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The Road to Wigan Pier
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The Road to Wigan PierThe Road to Wigan Pier

The Road to Wigan Pier was written by George Orwell and published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions amongst the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism. Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism; but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.
 
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
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Capitalism, Socialism and DemocracyCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is the most famous book by Joseph Schumpeter in which he deals with capitalism, socialism and creative destruction. First published in 1942, it is largely unmathematical, compared with neoclassical works, focusing on the unexpected, rapid spurts of entrepreneur-driven growth instead of static models


 
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A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed
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A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed
Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power. Foregoing the projection of Western norms and assumptions, he seeks to achieve a clearer understanding of a civilization that has perplexed its critics and its champions alike.
 
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Tags: totalitarian, totalitarism, society, empire, Soviet Union, Russia, USSR, communism, socialism, geopolitics, ideology, Soviet, system, norms, Western, assumptions, Soviet
The Early History of National Socialism - Audio Lectures (mp3)
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The Early History of National Socialism - Audio Lectures (mp3)8 lectures professor Thomas Childers University of Pennsilvania

The question that would arise in every discussion about the rise and fall of the Third Reich is why study the national-socialist experience, why look at the Third Reich. It is, after all, a morbid, depressing and terrifying topic. And yet it is the topic that has to be addressed, has to be analyzed, has to be coped with. In many ways it is the pivotal experience of XXth Century Western Civilisation, linking political, economic, social and moral issues ...

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