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Title: Anti-capitalism in the Contemporary Age: The Case of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Creator: Maddens, William, Marien, Daniel, Jacques, Peter, Hamann, Kerstin, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the popularity of anti-capitalist parties around the world has fallen. However, there are still surviving anti-capitalist political parties that survived this fall. In examining these parties, it must be determined whether they have any fresh ideas to overcoming the challenges of transitioning to a socialist society, and if they have any answers to the problems that plagued past attempts at socialism. One such party that has enjoyed much...
Show moreSince the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the popularity of anti-capitalist parties around the world has fallen. However, there are still surviving anti-capitalist political parties that survived this fall. In examining these parties, it must be determined whether they have any fresh ideas to overcoming the challenges of transitioning to a socialist society, and if they have any answers to the problems that plagued past attempts at socialism. One such party that has enjoyed much electoral success is the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. When taking a look at party programs, platforms, and statements made by party leaders, it does not appear that this party has made any conscious goal to answer the questions posed by previous attempts to transition away from capitalism, nor do they appear to answer criticisms posed by scholars on the subject. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela seems to have failed to learn from history.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: CFE0007221, ucf:52218
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007221

Title: Soviet and Eastern European Reactions to American Exhibitions: Cultural Exchange and the Cold War, 1961-1976.
Creator: Miller, Jennie, Solonari, Vladimir, Lester, Connie, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: After the signing of the Cultural Exchange Agreement in 1958, exhibitions of culture and technology were exchanged between the Soviet Union and the United States. These exhibitions continued to be exchanged well into the 1980s. This paper focuses on comment books from seven of these cultural exchange exhibitions, five in the Soviet Union and two in Eastern Europe, in the years between 1961 and 1976. The public nature of the comment books and the way they were treated by visitors made them a...
Show moreAfter the signing of the Cultural Exchange Agreement in 1958, exhibitions of culture and technology were exchanged between the Soviet Union and the United States. These exhibitions continued to be exchanged well into the 1980s. This paper focuses on comment books from seven of these cultural exchange exhibitions, five in the Soviet Union and two in Eastern Europe, in the years between 1961 and 1976. The public nature of the comment books and the way they were treated by visitors made them a space for expressions of popular opinions over the issues of public policy and ideology. As such, they provide contemporary historians with a unique glimpse into the mindset of ordinary Soviet and Eastern European citizens during the Cold War. Based on the evidence from the comment books, and using methods elaborated by cultural anthropologists, this study shows that challenged by the display of apparent American superiority, most Soviet visitors preferred to fall back on the official ideology which claimed the moral superiority of their system. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Soviet citizens experienced an upswing in communist morale, expressed a desire to compete with America and a conviction that their system will ultimately prevail over capitalism. However, to what extent such declarations should be accepted at their face value as sincere expressions of Soviet citizens' deep-seated convictions and to what extent they should be seen as situational responses to the perceived humiliation at the hands of foreigners remains unclear.While most Soviet visitors were defensive, invested in their ideology, and competitive with America, their reactions were not monolithic. Some of them were clearly fascinated by American consumer products and expressed an envious yearning to get possession of them; others stressed their openness to cultural exchange. There were apparently sincere expressions of support to the policy of d(&)#233;tente, and of outrage over the Vietnam War. The Soviet visitors were aware of the unrest in American society caused by the civil rights movement, but were uninformed of the profound changes effected by this movement. Members of non-Russian minorities were interested in American ethnic diversity and sometimes implied their dislike of Moscow treatment of non-Russian nationalities. Eastern Europeans were less defensive and more open to American society and culture than the Soviets. Still, some of them also expressed pro-communist sentiments and national pride. There was one issue, however, on which the Soviets and Eastern were clearly more in tune with American popular culture than with their own governments: consumerism and the sentiment of entitlement to the high quality goods that Americans had access to while they did not. It was on this issue that the eastern bloc regimes were facing the greatest threat.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: CFE0004414, ucf:49384
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004414

Title: Program for survival: The Communist position on the Jewish question.
Creator: Bittelman, Alexander, Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: 1947
Identifier: 359817, CFDT359817, ucf:5212
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/359817

Title: Program for survival: The Communist position on the Jewish question.
Creator: Bittelman, Alexander, Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued: 1947
Identifier: 340745, CFDT340745, ucf:5183
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/340745

Title: Trotskyism and fascism: The anti-communist trial in Leipzig and the trial of the terrorists in Moscow.
Creator: Lang, P
Date Issued: 1937
Identifier: 2683628, CFDT2683628, ucf:5088
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683628

Title: Problems of the development of the U. S. S. R: Draft of the thesis of the International left opposition on the Russian question.
Creator: Trotsky, Leon, Lewitt, Morris, Shachtman, Max
Date Issued: 1931
Identifier: 367857, CFDT367857, ucf:5364
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367857

Title: Trotskyism and the Cuban revolution: An answer to Hoy.
Creator: Hansen, Joseph
Date Issued: 1962
Identifier: 370374, CFDT370374, ucf:5487
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370374

Title: The New phase in the Soviet Union: Report to the enlarged Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, February 25, 1930.
Creator: Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, Communist International Executive Committee
Date Issued: 1931
Identifier: 369422, CFDT369422, ucf:5445
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369422

Title: Supranational Organizations and Legitimacy: How the 2008 Global Economic Crisis has affected Public Opinion on Membership in the EU.
Creator: Vargas-Gonzalez, Briana, Kim, Myunghee, Kinsey, Barbara, Knuckey, Jonathan, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: This thesis examines public opinion towards membership in the EU, before and after the 2008 global economic crisis, in the newest member states to join the institution in 2004 (the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) and 2007 (Bulgaria and Romania). Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, socialist economies and communism maintained a citizenry that never experienced unemployment and that did not have a political...
Show moreThis thesis examines public opinion towards membership in the EU, before and after the 2008 global economic crisis, in the newest member states to join the institution in 2004 (the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) and 2007 (Bulgaria and Romania). Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989, socialist economies and communism maintained a citizenry that never experienced unemployment and that did not have a political voice. Because free-market economic policies and democratic values are new to these countries, public opinion regarding membership in a supranational organization that promotes and fosters these ideals is important to study. Data from the Eurobarometer Public Opinion Survey spring waves 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the World Bank, and Eurostat are used to measure multiple indicators of support for membership in the EU. Ordered logistic regression and means comparison analyses are employed to measure the effect of national-level economic prospects, economic winner/loser status, political party power, age, national identity, gender, and individual-level political ideology on public opinion toward membership. The results demonstrate that multiple indicators affect attitudes toward membership and that a negative shift in public opinion is apparent following the 2008 global economic crisis. At the individual-level of analysis, economic winner/loser status and national identity are significant in the predicted direction in all five models. Age is a significant indicator of support only in 2008, 2009, and 2010. At the aggregate-level, means comparison analyses and t-test statistics indicate that GDP annual growth rates have a positive effect on attitudes toward membership in the EU. As GDP annual growth increases, approval of membership in the EU increases. Eurozone membership and unemployment rates indicate varied support for membership in the EU, and the results of means comparison analyses of political party power at the national-level are inconclusive and exploratory in nature. With all findings considered, future studies can further examine the implications and long-term effects of global financial crises on public opinion towards membership in various international economic organizations.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: CFE0005435, ucf:50414
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005435

Title: The October revolution and the struggle for socialism.
Creator: Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich
Date Issued: 1932
Identifier: 671346, CFDT671346, ucf:5561
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671346

Title: Lenin and international labor unity.
Creator: Manuilskiy, Dmitriy Zakharevich
Date Issued: 1939
Identifier: 2100342, CFDT2100342, ucf:4910
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100342

Title: Lenin on Engels: On the 40th anniversary of Engel's death.
Creator: Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
Date Issued: 1935
Identifier: 2100242, CFDT2100242, ucf:4903
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100242

Title: Trotsky unmasked.
Creator: Fischer, Ernst
Date Issued: 1937
Identifier: 2683626, CFDT2683626, ucf:5087
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683626

Title: The Communist Party of the U.S.A: Its history, role and organization.
Creator: Browder, Earl Russell
Date Issued: 1941
Identifier: 2683378, CFDT2683378, ucf:5066
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683378

Title: Organizing the Party for victory over reaction: Report delivered at the National Conference of the Communist Party.
Creator: Parker, Alex
Date Issued: 1953
Identifier: 2683370, CFDT2683370, ucf:5062
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683370

Title: The Communist Party: Vanguard fighter for peace, democracy, security, socialism.
Creator: Perry, Pettis
Date Issued: 1953
Identifier: 2683234, CFDT2683234, ucf:5048
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683234

Title: Marxism versus social democracy: Address delivered at Plenum Executive Committee of the Young Communist International, December 1932.
Creator: Kun, Béla, Young Communist International
Date Issued: 1932
Identifier: 363264, CFDT363264, ucf:5289
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363264

Title: Marx and the East.
Creator: Safarov, Georgii Ivanovich
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: 367709, CFDT367709, ucf:5334
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/367709

Title: Stalin's speeches on the American Communist party.
Creator: Stalin, Joseph
Date Issued: 1931
Identifier: 2656170, CFDT2656170, ucf:4962
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2656170

Title: Defense policy in the Minneapolis trial. 1. A criticism by Grandizo Munis. 2. An answer by James P. Cannon.
Creator: Munis, Grandizo, Cannon, James Patrick
Date Issued: 1942
Identifier: 2683644, CFDT2683644, ucf:5096
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2683644

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