B. T. Ranadive

B. T. Ranadive
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The first socialist state in history lasted only seventy years. This is a very small period of time in the scope of world history. Its achievements have been pilloried – its demise being the ...

Ronald L. Meek
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Tejaswini Niranjana
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Michael Hardt
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G.V. Plekhanov
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Roger Jeffery
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Dave Hill
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Maurice Cornforth
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Terry Eagleton
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Ernest Mandel
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Mathew John
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Kavita Krishnan
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Robert Biel
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Chaman Lal
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