This is the first book length study of the sorely neglected side of Lenin's politics—his use of the electoral arena to shape a revolution. This aspect of Leninist politics was intimately linked to his
Can electoral and parliamentary arenas be used toward revolutionary ends? This is precisely the question that held Lenin's attention from 1905 to 1917, leading him to conclude that they could—and wou
Islam and Politics in East Africa was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered fro
While Alexis de Tocqueville described America as the 'absolute democracy,' Karl Marx saw the nation as a 'defiled republic' so long as it permitted the enslavement of blacks. In this insightful politi
Presents the first major study of Marx and Engels in two decades and the only study since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the recognized crisis of global capitalism.
The issue of slavery and racial oppression were of marginal concern to Tocqueville's Democracy in America , argues Nimtz (political science, U. of Minnesota), much to that revered work's detriment. M
Challenging the notion that the works of Marx and Engels were, at their base, fundamentally anti-democratic, Nimtz (political science, U. of Minnesota) chronologically follows the political careers of
