Awakening To Life
by Alexander Meshcheryakov.

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Awakening To Life: on the education of deaf-blind children in the Soviet Union, by Alexander Meshcheryakov.

Alexander Meshcheryakov (1923-1974) was a pupil of Professor Ivan Sokolyansky (1889-1960), who laid the foundations for the Soviet school of research into the subject of deaf-blindness. In this book, Meshcheryakov presents the summarised results of research and experiments carried out over a period of many years by Soviet psychologists and teachers engaged in the rearing and instruction of deaf-blind children. This serious social problem is discussed with all its psychological, educational and philosophical implications. Individual chapters are devoted to methods of establishing and realising the opportunities for developing the mental faculties inherent in deaf blind children.

While shaping and developing childrens' mental capacities when chances for communication were so severely restricted and the children concerned suffered from such serious sensory malfunctions, the author took a new look at theoretical problems of the emergence of the human mind. From its beginning, the School of Soviet psychology around Lev Vygotsky, Alexander Luria and Alexei Leontyev, had focused on education in general and education of the disabled in particular. These problems were the mahor challenges facing their country at the time, and also provided excellent material for developing their scientific ideas. Meshcheryakiov's development of Vygotsky's though is not only rich creative, but arguably can be seen as the most significant current of development of Vygotsky original work.

Meshcheryakov's warmth of heart and dedication will undoubtedly engage both specialists in this field and a much wider reading public.

Read the review of the MIAP edition of Awakening to Life on the website A World to Win.

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The Development of Mind by A. N. Leont'ev

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The Ideal in Human Activity by E. V. Ilyenkov

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Hegel's Logic: Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) by G.W.F. Hegel with a Foreword by Andy Blunden.  The final, 1830 version of the Hegel’s Logic, known as “The Shorter Logic,” is the most accessible and until recently, the most widely known of Hegel’s mature works, the work which has been most influential among Marxists. In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to “The Phenomenology” at the expense of his mature work. An understanding of “The Phenomenology” is important to understanding “The Logic,” but unlike “The Logic,” “The Phenomenology” was written in a hurry, contains much that is dated and is so poorly structured as to be almost unreadable. The 1830 Logic, which Hegel used in his lectures, is on the other hand, a reliable and structured presentation of Hegel’s mature views.

The Logic is provided with a new Foreword by Andy Blunden which approaches Hegel from a Marxist perspective and will help the novice appreciate Hegel’s importance. Hegel’s mode of writing is arcane, and even this most accessible of his works may be hard for the modern reader to make sense of. This Foreword goes a long way to unlocking the mysteries of Hegel’s writing for the uninitiated.

Few introductions to Hegel tackle the problem of what the subject matter of the Logic is. This is only made clear in his early works, and through an appreciation of his life and times. Andy draws on these aspects to introduce the reader to a powerful and systematic approach to problems which are as acute today as they were in 1830.

About the author:  Andy Blunden is a Melbourne, Australia-based writer, and a member of the Independent Social Research Network. Andy has been a Marxist since 1968 and began his study of Hegel in 1980, later becoming involved with Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. Andy initiated the annual Hegel Summer School in Melbourne and the Hegel-by-HyperText web site in 1998. The new Foreword to Hegel's Logic is based on a course given for the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy in 2008.

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The Great Anger, Ultra-Revolutionary Writing in France from the Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang: A collection of texts and essays edited and translated by Mitchell Abidor.  Published by Marxists Internet Archive Publications, 2009.

Published for the first time, Mitchell Abidor presents the key writings of a series of revolutionaries from the late 17th-early 18th century priest Jean Meslier and the Enlightenment radical Baron d’Holbach, to the leaders of the left wing of the Great French Revolution, Jean-Paul Marat, Jacques Hébert, Anacharsis Cloots, Jacques Roux, Gracchus Babeuf, and Sylvain Maréchal; and continuing with the tireless revolutionary Louis Auguste Blanqui and the voices of the Paris Commune. There follow the Propagandists of the Deed such as Ravachol and Emile Henry; the unclassifiable Zo d’Axa, and the uncompromising Albert Libertad. The collection continues with the philosophy of the individualist Georges Palante and concludes with Victor Serge, who wrote the last chapter of this school of anarchism and joined the Communist International. In the epilogue, Abidor reflects on the significance of the events of May 1968 in Paris and their connection to the tradition.

These texts, the words of the “men of action” themselves, Les Enragés, give a unique insight into the thinking of that social layer which cannot and will not reconcile itself to inequality, normality, conformity, and injustice. Men for whom the slogan “ni dieu ni maître,” neither God nor master, were words to live by.

About the author:  Mitchell Abidor is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn, New York. He has translated hundreds of texts from French, Spanish, Italian, Esperanto and Portugese into English, including works by writers as diverse as Jean-Paul Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, the Argentine poet Juan Gelman, and Maximilien Robespierre. Mitchell is also a regular columnist for the French magazine Le Grognard. He is married to the artist Joan Levinson.

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Red Youth: Young Heroes of the Great Patriotic War documents the extraordinary achievements of the young men and women of the Soviet Union’s anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War.  The first volume of this series features newly annotated editions of Soviet-era documents chronicling the life of legendary partisan fighter Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the first woman to receive the distinction of “Hero of the Soviet Union” during the Second World War.

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Mike Bessler was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees through Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He has worked in the social services field for over 15 years and in 2006, he received an award for his work with victims of domestic violence. Mike has been a volunteer and administrator for Marxists Internet Archive since 2001, creating and maintaining web archives for a diverse range of writers from the Marxist tradition, including Natalia Sedova Trotsky, Bhagat Singh, Zhou Enlai and Josip Broz Tito. In 2009, Mike founded Erythrós Press and Media. He currently lives in southwestern Ohio with his wife and two daughters.

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Marxists Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) is the most complete library of Marxism on the Internet.  For over a decade, MIA has provided workers, students and scholars with an indispensable collection of important and influential works on political economy, philosophy and history.  The MIA library includes archives in more than forty languages, featuring hundreds of authors and tens of thousands of documents.

The 2-disc DVD edition of MIA contains the entire contents of the MIA’s online library, except for some works which are not included due to copyright issues.  (Note:  The MIA’s exceptionally large Chinese language archive is also excluded from the DVD due to disk space limitations.)  In total, the DVD features over 8 GB of texts, images and audio files. 

As part of a special, limited-time promotion, MIA and Erythrós Press and Media are offering the 2009-2010 edition of the MIA’s 2-disc DVD set for only $10 with the purchase of the new MIA Publications book The Great Anger ($25 plus shipping).  All proceeds benefit Marxists Internet Archive.

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Celebrate the victory over  fascism every day!  A close approximation of the Soviet Banner of Victory (“Victory Banner # 5,”), the flag measures 3 feet by 5 feet and it is composed of 100% woven polyester (1 ply). The design is a single-side print with 98% show-thru of the reverse image on the back.  The flags are hemmed with double stitching and they feature grommets for hanging.

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The raising of the Victory Banner was commemorated in a legendary photo by Yevgeny Khaldei.  Victory Banner #5" which was one of several flags raised by Red Army soldiers over the Reichstag to signal the fall of Berlin during the final days of World War II (known in the former USSR as "The Great Patriotic War".)  An inscription is included on Victory Banner #5 by one of the military subdivision responsible for the capture of the Reichstag.  The Cyrillic writing reads, "150th Rifle, Order of Kutuzov 2nd class, 'Idritskaya' Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army, 1st Byelorussian Front."  The actual Victory Banner #5 is currently in a Russian museum.  The USSR commissioned the production of several replicas of the flag after World War II for use in the Victory Day parade held in Red Square every May 9th.  In 2007, a number of Russian "reformers" began a movement to remove the hammer and sickle from the Victory Banner.  Following a massive outcry from Russian war veterans, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law preserving the Soviet-era iconography as a national symbol of the victory over fascism.

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