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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Party The Party Richard McGregor An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States. OL15424992W
Время сэконд хэнд Время сэконд хэнд Светлана Алексиевич "From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the … OL16813790W
The Longoria affair The Longoria affair John J. Valadez A documentary on the Mexican-American civil rights movement. The film tells the story of one key injustice, the refusal, by a small-town funeral home in Texas after World War II, to care for a dead s… OL16938408W
Catch You Later, Traitor Catch You Later, Traitor Avi "It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, ac… OL19997615W
Perestrojka Perestrojka Michail Gorbačev Uitleg van de hervormingspolitiek van het Russische staatshoofd (geb. 1931). OL24183692W
Le chemin de la vérité Le chemin de la vérité Lech Wałęsa Que de chemin parcouru depuis ce jour d'août 1980 où, à Gdansk, un électricien des chantiers navals Lénine signait des accords instituant le droit de grève et reconnaissant la légitimité du syndicat … OL24204247W
Deux innocents en Chine rouge Deux innocents en Chine rouge Jacques Hébert "En 1960, fascinés par la Chine, Pierre Elliott Trudeau et Jacques Hébert visitent ses usines, ses hôpitaux et ses musées avant de publier Deux innocents en Chine rouge. En 2006, alors que la Chine c… OL24260427W
Land, land!... Land, land!... Sándor Márai Herinneringen aan 1944-1948, de laatste vier jaar die de auteur (1900-1989) in zijn vaderland Hongarije doorbracht. OL27684520W
Rode liefde Rode liefde Maxim Leo Familiekroniek over het leven in de DDR. OL27686067W
Le dîner de trop Le dîner de trop Ismail Kadare Roman historique. Roman d'humour. OL29231088W
Comrades and Christians Comrades and Christians David I. Kertzer This book examines the popular bases of Communist influence in Italy, focusing on the struggle between the Catholic Church and the Communist Party for the allegiance of the Italian people. The author… OL2978519W
The rise and fall of the Soviet Empire The rise and fall of the Soviet Empire Raymond Pearson "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire describes and explains the creation, maintenance and eventual demise of the Soviet regime across post-1945 eastern Europe. Balancing internal factors such as r… OL3357719W
Retreat from the Finland Station Retreat from the Finland Station Kenneth Murphy In 1940, when Marxism seemed at its apex as a moral and political force, Edmund Wilson published To the Finland Station, his landmark work on the growth of the socialist idea from Vico and Michelet t… OL4276985W
Artists against war and fascism Artists against war and fascism American Artists' Congress. Papers of the First American Artists' Congress OL5474077W
Communism and the remorse of an innocent victimizer Communism and the remorse of an innocent victimizer Zlatko Anguelov "For decades Americans imagined life under Communist regimes to be grim, frightening, and oppressive. Not so, Bulgarian-born Zlatko Anguelov reveals in this memoir. For the most part, life was just n… OL6209085W
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei Friedrich Engels,Karl Marx Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ One of the most influential political tracts ever published… OL629052W
I married a communist I married a communist Philip A. Roth Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer… OL74658W
Marxism and literary criticism Marxism and literary criticism Terry Eagleton Is Marx relevant any more? Why should we care what he wrote? What difference could it make to our reading of literature? Terry Eagleton has some answers in this wonderfully clear analysis. For this R… OL90120W