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1. Educate, Agitate, Organize Library Editions: Political Science Volume 59

   One Hundred Years of Fabian Socialism

   By Patricia Pugh

   This volume describes the way in which the Fabian Society works, the distinctive contributions of individuals to that work, the structure they have built and the methods they have evolved to facilitate their labours. Some Fabians are dedicated to shaping economic and social policies, speaking or...

   Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics

   Edited by Shalini Puri

   The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the thirtieth anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan Revolutions, and as such offered an occasion to assess the complex legacies of revolutionary politics in the Caribbean. This volume considers what we might learn from such...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Class, States and International Relations

   A critical appraisal of Robert Cox and neo-Gramscian theory

   By Adrian Budd

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   This book provides an outline and a critique of neo-Gramscian international relations theory, from a Marxist perspective. Focusing on the pioneering work of Robert Cox, but also drawing on the wider neo-Gramscian literature, this book presents a comprehensive account of neo-Gramscian international...

   Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Marx and Living Labour

   By Laurent Baronian

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Institutional Legacies of Communism

   Change and Continuities in Minority Protection

   Edited by Karl Cordell, Timofey Agarin, Alexander Osipov

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   Twenty years after the demise of communist policy, this book evaluates the continuing communist legacies in the current minority protection systems and legislations across a number of states in post-communist Europe. The fall of communism and the process of democratisation across post-communist...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Economic Prospects - East and West (Routledge Revivals)

   A View from the East

   By Jan Winiecki

   First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries. Rather than passively following the developments of this crisis, the author seeks instead to identify the reasons for failure and to examine...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Women’s History and Local Community in Postwar Japan

   By Curtis Anderson Gayle

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   This timely look at a neglected corner of Japanese historiography spotlights the decade following the end of World War II, a time in which Japanese society was undergoing the transformation from imperial state to democratic nation. For certain working and middle-class women involved in...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Communist Quest for National Legitimacy in Europe, 1918-1989

   Edited by Martin Mevius

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   There are two popular myths concerning the relationship between communism and nationalism. The first is that nationalism and communism are wholly antagonistic and mutually exclusive. The second is the assertion that in communist Eastern Europe nationalism was oppressed before 1989, to emerge...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Khrushchev in the Kremlin

   Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–64

   Edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilic

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
10. Althusser and Law

    Edited by Laurent de Sutter

    Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

    Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser’s philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser’s philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained&...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge