Query: Non History Books about communism
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Lost World of British Communism
The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh
Ten Days That Shook the World
The Appointment (novel)
China Misperceived
Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left
Ideology and Organization in Communist China
China Fights Back
The Captive Mind
The God that Failed
Evidence from documents: The Lost World of British Communism: '''''The Lost World of British Communism''''' is a book by Raphael Samuel first published, posthumously, in 2006 by Verso Books.
The book is composed of a series of essays that were collected together to mark the ten year anniversary of Samuel's death in 1996. They describe the development of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1940s and the experience of being a member of it from the vantage point of the 1980s.
The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh: an unfinished biography of Chinese Communist leader Zhu De.
Ten Days That Shook the World: 1919 Boni & Liveright first edition
'''''Ten Days That Shook the World''''' (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed presented a firsthand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution. Reed followed many of the most prominent Bolsheviks closely during his time in Russia. John Reed was on an assignment for ''The Masses'', a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting on the Russian Revolution. Although Reed stated that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth" during the time of the event, he stated in the preface that "in the struggle my sympathies were not neutral" (since the book primarily shares the perspective of the Russian working class).
The Appointment (novel): The Appointment'' portrays the humiliations of Communist Romania, told from the perspective of a young woman working as a clothing-factory worker who has been summoned by the secret police. She is accused of sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy asking that the recipient marry her to help her get out of the country.
China Misperceived: Mosher takes the title "Age of Infatuation" from Harold Isaacs's classic ''Scratches on Our Minds'' (1958) to describe the period during the 1930s and 1940s in which Communist China
Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left: '''''Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left''''' is the first anthology of autobiographical writings by "Red Diaper Babies" — children of communist or other radical-left parents. Edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro, it consists of memoirs, short stories, and poems. Among the 40 authors are such well known figures as journalist Carl Bernstein, feminist writer Kim Chernin, scientist Richard Levins, and author/activist Robert Meeropol (son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg).
Ideology and Organization in Communist China: '''''Ideology and Organization in Communist China''''' is a 1966 book by the American sociologist and sinologist Franz Schurmann that offers a sociological analysis of the Chinese Communist revolution
China Fights Back: It was a diary of her time with the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Captive Mind: Non History Books: was written soon after the author's defection from Stalinist Poland in 1951. In it, Miłosz drew upon his experiences as an illegal author during the Nazi Occupation and of being a member of the ruling class of the postwar People's Republic of Poland
about communism: The book attempts to explain the allure of Stalinism to intellectuals, its adherents' thought processes, and the existence of both dissent and collaboration within the postwar Soviet Bloc
The God that Failed: a 1949 collection of six essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright. The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of communism.