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The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis selection of Mayakovsky's work covers his entire career--from the earliest pre-revolutionary lyrics to a poem found in a notebook after his suicide. Splendid translations of the poems, with the Russian on a facing page, and a fresh, colloquial version of Mayakovsky's dramatic masterpiece, The Bedbug... -
![The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký]()
The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto... -
![The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story by Sergei Dovlatov]()
The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story by Sergei Dovlatov
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Zone is a satirical novelization of Dovlatov’s time as a prison guard for the Soviet Army in the early 1960s. Snapshots of the prison are juxtaposed with the narrator’s letters to Igor Markovich of Hermitage Press in which he urges Igor to publish the very book we’re reading. As Igor receives portions of the prison camp manuscript, so too does the reader... -
![Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel]()
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s... -
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![Mother by Maxim Gorky]()
Mother by Maxim Gorky
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsEvery day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smoke-begrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen's suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street. With somber faces they hastened forward like frightened roaches, their muscles stiff from insufficient sleep... -
![Kimjongilia by Victor Fox]()
Kimjongilia by Victor Fox
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPoor kitchen worker Kim Suk is asked to make the ultimate sacrifice for her Party—marry, and inform on, the puppet they will install as Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Sung. No one told her he was capriciously cruel and sexually deviant... -
![The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness]()
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnce the gleaming Paris of the East, Bucharest in 1989 is a world of corruption and paranoia, in thrall to the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. Old landmarks are falling to demolition crews, grocery shelves are empty, and informants are everywhere. Into this state of crisis, a young British man arrives to take a university post he never interviewed for... -
![Wild Ginger by Anchee Min]()
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution... -
![Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min]()
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is an evocation of the woman who married Chairman Mao and fought to succeed him. The unwanted daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound, ran away to join an opera troupe and eventually met Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yenan... -
![Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis, Pastora Filigrana]()
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis, Pastora Filigrana
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women."Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard...Categorized as:
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![Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Angela Y. Davis]()
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, Angela Y. Davis
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOn May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J...Categorized as:
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![The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins]()
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThe hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians...Categorized as:
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![Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor]()
Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am.He became famous through his academy award-winning performance as Dith Pran in the film The Killing Fields, but the key to Haing Ngor's screen success was the terrible truth of his own experiences in the rice paddies and labour camps of revolutionary Cambodia... -
![Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti]()
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBlackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology-terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark... -
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![The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson]()
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force...Categorized as:
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![Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.]()
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities...Categorized as:
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![Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton]()
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party... -
![The Second World War by Antony Beevor]()
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945... -
![Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall]()
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe struggle for Vietnam occupies a central place in the history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, the conflict drew in all the world’s powers and saw two of them—first France, then the United States—attempt to subdue the revolutionary Vietnamese forces... -
![How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney]()
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. It implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one’s will by any means available...Categorized as:
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![Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin]()
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStudies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century. Illuminations includes Benjamin's views on Kafka, with whom he felt the closest personal affinity, his studies on Baudelaire and Proust (both of whom he translated), his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater... -
![The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul-Sartre]()
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul-Sartre
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history...Categorized as:
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![The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James]()
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1789 the West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France. The entire structure of what was arguably the most profitable colony in the world rested on the labour of half a million slaves. In 1791 the waves of unrest inspired by the French Revolution reached across the Atlantic dividing the loyalties of the white population of the island...Categorized as:
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![A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes]()
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most significant event of the twentieth century... -
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![Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum]()
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain.In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century... -
![Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin]()
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history... -
![Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell]()
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, and created American politics as we know it today... -
![Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell]()
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. Farrell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America’s most complex president. In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America’s most controversial political figures... -
![Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton]()
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1967, this revolutionary work defined a phrase that had become a central part of the Civil Rights vocabulary. In Black Power, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Charles V. Hamilton exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a viable political framework for reform...Categorized as:
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![Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano]()
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSince its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx...
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