This work studies of the career of Bolshevik Party leader G.K. Ordzhonikidze, using it as a starting point to answer such questions as the role of top Party leaders in Stalin's decision-making, and what different approaches to the "basic party line" represented.
Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposit..
An historical study of the Soviet labour camp movement based on recently declassified archives. The book examines the operations of the camp system bo..
This work conceptualises the place of non-European histories in the larger narrative of world history. Chapters cover the British Empire, Indonesia, F..
Comparativists evaluate democratization by looking at regimes in the transition and consolidation phases of democracy without considering the essence ..
This book reflects the maturing of ideology studies over the past twenty years, through a new illustration of its approaches and findings. A diverse l..
A very timely scholarly enterprise, this book will be of interest to students of contemporary radical politics, fascism more broadly, US political his..
Dictatorships attempt to justify their rule in numerous ways. This book is about how they do so and why it matters. The chapters were originally publi..
This book engages critical theorist and philosopher Herbert Marcuse’s urgent call to imagine a better world. It originally published as a special issu..
Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes and compares political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the con..
Ideals and Ideologies is a comprehensive compilation of classic and original readings representing all of the major 'isms'. It offers students a gener..
Although anarchism is often thought of as a political topic, the interdisciplinary nature of the Anarchism: A Conceptual Analysis makes it of interest..
The book investigates global crises at the nexus between social movements and crisis management. It produces grounded accounts of movement and managem..