Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It

Much has been written about how awful the German Democratic Republic supposedly was: a people imprisoned by a wall and subjugated by an omnipresent Stasi security apparatus. Such descriptions are base…

If you like book Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Blackshirts & 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…
Buy this book on Amazon
The State and Revolution

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və inqilab” dövlət nəzəriyyəsinin öz dərinliyi və əhatəliliyi cəhətdən misilsiz elmi şərhidir, marksizmin…
Buy this book on Amazon
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of the establishment of large-scale capitalist industry and its social consequences.
Buy this book on Amazon
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Principles of Communism

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one in June and the other in October. The latter, which is known as Principles of Communism, was first pu…
Buy this book on Amazon
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

"A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given u…
Buy this book on Amazon
Critique of the Gotha Program

Offering perhaps Marx's most detailed pronouncement on programmatic matters of revolutionary strategy, The Critique of the Gotha Program discusses the "dictatorship of the proletariat", the period of …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

An eternal being created human society as it is today, and submission to superiors and authority is imposed on the lower classes by divine will. This suggestion, coming from the pulpit, platform and p…
Buy this book on Amazon
Red Star Over the Third World

Buy this book on Amazon
Dialectical and Historical Materialism

A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism.
Buy this book on Amazon
What Is to Be Done?

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. T…
Buy this book on Amazon
The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century

Buy this book on Amazon
Ten Myths About Israel

The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )

In this groundbreaking book, published on the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

Originally published in 1940, "Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder is a popular essay in Marxian strategy and tactics. About the Author Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) was the founder of the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Discourse on Colonialism

This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbea…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

The 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 approxima…
Buy this book on Amazon
Reform or Revolution

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" away exploitation and economic crises.
Buy this book on Amazon
On Contradiction

Conhecido sobretudo como homem de ação, Mao Tsé-tung foi também o filósofo que discutia as tendências do pensamento revolucionário na China sob o calor dos acontecimentos.

Alguns dos escritos de Mao - …
Buy this book on Amazon
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, …
Buy this book on Amazon
Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit

The text of "Wage-Labour and Capital" came from lectures Marx delivered to the German Workmen's Club of Brussels in 1847, a time of great political upheaval. The relation between wage-labour to capita…
Buy this book on Amazon