This insightful book sheds light on three competing ideological windows on the world: conservatism, liberalism and socialism. David Reisman explores the importance of these perspectives not only to generating public policy, but also in our capacity to explain the very nature of reality. Surveying the diversity of beliefs that govern and guide contemporary society, Reisman illustrates the pre-eminence of three all-encompassing meta-ideologies that capture heterogenous philosophies. The book trac...
Exploring the streets of London, Manchester, Belfast, Edinburgh or Cardiff, one cannot help but notice the striking transformations taking place in the urban landscapes. This prominent regeneration of urban areas in the UK and around the world has become an increasingly important issue amongst governments and populations. The growing concern has been a result of the impacts of the decline of cities since the collapse of manufacturing industries and the heightening of global competition. A range...
Buddhism under Mao shows what kind of a problem Buddhism presented to the Chinese Communists and how they solved it. Relying largely on materials from the Mainland press, Holmes Welch has made what is probably the most detailed study so far available of the fate of a world religion in a Communist country. He describes how Buddhist institutions were controlled, protected, utilized, and suppressed; and explains why the larger needs of foreign and domestic policy dictated the Communists' approach t...
Contributors consider why communist political systems in the USSR, Eastern Europe, China and the developing world could not be revamped so as to allow communist parties to retain political power within an environment of reform. Among the issues discussed are the unwillingness of communist parties to relinquish real political and economic control; the reemergence of virulent nationalism and its role in ensuring the disintegration of multinational states; postcommunist transition strategies, both...
Facts About International Communist Front Organisations
by Anonymous
The House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1945-1950
by Robert Kenneth Carr
Red Star, Blue Star (East European Monographs S., v.487)
by Andrew Handler and Susan V. Meschel
This text traces the evolution of Communism in post-war Hungary. It identifies the distinctive features of the Jewish community and describes the relationship of the Communist authorities and the Jewish leadership, pinpointing the difficulties of Jewish students in all walks of life. The second part of the book contains the recollections of 17 people, all Holocaust survivors, who faced the threat of Communism in Hungary. These contributors managed to preserve freedom of speech and action, as wel...
The Romantic Exiles; a Nineteenth-century Portrait Gallery
by Edward Hallett 1892-1982 Carr
Soviet Proposals on Germany and Berlin
by Nikita Sergeevich 1894-1971 Khrushchev
Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956 (Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, #1995)
Socialist Illusion; Being a Critical Review of the Principles of State Socialism
by Reginald Tayler