Subject: History / Modern / 20th Century

Subject: History / Modern / 20th Century

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Karl Kautsky, 1854-1938

|9780822954439|Marxism in the Classical Years|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.| Gary P. Steenson|| Biography & Autobiography / General Biography & Autobiography / Political History / Modern / 20th Century

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Destined for the Stars

|9780822945567|Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier| Where did humanity get the idea that outer space is a frontier waiting to be explored? Destined for the Stars unravels the popularization of the science of space exploration in America between 1944 and 1955, arguing that the success of the US space program was due not to technological or economic superiority, but was sustained by a culture that had long believed it was called by God to settle new frontiers and prepare for the inevitable end of time and God’s final judgment. Religious forces, Newell finds, were in no small way responsible…

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