Product Description: Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpieceThe second volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 2, contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Imperialism, one of the most important works ever composed on capitalism’s incessant drive for self-expansion and the integral connection between capitalism and imperialism...read more

Product Description: A full reckoning of Nikita Khrushchev’s accomplishments and failures cannot be complete without looking beyond his foreign policy initiatives to assess his efforts to introduce domestic policy reforms in the Soviet Union. Sergei Khrushchev tells the full story of those efforts during the years immediately before his father’s ouster―and of the intrigues and struggles for power that went along with them...read more

Product Description: This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg’s Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg’s most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations...read more

Product Description: The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among her closest friends, lovers and colleagues...read more

Book by Malizia, Emil E.

Product Description: Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting a trial and eventual execution. Remarkably during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book-length manuscripts by hand in his prison cell...read more

Product Description: Through the nearly 450 years since his death, John Calvin has been portrayed by his critics - Protestant as well as Catholic - as a cold, ruthless fanatic. This distorted characterization, for the most part, remains today. What was this man really like? An unfeeling, gloomy monster or a saint untouched by the common problems which beset lesser men? The author examines Calvin's personal correspondence and reveals him as a man capable of human mistakes and weaknesses, and yet, a deeply dedicated, sensitive individual undeserving of the years of vilification...read more

Drawing on 20 years of experience in the U.S. and the Third World, Manoff presents ways in which modern marketing methods can be applied to problems of public health and nutrition practices. He incorporates all aspects of the social marketing process, from theory and background to the necessary tools and techniques, establishing comprehensive guidelines that can be implemented to strengthen current public health programs. An essential resource for developmental health professionals, or anyone interested in innovative marketing techniques.This work includes methods for tailoring health education to the preceptions of the target audience, and techniques for uncovering the resistance points; insights using mass media to extend the reach and impact of public education efforts; tools for designing effective messages; special research approaches including focus groups and feed forward; in-process evaluation tools that identify program flaws during early stages of implementation; planning hints to encourage public and private cooperation; and case studies exploring some of the most interesting and educational applications of social marketing principles.

Classic work of Marxist theory by leading member of the Russian Revolution.

Product Description: Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but―for reasons both complex and obvious―were destined to fail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the October Revolution, the Cold War, Lenin, Stalin, Yeltsin, and the future of Russia, and argues that the development of socialism was cut short by Stalin (view table of contents)

An autobiographical novel about a boy's growing political consiousness in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s