Gautam Kukreja

Review: The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy

During the worldwide fall of Communism, beginning in the 1980s, the West was gripped by the rise of political dominance…

3 weeks ago

Book Review: E.H. Carr’s A History of Soviet Russia: Volume 1: The Bolshevik Revolution

Edward Hallett Carr is perhaps the greatest and most authentic authority when it comes to the History of the USSR.…

4 weeks ago

Political Economy of Pakistan’s Military

“The Army is the nation and the nation is with the Army”, COAS General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said on Martyr’s…

1 month ago

Book Review– The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Few scholarly works have modest beginnings but have become one of the most renowned seminal works. An epitome of it…

1 month ago

The Disintegration of the USSR: the Factors

Few people in the USSR saw the end of the Cold War as a setback for the Soviet Union and…

1 month ago

Soviet Economy after the October Revolution

In 1921, Vladimir Lenin initiated a new economic agenda for the Soviet Union, which had been seriously harmed by years…

2 months ago

Caste, Class, Varna and Race: Social and Political and Cultural Discourses

Caste has a significance: that is its social morphology. The several Backward Classes Commissions established in independent India have noted…

2 months ago

The Opposition to Khomeini’s Velayat-e-Faqih

In his book Kashf al-Asrar (1941), Ayatollah Khomeini acknowledged, “The wilayah of the mujtahid ... has been the subject of…

2 months ago

New Wars and Old Wars: A Book Review

New Wars and Old Wars: Human history, it is said, is primarily about war. Whether or not everyone agrees with…

2 months ago