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Published in the centenary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution, No Less Than Mystic is a fresh and iconoclastic history of Lenin and the Bolsheviks for a generation uninterested in Cold War ideologies and stereotypes.

Although it offers a full and complete history of Leninism, 1917, the Russian Civil War and its aftermath, the book devotes more time than usual to the policies and actions of the socialist alternatives to Bolshevism–to the Menshevik Internationalists, the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs), the Jewish Bundists and the anarchists. It prioritises Factory Committees, local Soviets, the Womens’ Zhenotdel movement, Proletkult and the Kronstadt sailors as much as the statements and actions of Lenin and Trotsky. Using the neglected writings and memoirs of Mensheviks like Julius Martov, SRs like Victor Chernov, Bolshevik oppositionists like Alexandra Kollontai and anarchists like Nestor Makhno, it traces a revolution gone wrong and suggests how it might have produced a more libertarian, emancipatory socialism than that created by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Although the book broadly covers the period from 1903 (the formation of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks) to 1921 (the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion) and explains why the Bolshevik Revolution degenerated so quickly into its apparent opposite, it continually examines the Leninist experiment through the lens of a 21st century, de-centralised, ecological, anti-productivist and feminist socialism. Throughout its narrative it interweaves and draws parallels with contemporary anti-capitalist struggles such as those of the Zapatistas, the Kurds, the Argentinean “Recovered Factories”, Occupy, the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Intersectional feminists, attempting to open up the past to the present and points in between.

We do not need another standard history of the Russian Revolution. This is not one.

'No Logo' – это одновременно серьезное экономическое и культурологическое исследование, политический манифест, научная монография и увлекательное журналистское расследование, критикующее глобализацию, неолиберализм и современный экономический порядок, при котором мир, опутанный сетями глобальных брэндов, лишен возможности свободного выбора и не может полноценно развиваться.

'No Logo' – это 'евангелие антикорпоративного движения' ('The New York Times'), книга, которую называют новым 'Капиталом'. Наоми Кляйн раскрывает истинные причины основных конфликтов современности и объясняет, почему некоторые известные и уважаемые компании становятся объектами открытой ненависти миллионов людей, которые выходят на улицы, пытаясь изменить мировой порядок и сделать его более справедливым.

Примечание. К сожалению, книга содержит не все главы – только те, котрые удалось найти в Интернете.

«No Logo» — это одновременно серьезное экономическое и культурологическое исследование, политический манифест, научная монография и увлекательное журналистское расследование, критикующее глобализацию, неолиберализм и современный экономический порядок, при котором мир, опутанный сетями глобальных брэндов, лишен возможности свободного выбора и не может полноценно развиваться.

«No Logo» — это «евангелие антикорпоративного движения» («The New York Times»), книга, которую называют новым «Капиталом». Наоми Кляйн раскрывает истинные причины основных конфликтов современности и объясняет, почему некоторые известные и уважаемые компании становятся объектами открытой ненависти миллионов людей, которые выходят на улицы, пытаясь изменить мировой порядок и сделать его более справедливым.

From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.

Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she’s in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice—sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical—shines. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it.

On the absurdity of denying your age, she says, If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub. On cultural perceptions of fantasy: The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of? On her new cat: He still won’t sit on a lap… I don’t know if he ever will. He just doesn’t accept the lap hypothesis. On breakfast: Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime. And on all that is unknown, all that we discover as we muddle through life: How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.

Amazon.com Review

An Amazon Best Book of December 2017: Ursula K. Le Guin is comfortable with her age. Or at least she’s comfortable with the fact that it’s not a completely comfortable arrangement. In the opener to this collection of personal essays, Le Guin notes that, now that she’s in her eighties, all her time is occupied by the activities of life—she has no spare time and no time to spare. Le Guin is a thoughtful and careful writer, and so her opinions are thoughtfully and carefully organized. She knows what she thinks, and she writes so well that you’ll want to return to these candid essays—the product of a blog she started when she was 81 years old—like returning to an older, wiser friend.

—Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book Review

«Noblesse oblige! Аристократия есть неравенство людей между собою (не в смысле разнообразия, это было бы несходство, но в смысле закона), понимаемое не случайно…»

Как изменился культурный ландшафт после появления глобального супермаркета? Что произошло с современным искусством после Энди Уорхола, с поп-музыкой – после Нирваны и MTV, с кино – после «Звездных войн»? И так ли важны сегодня, когда лейбл на вашей майке ценнее ее фасона, старые понятия вкуса и стиля? Ответы на эти вопросы предлагает в своей книге Джон Сибрук, колумнист журнала New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Village Voice. Его исследование – путеводитель по современной культуре, в которой информационный шум оказывается важнее самого события, качество равно актуальности, и уже никто не в состоянии отделить продукт от его позиционирования, а культурную ценность – от рыночной стоимости. Добро пожаловать в мир Nobrow! Мир, в котором вы уже давно живете, хотя и боитесь себе в этом признаться!

Nonviolent action is the most promising method of moving beyond capitalism to a more humane social and economic system. How can this be achieved? Nonviolence versus Capitalism offers a systematic approach, starting with an analysis of capitalism from the viewpoint of nonviolence, outlining nonviolent economic alternatives and describing what is involved in a nonviolence strategy. A check list for activists is proposed and used to assess diverse campaigns, including workers’ struggles, sabotage, environmental campaigns, social defence, global campaigns and economic alternatives.

Brian Martin is associate professor in Science, Technology & Society at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has studied nonviolent action since the late 1970s, is the author of many books and articles, and has long been involved in activist groups.

Norman Mailer was one of the giants of American letters and one of the most celebrated public figures of his time. He was a novelist, journalist, biographer, and filmmaker; a provocateur and passionate observer of his times; and a husband, father, and serial philanderer.

Perhaps nothing characterized Mailer more than his unbounded ambition. He wanted not merely to be the greatest writer of his generation, but a writer great enough to be compared to Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. As Michael Lennon describes, he even had presidential ambitions, although he settled for running for mayor of New York City. He championed personal freedom and civil liberties, calling himself a “left conservative,” and yet he was Enemy #1 of the Women’s Movement. He was as pugnacious in real life as in print, engaging in famous feuds and fights. Although he considered himself first and foremost a novelist, his greatest literary contribution may have been in journalism, where he used his novelistic gifts in tandem with self-revelation to explore the American psyche. In that regard, the subtitle of his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Armies of the Night is telling: “History as a Novel, the Novel as History.” He would return to certain subjects obsessively: John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, sex, technology, and the intricate relationship of fame and identity. Michael Lennon’s definitive biography captures Mailer in all his sharp complexities and shows us how he self-consciously invented and reinvented himself throughout his lifetime.

Michael Lennon knew Mailer for thirty-five years, and in writing this biography, he has had the cooperation of Mailer’s late widow, Norris Church, his ex-wives, and all of his children, as well as his sister, Barbara. He also had access to Mailer’s vast, unpublished correspondence and papers, and he interviewed dozens of people who knew Mailer. Norman Mailer: A Double Life gives us the man in full, a remarkable and unique figure in the context of his times.

Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by “A War Correspondent’s Kit.”

Summary by Neeru Iyer

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Сегодня вряд ли уже отыщется хоть одно государство на нашей планете, где ну совсем не было бы наших. Они повсюду – от крохотной деревушки, затерянной в австралийской саванне, до центра мегаполиса по имени Лондон. Сотни, тысячи, миллионы людей разных национальностей, отечеством для которых был и навсегда останется русский язык, разъехались, разлетелись по мировым городам и весям. Наши за границей и стали главными героями этой книги.