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"She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path," Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, the heroine of his novel Doctor Zhivago.Commissar, revolutionary fighter, espionage agent, journalist, Larisa Reisner (1895-1926) was a model for the 'new woman' of the Russian Revolution, and one of its most popular and brilliant writers, whose works were published in mass editions and read by millions. In this sweeping biography, Cathy Porter sets her life against the backdrop of the world-shaking events of 1917. Drawing on material recently released from the Soviet archives, Porter tells Reisner's story through the memories of those close to her, her own voluminous writings, and her six books-published for the first time together with this biography.

This book undertakes the first general assessment of ecological economics from a Marxist point of view.

Liguori investigates the pathways of Gramsci's thinking, bringing us closer to an author who is more 'widely-known' than understood.

This edited volume grapples with the theoretical, analytical, and strategic questions posed by the recent experience of the radical left in Greece.

Challenging dominant accounts of East and Southeast Asian economic development, Jim Glassman shows the extent to which the "East Asian miracle" was shaped by the geopolitics of war and military spending.

An essential and detailed theorisation of capital's drive to self-expansion and the role of speculation in the shaping of subjectivity by value relations.

This essential volume selects the key essays of renowned Marxist Feminist, and theorist of social reproduction, Martha E. Gimenez.

Forty years of research in historiography and marxism focused on the concept of 'modes of production.'

The first volume in an ambitious effort to collect and translate the work of the eminent revolutionary Marxist economist Henryk Grossman

The first full-length biography of the influential Russian revolutionary, philosopher, physician, and rival to Lenin, Alexander Bogdanov.

A reconstruction of Marx's account of capitalism based on a systematic retranslation of the texts

Risto Alapuro, through a comparative and historical study of the Finnish revolution, provides a pertinent account of how upheavals in powerful countries impact smaller countries.

In this updated and completely revised second edition, Enzo Traverso carefully reconstructs the intellectual debate surrounding the "Jewish Question' over a century of Marxist thought.

In this ground-breaking contribution to political theory, Modenesi re-establishes the centrality of Marxism in conceptualizing political action.

A magisterial, definitive account of the upheavals in Germany in the wake of the Russian revolution.

Mieville critically examines existing theories of international law and offers a compelling alternative Marxist view.

Tomba brilliantly demonstrates how capital places diverse temporalities into hierarchies that incessantly produce and reproduce new forms of class struggle

Marxist economists and philosophers debate the impact of Hegel on Marx, and the insights gained by reading Hegel through Marx.

With same-sex marriage now a national right, this timely volume insists on the continuation of the struggle for LGBT rights.

An essential text in the history of Marxist art theory, available in English for the first time

The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labor struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.

Though claimed by disparate schools of thought, Peter Thomas shows Gramsci is best understood as deepening the classical Marxist tradition.

Decades after initial publication, Vogel's book remains an essential contribution to the development of a materialist theory of gender oppression.

Marx has long been accused of not taking women's issues seriously. Heather Brown sets the record straight.

In this incisive and impeccably researched critique of Postcolonialism, Kaiwar argues that subaltern studies itself is marred by orientalism.

Correcting a longstanding misinterpretation, Moseley argues that there is no 'transformation problem' in Marx's economic theory.

In this stimulating and wide-ranging study, Jason Read uses the concept of transindividuality to re-examine social relation sand subjectivity.

Chattopadhyay convincingly shows that Marx's conception of socialism bears little resemblance to the single-party states often termed "socialist."

Covering Wood's scholarship in various fields, this reader serves as an introduction to one of the most important contemporary Marxists.

Art and Value is the first comprehensive analysis of art's political economy throughout classical, neoclassical and Marxist economics.