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19061) Day of Reckoning: A Novel
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First published in 1955, Day of Reckoning by Ralph de Toledano, author of Seeds of Treason, is a novel based on the 1943 assassination of Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s.
The murder of an idealistic anarchist prompts an inquiry by Paul Castelar, an honest newspaperman and a veteran of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil...
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Wilhelm Liebknecht, (born March 29, 1826, Giessen, Hesse [Germany]-died Aug. 7, 1900, Berlin), German socialist, close associate of Karl Marx, and later cofounder of the German Social Democratic Party. In this brief but fascinating account, Liebknecht relates his involvement with Karl Marx, mainly during his exile in England.
19063) Prisoner of the OGPU
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Prisoner of the OGPU, first published in 1935, is a firsthand, absorbing account of the author's 4 years in the Soviet gulag (1928-32) at the hands of the Soviet secret police (known as the OGPU at the time, later renamed the NKVD, MGB, and KGB). At the time of his arrest, George Kitchin, a Finnish citizen, was working in Russia as a representative for an American firm. He was charged with violating an obscure regulation, held in prison, and then...
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A fascinating exploration of early to mid-twentieth-century politics as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat.
History seems to repeat itself. With ongoing wars abroad and the collapse of financial institutions at home, Americans rely on President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to bring about positive change. When the US stock market collapsed in 1928 and World War II broke out, the nation turned to Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Franklin D. Roosevelt in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and political career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. When Roosevelt was first elected in 1932, the USA was in the midst of the Great Depression, a major economic crisis. Thanks to a series of progressive, interventionist...
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This Letort Paper provides a detailed chronology and analysis of the intelligence failures and successes of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The author, Mr. Kenneth Absher, contends that, when our national security is at stake, the United States should not hesitate to undertake risky intelligence collection operations, including espionage, to penetrate our adversary's deceptions. At the same time, the United States must also understand that our adversary...
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Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk, economist of the Austrian school, wrote this incisive critique of Marxist economics amid rising public support for socialism, communism and state-controlled markets in Europe.
Published in 1896, this work criticizes Marxist theory from two angles: firstly, that the notion of value which Marx puts forward contradict his own ideas. The author asserts that the link between the price of producing goods and the value produced by...
19069) Again, May God Forgive Us!
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On July 14, 1951 an American business man sat down to write a letter to a friend. It was a letter that took some thirty days, and ran to thirty-seven typewritten pages. In these pages, Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., set forth brilliantly and convincingly a straightforward clarification of some important recent history in Asia. At the same time he poured into paragraph after paragraph his indignation at the stupidity and suspicions of treason revealed by...
19070) A Primer of Socialism
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This book is a concise and authoritative introduction to the principles, history, and prospects of socialism, written by one of the leading British economists and statisticians of the early 20th century. Kirkup explains the key concepts and debates of socialist theory and practice, from utopian visions to scientific socialism, from cooperatives to nationalization, from Marx to Bernstein. The book is a lucid and engaging guide to one of the most influential...
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This book shows that you can trust the Communists to pursue their plan for world domination, but places in your hands the most effective defense weapon there is. Now you can have full knowledge of Communism, learn to understand it, oppose it, and thus bring true freedom to prevail throughout the world.
"MUST READING"-American Legion Magazine
"...should be read by every American, especially by the millions who are unaware of the insidious and subversive...
19072) I Led 3 Lives
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I Led Three Lives: Citizen, Communist, Counterspy, first published in 1952, is a fascinating account of the author's infiltration into the American Communist party in the 1940's as a counterspy who then passed on his information to the FBI. Beginning as an advertising executive in Boston, Philbrick was inadvertently drawn into a front organization of the Communist Party. He was subsequently recruited by the U.S. Government to document Soviet efforts,...
19073) Return From the U.S.S.R
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During the 1930s, Gide briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveller (he never formally joined the Communist Party). As a distinguished writer sympathising with the cause of communism, he was invited to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of writers. The tour disillusioned him and he subsequently became quite critical of Soviet Communism. This criticism of Communism caused him to lose socialist friends, especially...
19074) Out of Bondage
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In 1934, Elizabeth Bentley came home from Fascist Italy to an America still shattered by the Depression. Like countless others, she was drawn to the anti-Nazi rhetoric of the Communist Party. This hypnotic book is her detailed and intimate story of how she joined the Communist Party and rose to become a key Soviet agent in New York and Washington. She reveals the organization, tactics, and strategies of the party, and names her espionage contacts:...
19075) The Techniques of Communism
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It is this study of the techniques of Communism on any large scale which has been lacking, although there is no subject more important for the United States. An increasing number of community leaders have become aware of this defect and have sought to remedy it through courses on the techniques of Communism. Certain colleges and universities have introduced such courses into the curriculum. The National Education Association, at its 1952 convention,...
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In this work Sidney Hook, a distinguished scholar, examines the chief issues, which have divided Marxists from non-Marxists, and Marxists from each other. This volume of exposition, comment and readings is offered as an introduction to the study of Marxism in conflicting theory and practice. A valuable collection of original source readings are provided, including "The Communist Manifesto", "Historical Materialism," "The Fetishism of Commodities,"...
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The Hidden Russia, first published in 1960, is a detailed recounting of the author's ten-years as a political prisoner inside the prisons and slave labor camps of the former Soviet Union. From the mock-trials and cells of the infamous Lubyanka, to the freezing boxcars and inhuman conditions, beatings and deprivations of the Siberian camps, Nikolai Krasnov paints a bleak picture of daily life in the Russian prison system established by the Communists....
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In 1900 Bernard Shaw completed the difficult task of drafting the Fabian's society position in the manifest Fabianism and the Empire. The society's progressive program advocated for socialist values, social justice and women rights. Against the background of these modern and leftist values though, the society's position on imperialism is somehow astonishing. One of the motives for its supportive stand on imperialism lies in the yet valid division...
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This exploration of Soviet communist political maneuvering was written in 1962 at the height of the Cold War by the then professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the former leader of the American Communist Party. With examples from recent history the authors show how the inner workings of the Soviet machine differ from the popular idea of how communists proceed. The book also details how the Western World could formulate...
19080) Literature and Revolution
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Literature and Revolution, written by the founder and commander of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, in 1924 and first published in 1925, represents a compilation of essays that Trotsky drafted during the summers of 1922 and 1923. This book is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist standpoint. By discussing the various literary trends that were around in Russia between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Trotsky analyses the concrete forces...
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