Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...

Globalization under and after socialism : a comparative and historical perspective -- The limits of autarchy in the periphery : trade, planning, and East European industrialization, 1946-69 -- Upgrading socialism : technology, debt, and East European reform, 1968-85 -- Socialist...

Introduction -- The original idea: the consummation of the revolution in social freedom -- An antiquated intellectual structure: the spirit and culture of industrialism -- Paths of renewal (1): socialism as historical experimentalism -- Paths of renewal (2): the idea of a democratic form of life

The patrimonial state under Venezuela's twenty-first century socialism / Humberto García L., president, National Academy of Economic Sciences of Venezuela, Venezuela -- Use and potential of plant species biodiversity in Venezuela agroforestry systems : cultural, environmental, social and...

Preface: March 17, 1883 -- Trier (1818-1836) -- Bonn and Berlin (1836-1842) -- Cologne (1842-1843) -- Paris (1843-1845) -- Brussels (1845-1848) -- Cologne II (1848-1849) -- London I (1849-1859): "The second as farce" -- London II (1859-1883): "The greatest living thinker" -- Major works: the...

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist...

Comprehensive collectivization in Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1929-1932: overcoming bias and partiality in assessing modernizing effects of Soviet collectivization on the Kyrgyz and their developmental advancement / (Bakyt Baimatov, PhD, Central Asian Program (CAP), Elliott...

Prólogo : ante el fin del socialismo rentista, una propuesta de reforma económica / José Guerra -- Problemas políticos de un programa de reformas económicas / Diego Bautista Urbaneja -- Venezuela : un balance del socialismo del siglo XXI / Asdrúbal Oliveiros y Carlos Miguel Álvarez --...

As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era...

Introduction -- In the East-West salon -- Bearing the cross of war -- Triumph and tragedy of Red Vienna -- Challenges and responses -- The ctaclysm and its origins -- Injustices and inhumanities -- The precariousness of existence -- Epilogue: a lost world of socialism

Introduction. From Arab socialism to neoliberalism : the politics of immiseration -- Arab socialism in retrospect -- The devastation of peace in Egypt -- The infeasibility of revolution in Syria -- Iraq--then and now -- The perverse transformation -- Permanent war in the Arab world