Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. By Carole Boyce Davies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxviii, 311 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4096-6. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4116-1.)

2008 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 917-917
Author(s):  
M. B. Mollin
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Duke University

The Beseda Circle, 1899-1905

Slavic Review ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Emmons
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Constitution ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
Almost All

Constitutions in almost all states have been introduced at various times, in bits and pieces and for the most part amidst violent political upheavals. The Russian Constitution will owe its inception not to the inflaming of passions and extremity of circumstance, but to the virtuous inspiration of the Supreme Authority, which, in ordering the political life of its people, is fully capable of endowing it with proper forms.M. M.SperanskyEvery attempt to introduce West European parliamentary forms of government into Russia is doomed to failure. If the tsarist regime is overthrown, its place will be taken by pure undisguised communism, the communism of Mr. Karl Marx who has just died in London and whose theories I have studied with attention and interest.D. A.TolstoyThe constitutional-reform movement in Russia passed through three stages of institutional development before its ultimate demise in revolution and civil war. In the first, occupying about a decade between the mid-1850s and the mid-1860s, the reform movement was concentrated in the corporate institutions of the landed gentry.

Women in Power and Decision making Positions : Conditions and Restraints

1970 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Azza Charara Baydoun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Slow Progress

Women today are considered to be outside the political and administrative power structures and their participation in the decision-making process is non-existent. As far as their participation in the political life is concerned they are still on the margins. The existence of patriarchal society in Lebanon as well as the absence of governmental policies and procedures that aim at helping women and enhancing their political participation has made it very difficult for women to be accepted as leaders and to be granted votes in elections (UNIFEM, 2002).This above quote is taken from a report that was prepared to assess the progress made regarding the status of Lebanese women both on the social and governmental levels in light of the Beijing Platform for Action – the name given to the provisions of the Fourth Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. The above quote describes the slow progress achieved by Lebanese women in view of the ambitious goal that requires that the proportion of women occupying administrative or political positions in Lebanon should reach 30 percent of thetotal by the year 2005!

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