HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

History of Political Thought covers detailed study of Socialism and Democratic Socialism with all its forms such as Fabian Socialism and Symbilcalism. Communism based on Marxist thinking has been re-interperted, moulded and amended by Lenin and Stalin in Russia and by Mao-Tse-Tung in China. Ideas of these thinkers have been presented in this book in a very simple and lucid language. Impact of Anarchism, Fascism and Pluralism in Russia, Italy and Germany and Britain, including its colonial empire, has been very well explained.Opinions of modern thinkers like Harold Laski, G.D.H. Cole and Bertrand Russell about new political traditions in the West have also been given in brief.After Independence, due to great impact of Indian Political Thought all over the world including Indian Polity and its people, ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, Sarvoyadaya and of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru have been described in this book in a comprehensive manner.The book deals with conflicting political ideas but author has made an attempt to describe these ideas with objective outlook in easiest possible manner, in order to make it useful to students as well as to common reader.

Book Contents

1. Socialism 2. Democratic Socialism 3. Communism Lenin, Stalin, Krushchev and Mao 4. Anarchism 5. Fascism 6. Pluralism 7. Harold Laski, G.D.H. Cole and Bertrand Russell 8. New Political Traditions in the West 9. Gandhi, Sarvodya and Nehru 10. Democracy