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The book-publishing arm of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review (founded 1949). It began in 1952 with I. F. Stone's The Hidden History of the Korean War, which Stone could not place with another publisher. Its list has been central to Marxist political economy, dependency and world-systems theory, and labour studies, and it remains active.

Years
1952–present
Location
New York, United States
Affiliation
Monthly Review Foundation; founded by Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy
Languages
English
Website
https://monthlyreview.org/press/
Authority records
Wikidata
Sources
Monthly Review Press — Our Story; Wikipedia — Monthly Review

Backlist

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Titles of Monthly Review Press by year: 1,572 dated titles, 1952–2026, most in 1972 (60); 18 undated. Lines mark founded 1952.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1950s48
1960s234
1970s415
1980s215
1990s178
2000s169
2010s209
2020s104
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1952Monthly Review 1952 - 1953: Vol 4 Table of ContentsFree—English
1952Principals of Communism✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- No. 4
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1952Principles of CommunismFree
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- No.4
Friedrich Engels & Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish, German
1952The Hidden History of the Korean War✓I. F. StoneEnglish
1953Great Tradition in English Lit Vol 2Annette T. RubinsteinEnglish
1953Monthly Review 1953 - 1954: Vol 5 Table of ContentsFree—English
1953Red Baiting and Civil Liberties✓ — Two Notable Articles from Monthly Review
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- No. 5
Florence LuscombEnglish
1953The ABC of Socialism✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Leo HubermanEnglish
1953The Present as History✓ — Essays and Reviews on Capitalism and Socialism
Modern Reader; 140
Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1953The Treason of the Senate✓FreeDavid Graham PhillipsEnglish
1953-01-01The Truman Era✓I. F. StoneEnglish
1953-01-01The World the Dollar Built✓FreeGuenther SteinEnglish
1954Monthly Review 1954 - 1956: Vol 6 Table of ContentsFree—English
1954The Roots and Prospects of McCarthyism✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- No. 8
Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1955Monthly Review 1955 - 1956: Vol 7 Table of ContentsFree—English
1955The Empire of Oil✓FreeHarvey O'ConnorEnglish
1955Thinkers and Treasurers✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- No.10
Barrows DunhamEnglish
1956Marxian Socialism✓Free — Power Elite or Ruling Class?
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- 13
Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1956On Segregation✓ — The Crisis in Race Relation; Two Nations, White and Black
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 11
Leo Huberman & Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1956Studies in Labor TheoryRonald L. MeekNot recorded
1956Studies in the Labor Theory of Value✓Ronald L. MeekEnglish
1956The Great Road✓Free — The Life and Times of Chu TehAgnes SmedleyEnglish
1956The Theory of Capitalist Development✓Free — Principles of Marxian Political EconomyPaul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1956-01-01Was Justice Done?✓Free — The Rosenberg-Sobell CaseMalcolm SharpEnglish
1956Was Justice Done? The Rosenberg-Sobell Case. With an Introd. By Harold C. Urey✓FreeMalcolm SharpEnglish
1956What You Should Know About Suez✓Paul M. SweezyEnglish
1957-01-01American Radicals✓ — Some Problems and PersonalitiesHarvey GoldbergEnglish
1957Monthly Review 1957 - 1958: Vol 9 Table of ContentsFree—English
1957Political Econ of Growth✓Paul A. BaranEnglish
1957-01-01The Chinese Economy✓Solomon AdlerEnglish
1957The Political Economy of Growth✓Paul A. BaranEnglish
1958-01-01A New Birth of Freedom?✓ — World Communism After StalinKonni ZilliacusEnglish
1958Case Studies on the Labor Process✓Andrew S. ZimbalistEnglish
1958Conviction✓Norman Ian MacKenzieEnglish
1958Monthly Review 1958 - 1959: Vol 10 Table of ContentsFree—English
1958-01-01Socialists Around the World✓FreeHelen NearingEnglish
1958The South African Treason Trial✓Lionel FormanEnglish
1958-01-01The Wall Between✓Free
Prometheus Books
Anne BradenEnglish
1958World Without War✓FreeJ. D. BernalEnglish
1959A Visit to Soviet Science✓Free
2 Prometheus Books
Stefan HeymEnglish
1959American Labor in Midpassage✓Bert CochranEnglish
1959-01-01Caste, Class, & Race✓Free — A Study in Social DynamicsOliver Cromwell CoxEnglish
1959Caste, Class, and Race✓Free — A Study in Social Dynamics
Modern Reader Paperbacks
Oliver Cromwell CoxEnglish
1959China Shakes the World Again✓Charles BettelheimEnglish
1959Conviction✓Norman Ian MacKenzieEnglish
1959-01-01The Alienation of Modern Man✓ — An Interpretation Based on Marx and TönniesFritz PappenheimEnglish
1959The Jazz Scene✓E. J. HobsbawmEnglish
1959World Without War✓John D. BernalEnglish
1960-01-01An Essay on Economic Growth and Planning✓Maurice Herbert DobbEnglish
1960Crossing the Line✓Free — Being the Second Volume of AutobiographyClaud CockburnEnglish
1960Cuba✓Free — Anatomy of a Revolution
Monthly Review; 12,3/4
Leo HubermanEnglish
1960Marxism and Psychoanalysis✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Paul BaranEnglish
1960Monthly Review 1960 - 1961: Vol 12 Table of ContentsFree—English
1960The Jazz Scene✓
Roots of Jazz
E. J. HobsbawmEnglish
1960The Political Economy of Growth✓FreePaul A. BaranEnglish
1960The Theory of U. S. Foreign Policy✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1960Thinkers and Treasurers✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Barrows DunhamEnglish
1960Waste in American Medicine✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; No. 16
Committee of physiciansEnglish
1960Waste in American Medicine a Committee of Physicians✓—English
1960We, the People✓FreeLeo HubermanEnglish
1961Burning Conscience✓ — The Case of the Hiroshima Pilot, Claude Eatherly, Told in His Letters to Gunther Anders. With a Postscript for American Readers by Anders. Pref. By Bertrand Russell. Foreword by Robert JungkClaude EatherlyEnglish
1961BURNING CONSCIENCE the Case of the Hiroshima Pilot, Claude Eatherly, Told in His Letters to Gunther Anders, with a Postscript for American Readers by AndersBertand Russell & Robert JungkEnglish
1961-01-01Cuba✓Free — Anatomy of a RevolutionLeo HubermanEnglish
1961From Yalta to Disarmament✓ — Cold War DebateJoseph P. MorrayEnglish
1961Guerrilla WarfareCHe GuevaraEnglish
1961In Place of Fear. With an Introd. By Jennie LeeAneurin BevanEnglish
1961Man's Worldly Goods✓Free — The Story of the Wealth of NationsLeo HubermanEnglish
1961Monthly Review 1961 - 1962: Vol 13 Table of ContentsFree—English
1961North from Mexico✓ — The Spanish-Speaking People of the United StatesCarey McWilliamsEnglish
1961Reflections on the Cuban Revolution✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Paul BaranEnglish
1961Socialism Is the Only Answer✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 3
Leo Huberman & Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1961-01-01William Morris✓Free — Romantic to RevolutionaryE. P. ThompsonEnglish
1962Burning Conscience✓ — The Case of the Hiroshima Pilot, Claude EatherlyClaude EatherlyEnglish
1962Burning Conscience✓ — The case of the Hiroshima pilot, Claude Eatherly, told in his letters to Gunther AndersClaude EatherlyGerman
1962Capitalism Yesterday & Today✓Maurice DobbEnglish
1962Capitalism Yesterday and Today✓Maurice Herbert DobbEnglish
1962Education and the Working Class✓ — Some General Themes Raised by a Study of 88 Working-Class Children in a Northern Industrial CityBrian JacksonEnglish
1962Marx Economic TheoryMandelEnglish
1962Monthly Review 1962 - 1963: Vol 14 Table of ContentsFree—English
1962Problems of Disarmament✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Hans A. BetheEnglish
1962Problems of Disarmament, by Hans a. Bethe, and Others—English
1962Report to the Stockholders & Other Poems, 1932-1962John BeecherEnglish
1962The Empire of Oil✓
Modern Reader; 132
Harvey O'ConnorEnglish
1962The Pen & the Sword✓Michael FootEnglish
1962The Political Economy of Growth✓Free — Foreword to 1962 PrintingPaul A. BaranEnglish
1962The Present as History✓ — Essays and Reviews on Capitalism and SocialismPaul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1962The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists✓FreeRobert TressellEnglish
1962The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, by Robert Tressell, PseudRobert TressellEnglish
1962The Second Revolution in Cuba✓Joseph P. MorrayEnglish
1962The United States, Cuba, and Castro✓ — An Essay on the Dynamics of Revolution and the Dissolution of EmpireWilliam Appleman WilliamsEnglish
1962View from the West✓ — Being the Third Volume of AutobiographyClaud CockburnEnglish
1962Wellington Road✓Margaret LassellEnglish
1962William Morris✓Free — Romantic to RevolutionaryE. P. ThompsonEnglish
1962-01-01World Crisis in Oil✓FreeHarvey O'ConnorEnglish
1963A Philosophy of Man✓ — [Essays]Adam SchaffEnglish
1963A Philosophy of Man; [Essays]✓Adam SchaffEnglish
1963British Guiana✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Ved Prakash VatukEnglish
1963-01-01Economic Development, Planning, and International Cooperation✓ — Three Lectures
Monthly Review Press Pamphlet Series, No. 20
Oskar LangeEnglish
1963Explosion over Latin America: The Man at the Door with the Gun✓Cedric BelfrageEnglish
1963Latin America and the Alliance for Progress✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Alonso AguilarEnglish
1963Marxian Socialism✓Free — Power Elite or Ruling Class?
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 13
Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1963Monthly Review 1963 - 1964: Vol 15 Table of ContentsFree—English
1963Politics and Law in South Africa✓ — Essays on Race RelationsJulius LewinEnglish
1963Principles of Communism✓Free
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 4
Friedrich EngelsEnglish
1963Puerto Rico✓Free — Freedom and Power in the CaribbeanGordon K. LewisEnglish
1963Soviet Education Today✓Deana LevinEnglish
1963The American Revolution✓ — Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook
Modern Reader Paperbacks
James BoggsEnglish
1963The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen✓FreeA. L. MortonEnglish
1963The Man at the Door with the Gun✓FreeCedric BelfrageEnglish
1963The Man at the Door with the Gun. Cedric Belfrage✓FreeCedric BelfrageEnglish
1963The Menace of the Miracle✓ — Germany from Hitler to AdenauerHeinz AboschEnglish
1963The split in the capitalist world, socialist world✓
Monthly review pamphlet series; 22
Paul Marlor Sweezy & Leo HubermanGerman
1963The Split in the: Capitalist World✓ — Socialist World
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Monthly review & An independent socialist magazineEnglish
1963The War in Vietnam✓Free
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Hugh DeaneEnglish
1963Three Tactics✓Free — The Background in MarxStanley Williams MooreEnglish
1963Waste — An Eye-Witness Report on Some Aspects of Waste in Western Sicily. Translated from the Italian by R. MunroeDanilo DolciEnglish
1963Whither Latin America?✓Monthly Review (New York) & Carlos FuentesEnglish
1963Why Socialism?✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 1
Albert EinsteinEnglish
1963Wither Latin America?✓Carlos FuentesEnglish
1964Capitalism as a System✓
Modern Reader; 131
Oliver Cromwell CoxEnglish
1964China Triumphs✓Julio Alvarez del VayoEnglish
1964Consciencism✓ — Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonizaton and Development with Particular Reference to the African RevolutionKwame NkrumahEnglish
1964-01-01In Place of Fear✓FreeAneurin BevanEnglish
1964In Place of Fear. With an Introd. By Jennie LeeAneurin BevanEnglish
1964-01-01Inside the Cuban Revolution✓Adolfo GillyEnglish
1964Inside the Cuban Revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Felix Gutierrez✓Adolfo GillyEnglish
1964Marxism and Moral and Concepts✓William AshEnglish
1964-01-01Marxism and Moral Concepts✓William AshEnglish
1964Marxism and Moral Concepts William Ash✓William Franklin AshEnglish
1964Marxism of Our Time✓ — Or, the Contradictions of SocialismGilles MartinetEnglish
1964Monthly Review 1964 - 1965: Vol 16 Table of ContentsFree—English
1964-01-01Notes from China✓Joan RobinsonEnglish
1964-01-01Parliamentary Socialism✓ — A Study in the Politics of LabourRalph MilibandEnglish
1964Revolution in Seattle✓ — A MemoirHarvey O'ConnorEnglish
1964The Accumulation of capital✓FreeRosa Luxemburg & Agnes SchwarzschildGerman
1964The Alienation of Modern Man✓ — An Interpretation Based on Marx and TönniesFritz PappenheimEnglish
1964The communist Manifesto✓FreeKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels & Paul Marlor SweezyGerman
1964The Communist Manifesto✓Free
Modern Reader; 6
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Paul Marlor Sweezy & Leo HubermanEnglish
1964The Communist Manifesto. Principles of Communism. the Communist Manifesto After 100 Years✓Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Paul Marlor Sweezy & Leo HubermanNot recorded
1964-01-01The Ordeal of British Guiana✓Philip RenoEnglish
1964The Socialist Register✓ — The Intellectual Lodestone for the International Left Since 1964Ralph MilibandEnglish
1964The Socialist Register 1964✓ — Ed. by Ralph MilibandRalph MilibandEnglish
1964-01-01The Theory of Capitalist Development✓Free — Principles of Marxian Political EconomyPaul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1964-01-01Waste✓ — An Eye-Witness Report on Some Aspects of Waste in Western SicilyDanilo DolciEnglish
1964We, the People✓Free — Rev. Ed. with Illus. By Thomas H. BentonLeo HubermanEnglish
1964-01-01William Morris, the Man and the Myth✓FreeRobert Page ArnotEnglish
1965-01-01A New World in the Making✓Danilo DolciEnglish
1965-01-01Consciencism✓ — Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African RevolutionKwame NkrumahEnglish
1965Lands AliveRené DumontEnglish
1965Lands Alive (Terres Vivantes)✓René DumontEnglish
1965Monthly Review 1965 - 1966: Vol 17 Table of ContentsFree—English
1965Paul a. Baran✓ — (1910 - 1965); a Collective PortraitPaul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1965-01-01Paul a. Baran, 1910-1964✓ — A Collective Portrait
Monthly Review; 16, 11
Paul Marlor SweezyEnglish
1965-01-01Studies in a Dying Colonialism✓ — With an Introd. By Adolfo GillyFrantz FanonEnglish
1965The a B C of Socialism✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 7
Leo Huberman & Sybil H. MayEnglish
1965The Timely Rain✓ — Travels in New TibetG. Stuart GelderEnglish
1965-01-01The Timely Rain, Travels in New Tibet, Foreword by Edgar SnowStuart & Roma GelderNot recorded
1966-01-01Dollar Diplomacy✓Free — A Study in American Imperialism
Socialist Classics Series -- No. 1
Scott NearingEnglish
1966Dollar Diplomacy. A Study in American Imperialism by Scott Nearing and Joseph Freeman✓
S; 1
Scott Nearing & Joseph FreemanEnglish
1966Economic Aspects of US Imperialism✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- No.27
Harry MagdoffEnglish
1966-01-01Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History✓Free
Socialist Classics Series
Antonio LabriolaEnglish
1966Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History. Translated by Charles H. Kerr✓Antonio LabriolaEnglish
1966Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History... Transl✓
S; 2
Antonio LabriolaEnglish
1966Fanshen✓Free — A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese VillageWilliam HintonEnglish
1966Freedom Under Capitalism and Socialism✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series -- No. 26
Leo HubermanEnglish
1966-01-01Ghana✓ — End of an IllusionRobert Beck FitchEnglish
1966Lands Alive (Terres Vivantes)✓René DumontEnglish
1966-01-01Mau Mau from Within✓ — Autobiography and Analysis of Kenya's Peasant RevoltDon BarnettEnglish
1966Merrie England✓Free
Classics of Radical Thought
Robert BlatchfordEnglish
1966Monopoly Capital✓ — An Essay on the American Economic and Social OrderPaul A. Baran & Paul M. SweezyEnglish
1966Monthly Review 1966 - 1967: Vol 18 Table of ContentsFree—English
1966News from Nowhere✓Free — Or, an Epoch of Rest; Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance
Classics of Radical Thought
William MorrisEnglish
1966The Commitment of the Intellectual✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 25
Paul A. BaranEnglish
1966The Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series; 27
Harry MagdoffEnglish
1966The Labor Spy Racket✓Free
S
Leo HubermanEnglish
1966-01-01The Road to Spain✓ — A NovelI. V. MorrisEnglish
1966The Timely Rain✓ — Travels in New TibetG. Stuart Gelder, Roma Gelder & Edgar SnowEnglish
196750 Years of Soviet Power✓Leo HubermanEnglish
1967Alienation in American Society✓
Monthly Review Pamphlet Series
Fritz PappenheimEnglish
1967Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America✓ — Historical Studies of Chile and BrazilAndre Gunder FrankEnglish
1967Fanshen✓Free — A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese VillageWilliam HintonEnglish
1967Guerrilla Warfare✓Che GuevaraEnglish
1967History of the Commune of 1871✓Free — Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx Aveling
Classics of Radical Thought Series No. 7
Prosper Olivier LissagarayEnglish
1967History of the Commune of 1871. Histoire de la Commune✓
C; 7
Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray & Eleanor Marx AvelingEnglish
1967-01-01Lands alive (Terres vivantes)ReneÌ DumontNot recorded
1967Monopoly Capital✓ — An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order Paul a. Baran and Paul M. SweezyPaul BaranEnglish
1967Monthly Review 1967 - 1968: Vol 19 Table of ContentsFree—English
1967Nationalism & Socialism✓ — Marxist and Labor Theories of Nationalism to 1917Horace Bancroft DavisEnglish
1967Nationalism and Socialism✓ — Marxist and Labor Theories of Nationalism to 1917Horace B. DavisEnglish
1967Nationalism and Socialism. Marxist and Labor Theories of Nationalism to 1967✓Horace Bancroft DavisEnglish
1967Revolution in the Revolution?✓ — Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin AmericaRégis Debray, Paul M. Sweezy & Leo HubermanEnglish
1967-01-01REVOLUTION IN THE REVOLUTION? Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America, Monthly Review, Vol. 19 No. 3Regis DeBrayNot recorded
1967Studies in Imperialism and the Cold War✓Bertrand Russell Centre for Social ResearchEnglish
1967The Alienation of Modern Man✓ — An Interpretation Based on Marx and TönniesFritz Pappenheim, Karl Marx & Ferdinand TönniesEnglish
1967The Decline of Socialism in America, 1912-1925✓James WeinsteinEnglish
1967The Labor Spy Racket✓Free
Classics of Radical Thought
Leo HubermanEnglish
1967The Pen & the Sword, a Year in the Life of Jonathan Swift✓Michael FootEnglish
1967The Political Economy of Growth✓FreePaul BaranEnglish
1967The Theoretical System of Karl Marx in the Light of Recent Criticism✓
Classics of Radical Thought Series; 6
Louis Boudianoff BoudinEnglish
1967The Theoretical System of Karl Marx in the Light of Recent Critism✓
Classics of Radical Thought Series; 6
Louis B. BoudinEnglish