Coping with Korea (Coping with ...)

Steenson, Gary P.

Travel

Blackwell Publishing

Home of the Hyundai and site of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, this obscure, mountainous country divided by politics and ideology is on the verge of an explosion in tourism. This guide explains the customs of this most unfamiliar country. Anyone curious about such oddities as Kimchi and Bulgogi in the Land of the Morning Calm will find much useful and entertaining information here. Among the numerous topics considered in detail are the geography, currency, transportation, language, food and culture of South Korea. In addition, this invaluable resource provides a special section on the 1988 Summer Olympic Games and focuses particular attention upon social mores and other cultural proprieties, including the rituals of greeting and departure, and protocol in social situations. If you are concerned about whether you will have to remove your shoes upon entering your host's house or whether you can sing in public, let "Coping with Korea" assuage your concerns. The book is aimed at tourists and business visitors to Kore. the Olympics in 1988.

Coping With Korea

Asia

Blackwell Pub.

The first major study of Karl Kautsky, considered the most influential Marxian theoretician in the world, from 1895 to 1914. Outside of Friedrich Engels, Kautsky did more to popularize Marism than any other person. An entire generation of Marxists, including Lenin and Trotsky, learned the doctrine in large part from Kautsky.

Karl Kautsky, 1854-1938: Marxism in the classical years

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. University of Pittsburgh Press

<p>The 30 years preceding World War I were critical for the development of European workers' parties. When Marx died in 1883, only Germany had a viable working-class movement; by 1914 most central and western European countries had large and growing workers' parties with leaders committed both to what they understood as Marx's political ideas and to full participation in respresentative politics. In this study of pre-1914 European socialist parties, Gary Steenson offers new interpretations of the history and nature of the working-class socialist movements in Germany, France, Austria and Italy. Relying on the correspondence between Friedrich Engels and party leaders, he analyzes Engels' view of European politics and his strategic counsel. A concluding chapter determines the relative "Marxness" of each party during this period. Instead of emphasizing theoretical works that were little known at the time, Steenson derives the standards for Marxian political orthodoxy from party publications a</p>

After Marx, Before Lenin: Marxism and Socialist Working-Class Parties in Europe, 1884-1914

Business & Money

Economics

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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