Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe consists of twenty papers written by Andrew Sherratt over the past quarter of a century.footnote ＊ Taken together, these articles represent a uniquely ...

In 1934 when Gaston Bachelard published his Nouvel Esprit Scientifiquefootnote 1 and Karl Popper’s Logik der Forschungfootnote 2 appeared few philosophers would have dissented from the view that ...

For the last 46 years the Communist Party has played a part in left-wing politics in Britain out of all proportion to its membership and electoral support. Other left-wing Socialist groups, ...

leonard schapiro’s recent book is the first general history of the Soviet Communist Party by a Western scholar, and it contains a great deal of information not previously available in English. It is ...

The birth of the women’s liberation movement was the result of a unique and sharply polarized political conjuncture, between the years 1968 and 1975, which had a radicalizing effect throughout the ...

Before discussing the new agricultural policy, there must be a brief account of politico-economic policy and development since 1954, since very little serious analytical material has appeared in the ...

The Soviet Union is going through its most radical transformation since the 1930s or, arguably (indeed, as argued by its leaders), since the 1917 Revolution. Many ‘impossibles’ become possible ...

Anything that was shown—American, Japanese, Hong Kong: whatever. By my teens there was a terrific range of films you could see in Taipei, because the Nationalist government set up a number of ...

Peking and Moscow.Klaus Mehnert. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 50s. Dr Mehnert enjoys a considerable reputation both in his native West Germany and in the United States, as an expert on Communist ...

Nazim Hikmet spent one third of his adult life fighting for a socialist revolution in his native Turkey, one third in jail and one third in exile. Now he is dead. Very few in Britain can have felt ...

If only the lords of Silicon Valley had read their Aftalion, who had compared the rhythm of investment to people stacking ...