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Politics as Leadership

Robert C Tucker

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Philosophy and Myrh in Karl Marx

Robert C Tucker

Tucker examines the role of myth and ideology in the writings of Karl Marx, shedding new light on the philosophical foundations of Marxism and its continuing relevance today. Drawing on…

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The Psychological Factor in Soviet Foreign Policy: Research Memorandum, Rm-1881

Robert C Tucker

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Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation

Stalinism was a system that embraced all facets of political and social life. In this book numerous scholars present their interpretations of Stalinism and its influence on all areas of…

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Philosophy and Myth in Marx

Robert C. Tucker

Karl Marx’s early writing sets out his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism in a comprehensive philosophical framework. Taking full account of these earlier writings, this book…

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Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx

Robert C. Tucker

In Karl Marx’s early writing (first made available many years after his death) his economic interpretation of history and his concept of communism were set in a comprehensive philosophical framework

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Stalinism: Essays in Historical Interpretation

In the years since Stalin’s death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation

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Politics as Leadership

Robert C. Tucker

This text provides an analytical look at politics, leadership and the effect that each has on the other. In what he calls the crisis syndrome , the author examines problems…

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The Marxian Revolutionary Idea

Robert C. Tucker

In this volume Robert C. Tucker looks critically at the later writings of Marx and Engels, not only as political theory but as the ideology for political revolution. From the…

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The Soviet Political Mind: Stalinism and Post-Stalin Change

Robert C. Tucker

The Soviet political mind was a mosaic of ideology and pragmatism.

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Stalin As Revolutionary, 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality

Robert C. Tucker

This towering figure of the twentieth century has hitherto lacked a successful and full-scale biography. The publication of this first volume of a projected trilogy by Robert Tucker marks the…

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Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1929-41

Robert C. Tucker

The second volume in Tucker’s biography of Stalin focuses on the motives and methods used to transform Soviet Russia, a background agricultural nation, into an industrial and military power prepared…

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Stalin as Revolutionary, 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality

Robert C Tucker

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Stalin as Revolutionary 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality

Robert C Tucker

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Patterns in Post-Soviet Leadership

This book summarizes leadership and general political developments in the Soviet Union since the onset of the reforms. It explores new developments and old continuities in elite politics in the…

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Patterns in Post-Soviet Leadership

This book summarizes leadership and general political developments in the Soviet Union since the onset of the reforms. It explores new developments and old continuities in elite politics in the…

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The Marx-Engels Reader

This revised and enlarged edition of the leading anthology provides the essential writings of Marx and Engels–those works necessary for an introduction to Marxist thought and ideology.

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Post-Communist Studies and Political Science: Methodology and Empirical Theory in Sovietology

Robert C. Tucker

This volume examines theoretical approaches and research methodologies to provide understanding of perestroika and post-communism. It focuses on the Soviet Union and its successor states, providing analysis applied to other…

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Post-Communist Studies and Political Science: Methodology and Empirical Theory in Sovietology

Robert C. Tucker

This volume examines theoretical approaches and research methodologies to provide understanding of perestroika and post-communism. It focuses on the Soviet Union and its successor states, providing analysis applied to other…

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Cold War [5 volumes]: A Student Encyclopedia

The most comprehensive and up-to-date student reference on the Cold War, offering expert coverage of all aspects of the conflict in a richly designed format, fully illustrated to give students…

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Weapons and Warfare [2 volumes]: From Ancient and Medieval Times to the 21st Century

This work details the creation and evolution of major weapons throughout human history, beginning with clubs through the hypersonic railgun, lasers, and other weapons under development today –

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My Six Years with Gorbachev

Anatoly C. Chernyaev

Drawing on his own diary, as well as secret documents and transcripts of high-level meetings, Anatoly Chernyaev recounts the drama that swept the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991. Chernyaev…

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The Fall of the First British Empire: Origins of the War of American Independence

David C. Hendrickson,Robert W. Tucker

This work explores how the United Kingdom fell in the early 1800s, which led to dissention and planted the seeds of the war of American independence.

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Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson

Robert W. Tucker (Professor of American Diplomacy, School of Advanced International Studies, Professor of American Diplomacy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University),David C. Hendrickson (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado College)

Empire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America’s most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson…

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The West at War

Brings together scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time - the West’s increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less…

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