This is not the place for an examination of he purges which devastated the Soviet Union in the 1930’s, and their impact on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The aim of this introduction is very ...

In this novel treatment of an old topic, Norman Geras has found himself facing in two diametrically opposite directions: within the Marxist tradition, there are those who wish to deny legitimate room ...

Ellen Meiksins Wood has delivered a sweeping broadside against the idea that Rational Choice Marxism (rcm) might hoist a standard around which the intellectual forces of the left could rally.footnote ...

Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

we have no words for the horror of the present, for the ghostly bodies showing through the plastic wrap.footnote ＊ No words for the faces of despair and elation bubbling from the TV screen, faces of ...

Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe consists of twenty papers written by Andrew Sherratt over the past quarter of a century.footnote ＊ Taken together, these articles represent a uniquely ...

In 1934 when Gaston Bachelard published his Nouvel Esprit Scientifiquefootnote 1 and Karl Popper’s Logik der Forschungfootnote 2 appeared few philosophers would have dissented from the view that ...

In his highly praised History of Russian Literature, Mirsky delivers a severe judgment on the Russian Formalist Movement (1915—30) which is now once again, at least in the ‘West’, attracting great ...

For the last 46 years the Communist Party has played a part in left-wing politics in Britain out of all proportion to its membership and electoral support. Other left-wing Socialist groups, ...

leonard schapiro’s recent book is the first general history of the Soviet Communist Party by a Western scholar, and it contains a great deal of information not previously available in English. It is ...

The birth of the women’s liberation movement was the result of a unique and sharply polarized political conjuncture, between the years 1968 and 1975, which had a radicalizing effect throughout the ...

Before discussing the new agricultural policy, there must be a brief account of politico-economic policy and development since 1954, since very little serious analytical material has appeared in the ...