Philip Corrigan
4.13
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
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16. Stalin: Waiting for ... the Truth
By: Grover Furr
3.61
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In October 2017 Stephen Kotkin, professor of history at Princeton University, published Stalin. Wai… read more
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17. The Moscow Trials As Evidence
By: Grover Furr
3.46
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
The Moscow Trials of August, 1936, January, 1937, and March, 1938, are generally regarded as frame-… read more
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18. Toward Soviet America
By: William Z. Foster
3.59
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, inc Publication date: 1932Subjects: Capitalism — United StatesS… read more
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19. The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism
By: Derek Sayer
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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20. The Future of Maoism
By: Samir Amin
3.18
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
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