Vladimir Lenin Sparked a Socialist Century

The State and Revolution

Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. Written in the months running up to the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin turned the traditional s...

The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin

Edited by Gregory Elliott

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long ti...

Imperialism and the National Question

by V. I. Lenin

Introduction by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of th...

Lenin

by Georg Lukács

Translated by Nicholas Jacobs

Out of the chaos following Lenin’s death and the mounting fury against Lukács and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as “the only theo...

Travellers of the World Revolution

by Brigitte Studer

The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history. The book offers a new and fascinating account of thi...

Not By Politics Alone

by V. I. Lenin

Edited by Tamara Deutscher

This vivid selection, compiled and introduced by Tamara Deutscher, written by Lenin and those who knew him, brings us the revolution in his everyday life – the man who lived by politics but not by ...

The Day After the Revolution

by V. I. Lenin and Slavoj Žižek

Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Žižek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin’s...

Revolution

by Enzo Traverso

This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of “dialectical images”: Marx’s “locomotives of history,” Alexandra Kollontai’s sexua...

Lenin's Childhood

by Isaac Deutscher

Introduction by Tamara Deutscher and Gonzalo Pozo

When he died suddenly in 1967, Isaac Deutscher had completed only the compelling first chapter of a long-anticipated biography of Lenin, published here. It covers Lenin’s family background, birth a...

The Dilemmas of Lenin

by Tariq Ali

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowle...

Red Flag Wounded

by Ronald Suny

Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration. Those monumental years were ma...

Trotsky as Alternative

by Ernest Mandel

Translated by Gus Fagan

Leon Trotsky has become one of the twentieth century’s most enduring political legends. Joining the Bolsheviks on the eve of the 1917 revolution he played a vital role as Lenin’s right-hand man in ...

From Stalinism to Eurocommunism

by Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of W...

Before Stalinism

by Samuel Farber

Before Stalinism is a historical study of democratic life and institutions and their decline in the early years of the Russian Revolution. While attempting to synthesize a wealth of available hi...

The Tailor of Ulm

by Lucio Magri

Translated by Patrick Camiller

The Italian Communist Party was once one of the most powerful and vibrant parties of the West. In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual figures of the Italia...

The Lenin Scenario

by Tariq Ali

Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali’s captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical reco...

The Disintegration of the Monolith

by Boris Kagarlitsky

Translated by Renfrey Clarke

In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite.Kag...

Red Flag Unfurled

by Ronald Suny

Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores the historiographical controversies...

The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

“Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class.” So begins Vivian Gornick’s exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in t...

Terrorism and Communism

by Leon Trotsky

Preface by H. N. Brailsford

Foreword by Slavoj Žižek

Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to t...

Rosa Luxemburg

by J.P. Nettl

This biography, first published half a century ago, remains the most detailed and comprehensive study of Rosa Luxemburg. Nettl’s extensive knowledge of the social and political context of the Europ...

Down with Colonialism!

by Ho Chi Minh

Introduction by Walden Bello

Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, having defeated Japanese and French colonialist became a hate figure of the USA during the Vietnam War....

Party, Army and Masses in China

by Livio Maitan

Assessments of the Chinese Cultural Revolution are usually Cold War indictments or glowing portraits of Maoism. Party, Army and Masses in China a classic account of the Chinese Revolution written b...

On Practice and Contradiction

by Mao Tse-Tung

Introduction by Slavoj Žižek

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of referenc...

Paths of Revolution

by Adolfo Gilly

Edited by Tony Wood

Translated by Lorna Scott Fox

The Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed many of Latin America’s most dramatic events, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s and Cuba during the Missile Crisis to the guerri...

The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy

by Kjell Östberg

Historian Kjell Östberg presents the first comprehensive study of one of the most influential political movements of our time. Swedish Social Democracy was an inspiration to young socialists around...

China's Revolutions in the Modern World

by Rebecca E. Karl

China’s emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation’s “great rejuvenation,” a...

Revolution and Counterrevolution in China

by Lin Chun

Over recent decades China has experienced massive change and development. China is the world’s fastest growing economy, and has become a global superpower once again. But this development has throw...

China's Twentieth Century

by Wang Hui

What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and inChina’s Twentieth Century the country’s leading c...

After the Fall

Contributions by Giovanni Arrighi, Norberto Bobbio, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Eduardo Galeano, Jürgen Habermas, Fred Halliday, Eric Hobsbawm, Fredric Jameson, Ralph Miliband, Maxine Molyneux, Lynne Segal, Ivan Szelenyi, Göran Therborn and E. P. Thompson

Edited by Robin Blackburn

The fall of Communism has been an epoch-making event. The distinguished contributors to After the Fall explain to us the meaning of Communism's meteoric trajectory - and explore the rational ground...