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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

By Joseph A. Schumpeter ,

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

By Alexei Yurchak ,

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Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR
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Love in the Time of Communism

By Josie McLellan ,

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News from Nowhere
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News from Nowhere

By William Morris ,

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They Divided the Sky
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They Divided the Sky

By Christa Wolf , Luise Von Flotow (translator) ,

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After Capitalism
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After Capitalism

By David Schweickart ,

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Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
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Heaven on Earth

By Joshua Muravchik ,

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Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies
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Socialism

By Christian Niemietz ,

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Socialism: A Very Short Introduction
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Socialism

By Michael Newman ,

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Stalked by Socialism: An Escapee from Communism Shows How We'Re Sliding into Socialism
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Stalked by Socialism

By Jana Kandlova ,

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The Socialist Phenomenon
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The Socialist Phenomenon

By Igor Shafarevich ,

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African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World
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African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania

By Priya Lal ,

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Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism
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Conversations with Gorbachev

By Mikhail Gorbachev , Zdenek Mlynar , George Shriver (translator)

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The Life and Thought of Friedrich Engels: A Reinterpretation
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The Life and Thought of Friedrich Engels

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Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
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Imagining India

By Nandan Nilekani ,

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Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic
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Mao's China and After

By Maurice Meisner ,

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Woman Under Socialism
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Woman Under Socialism

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By Friedrich Engels ,

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Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917 1936
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Women, the State and Revolution

By Wendy Z. Goldman ,

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Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945-1989
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Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style

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Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
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Communities of Resistance

By A. Sivanandan ,

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Visions of China: Photographs, 1957-1980
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Visions of China

By Marc Riboud ,

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The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921
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The Experiment

By Eric Lee ,

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World History and National Identity in China
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World History and National Identity in China

By Xin Fan ,

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Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863-1914
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Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs

By Andrea G. Bonnell ,

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Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich
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Nazi Culture

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The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders
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The Socialist Challenge Today

By Leo Panitch , Sam Gindin , Stephen Maher

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People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons
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People's Power

By Ashley Dawson ,

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Act of Fear: A Dan Fortune Mystery
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Act of Fear

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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
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People of Paradox

By Michael Kammen ,

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North of South
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North of South

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Bread and Wine
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Bread and Wine

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Käthe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist
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Käthe Kollwitz

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The Sane Society
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The Sane Society

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Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital
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Marx's Inferno

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Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform
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Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform

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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
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Half-Earth Socialism

By Troy Vettese , Drew Pendergrass ,

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism
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Weavers of Revolution

By Peter Winn ,

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World Brain
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World Brain

By H.G. Wells ,

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Envisioning Real Utopias
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Envisioning Real Utopias

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Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice
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Gleaning for Communism

By Xenia A. Cherkaev ,

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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
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Socialism

By Ludwig Von Mises ,

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Babbitt
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Babbitt

By Sinclair Lewis ,

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The Way the Future Was: A Memoir
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The Way the Future Was

By Frederik Pohl ,

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Better to Have Loved: the Life of Judith Merril
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Better to Have Loved

By Judith Merril , Emily Pohl-Weary ,

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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Graphic Novel)
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Graphic Novel)

By Scarlett Rickard (artist) , Sophie Rickard ,

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The History of a Difficult Child
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The History of a Difficult Child

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Basic Economics
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Basic Economics

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Capital and Ideology
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Capital and Ideology

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Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
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Eve and the New Jerusalem

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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History
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To the Finland Station

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