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La cité harmonieuse selon Marx : science totale et révolution
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ISBN: 2874020583 9782874020582 Year: 2003 Volume: *18 Publisher: Bierges Mols


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De Nieuwe Tijd : sociaaldemocratisch maandschrift 1896-1921 : spiegel van socialisme en vroeg communisme in Nederland
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ISBN: 9052600678 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam Aksant

The red millionaire
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ISBN: 1281722197 9786611722197 0300130090 9780300130096 9781281722195 0300098472 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Willy Münzenberg-an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon-became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and he ran an international media empire that churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns. Sean McMeekin tells Münzenberg's extraordinary story, arguing persuasively that his financial chicanery and cynical propaganda efforts weakened the non-Communist left, enraged the right, and helped feed a cycle that culminated in Nazism.Drawing extensively on recently opened Moscow archives, McMeekin describes how Münzenberg parlayed his friendship with Lenin into a personal fortune and how Münzenberg's mysterious financial manipulations outraged Social Democrats and lent rhetorical ammunition to the Nazis. His book sheds new light on Comintern finances, propaganda strategy, the use of front organizations to infiltrate non-Communist circles, and the breakdown of democracy in the Weimar Republic. It is also an engrossing tale of a Communist con man whose name once aroused fear, loathing, and admiration around the world.

Labor of Dionysus : a critique of the state-form.
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ISBN: 0816620865 Year: 2003 Volume: 4. Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota press


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Gefangenschaft, Revolution, Heimkehr : die Bedeutung der Kriegsgefangenenproblematik für die Geschichte des Kommunismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa 1917-1920
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ISBN: 9783205770688 Year: 2003 Publisher: Böhlau

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Up to the 1980s prisoners of war were hardly even mentioned in military history. Only in recent years have scientists acknowledged the importance of this topic. For their investigations some of them chose the First World War, especially the Eastern front, where more than 5 million soldiers were captured until the revolutionary events of 1917/18. Contrary to the few existing studies, the present publication concentrates more on the evaluation of captivity in the historical background rather than on the description of "POW-fates" in "the hands of their enemies". It therefore focuses on the meaning of captivity and repatriation during the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Communist International. Based on documents of the central archives in Vienna and Moscow, the thesis comes to the following results: On the one hand, conflicts between the soldiers of the Central Powers in the former Tsarist empire, in particular between the Austro-Hungarian nationalities, for example between the "Bolshevik internationalists" and the "Czech Legion", played a decisive role in the beginning of an Eastern European "period of confusion" which can hardly be entitled a "Russian Civil War". On the other hand, former prisoners functioned as founders of the Comintern and leaders of the first communist parties outside Soviet Russia. The activities of POWs thus marked the starting point of the international cadrerecruitment for the Comintern, which became a significant aspect in the foreign politics of the "first proletarian republic" and consequently in the so called "short 20th century" defined by the existence of the USSR and its "satellite states".

Rethinking the red scare : the Lusk Committee and New York's crusade against radicalism, 1919-1923
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ISBN: 1135937117 1138868019 1280110627 0203497856 9780203497852 0415947677 9786610110629 661011062X 9781135937065 9781135937102 9781135937119 9780415947671 9781138868014 1135937109 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Re-evaluates the Red Scare that followed World War One in light of the new methods of political repression developed in New York, methods that established a pattern for future episodes of intolerance.


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Trabalho necessário.
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ISSN: 1808799X Year: 2003 Publisher: Niterói : Universidade Federal Fluminense, Faculdade de Educação, Núcleo de Estudos, Documentação e Dados sobre Trabalho e Educação,

Enterprise and welfare reform in communist Asia
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ISBN: 0203005325 1135758611 128017532X 071465499X 071468399X 9780203005323 9786610175321 6610175322 9780714654997 9780714683997 9781135758615 9781135758561 1135758565 9781135758608 1135758603 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass,

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Featuring a wide geographical scope, this collection of essays surveys enterprise and welfare reforms in all the remaining four Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they can no longer place major reliance upon assistance from other 'fraternal' states and have to devise their own strategies for survival. All have shown a trend towards greater reliance on market forces, though in different ways and to varying degrees. Enterprise management has to adapt to this. In some of them entrepreneurs have become politically and socially accep

Culture, civilization, and humanity
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ISBN: 1135756937 0203610199 1280059982 0203486137 9780203486139 0714684341 0714655546 9781135756932 9780203610190 9781280059988 9781135756888 9781135756925 9780714655543 9780714684345 1135756929 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass,

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Divided into four parts and comprising Tarek Heggy's writings on the Egyptian mind, this volume makes an attempt to diagnose the illnesses of contemporary Egyptian political and socio-economic actuality and prescribe two solutions: a liberal political system and a modern market economy.

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