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• Book Review: Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism | ACG
  11 December 2020

  Review by Anarchist Communist Group (ACG)
  November 23, 2020
  Darch, Colin. Nestor Makhno and rural anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921. Pluto Press.238 pages. £17.99
  I approached this book with some enthusiasm. A new book on the Makhnovist movement using sources previously unreferenced in the English language world. I was sorely disappointed. I should have read Darch’s doctoral thesis on Makhno, where his bias against Makhno and anarchism is immediately apparent. An example of that (…)

• Review of Lovejoy, Alice, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War | Joris Mercelis
  22 April

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  Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
  by Alice Lovejoy
  University of California Press
  2025. Illustrations. 256 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-40293-5
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  Reviewed by Joris Mercelis (Heinrich Heine University D

• Review of Pataguni’s Foreign Policy Decision Making In India | P.S. Jayaramu
  19 March, by P S Jayaramu

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  Foreign Policy Decision Making In India : A Political Psychological Perspective
  by S. S. Patagundi
  Rawat Publications
  2025, Pp 201, Price: Rs 1095
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  This above book by Dr. Patagundi, former Professor of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, is the product of his research as a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Sicial Science Research(ICSSR), New Delhi, a few years ago. The book is actually brought out by the (…)

• Review of Timothy Lorek’s Timothy, Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia | Javier Puente
  14 June 2024

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  Review by Javier Puente
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  Making the Green Revolution: Agriculture and Conflict in Colombia. Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges by Timothy Lorek
  University of North Carolina Press 2023. xxii + 317 pp (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-7382-0
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  In September 2016, Colombia’s government and the leadership of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) achieved the unthinkable. After a four-year series of conversations and negotiations, President Juan Manuel Santos (…)

• A Marvel that Indian Cities Once Were | M.R. Narayan Swamy 
  5 January 2024, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Indian Cities: Ancient and Medieval by Raghavan Srinivasan
  Hachette India Pages: xi + 180; Price: Rs 399 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9357312501 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9357312509 __0__
  It is a matter of immense pity that Indians do not build and maintain their cities the way their ancestors did during the Harappan Civilization.
  The baths in houses, public wells, bathing areas and high-quality drainage were among the most startling discoveries that archaeologists made when they began (…)

• Review of Davaram’s ’Munnar to Marina: The Journey’
  29 November 2024, by K S Subramanian

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  Munnar to Marina: The Journey
  By W I Davaram
  Notion Press, 2O24
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  reviewed by K. S. Subramanian
  This is a brilliant book by W I Davaram, IPS Retd., former Director General of Police, Tamilnadu. The book is in English (with a separate translation in Tamil). Along with a large number of photographs the book is fascinating and an enjoyable read. The book with 408 pages lacks an Index. The author

• Smith on Moseley, ’Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation’
  7 September 2024

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  Marx’s Theory of Value in Chapter 1 of Capital: A Critique of Heinrich’s Value-Form Interpretation
  by Fred Moseley
  Palgrave Macmillan 2023. xxix + 167 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-3-031-13209-4.
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  Reviewed by Jason E. Smith (Art Center College of Design)
  Marx and Method
  For the past few decades, Fred Moseley, a professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College until his recent retirement in 2016, has been a leading figure in (…)

• Carol Winkler Review of The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
  18 August 2023

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  Reviewed by Carol Winkler (Georgia State University)
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  The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community
  by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
  Columbia University Press
  2016. xix + 211 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17426-8
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  Neil Krishan Aggarwal’s The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate provides a much-needed, theoretically grounded analysis of the cultural and psychological dimensions of the discourse of the Taliban. His book (…)

• Henschel. Review of Rosamund Johnston’s, Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
  28 September 2024

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  Red Tape: Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
  by Rosamund Johnston
  Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe Series
  Stanford University Press
  2024. 308 pp.
  (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-3869-3
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  Reviewed by Frank Henschel (Kiel University)
  Communism on Air
  Rosamund Johnston

• Mark Hurst. Review of Martin, Barbara, Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union
  12 October 2024

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  Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union
  by Barbara Martin
  Academic Studies Press
  2023. 260 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 979-88-87191-81-2.
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  Reviewed by Mark Hurst (Lancaster University)
  During the twentieth century, opposition to the Soviet regime took a variety of shapes and sizes. In the latter years of the Cold War, the Western perception of the so-called Soviet dissident movement was dominated by two Nobel (…)