Search Results - "COMMUNISTS"

Comrades of color: East Germany in the Cold War World (Protest, culture and society) by Slobodian, Quinn

“…In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the…”
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Karl Marx by Paul Thomas, Thomas

“…He was relatively unknown in his lifetime, but Karl Marx's theories about society, economics, and politics changed the world, led to the Russian Revolution and…”
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Among women across worlds : North Korea in the global Cold War by Kim, Suzy

“…In Among Women across Worlds, Suzy Kim explores the transnational connections between North Korean women and the global women's movement. Asian women,…”
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SIMONE WEIL: "IF children are accustomed to not thinking of God, they will become fascists or Communists out of a need to give themselves to something." by Reno, R.R

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IN WEAVER'S SPIRIT, I am presently reading The Eastern Front, the wartime memoirs of Leon Degrelle, a romantic Belgian nationalist who volunteered to fight the Soviets as part of a Walloon detachment of the German Wehrmacht's Waffen SS by Reno, R.R

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Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica by Horne, Gerald

“…During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of…”
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ACLU by Andrews, Helen

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Eduardo Dias and João Louzada: two communists in a São Paulo working-class neighborhood, 1935-1955 by Adriano Luiz Duarte

“…The text focuses on the action of two communists, Eduardo Dias and João Louzada, in the neighborhood of Mooca, in São Paulo city, between 1935 and 1955. It…”
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Iranian communists and the Palestine question (1947-1956) by Azizi, Arash

“…The decision of the United Nations in 1947 to partition Palestine into two Arab and Jewish states was a landmark moment in the postwar history of the Middle…”
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Slovak National Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia by Benko, Juraj, Hudek, Adam

“…Slovak national communism as a specific approach to the problem of Czech-Slovak relations gained a significant position within the Communist Party of…”
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IN MID-JANUARY, I met a friend at the rock climbing gym. She's Chinese-American, born to parents who fled the Mao-led communists in the 1950s

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A Modern Perspective on the History of Moldovan Statehood a Century Ago by Stepanov, Vyacheslav P.

“…The review highlights the monographic study by Galushchenko, O. S. (2024). One hundred years of the Moldavian ASSR. Moldavian statehood east of the Dniester…”
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The first Naxal : an authorised biography of Kanu Sanyal by Paul, Bappaditya

“…It seldom happens that the story of an individual becomes so intertwined with the cause she or he stands for that it becomes impossible to separate the one…”
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The diary of Bernard Mark (December 1965 - February 1966) by Nalewajko-Kulikov, Joanna

“…Ber (Bernard) Mark (1908-1966) was born in Łomża, then Congress Poland. Before the Second World War, he joined the Communist Party of Poland (KPP). He spent…”
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Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy by Morgan, Jason

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Soviet and kosher : Jewish popular culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 by Shternshis, Anna

“…Kosher pork -- an oxymoron? Anna Shternshis's fascinating study traces the creation of a Soviet Jewish identity that disassociated Jewishness from Judaism. The…”
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Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History by Howard, Walter T.

“…On March 25, 1931, Alabama police detained nine young African AMerican men at a railroad stop not far from Scottsboro. In the process, they encountered two…”
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Kommunist omed ve-shar (A Communist Stands and Sings): On Israel's Ron Workers' Choir by Habib, Jasmin, Locker-Biletzki, Amir

“…At first glance Jewish Israeli Communists and SLI (Songs of the Land of Israel) make strange bedfellows. Communist Party members would seem to be the last to…”
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The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book: Essays on Exile by Beltran, Michael

“…In late 2019, journalist Michael Beltran found himself in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, deep in conversation with Filipino revolutionary leaders Jose…”
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LOS COMUNISTAS BOLIVIANOS Y LA KOMINTERN: UNA HISTORIA DE DESENCUENTROS by Schelchkov, Andrey, Stefanoni, Pablo

“…The formation of the first communist party in Bolivia, in the 1930s, went against the grain of the intentions of the Communist International, represented by…”
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