Author: Peter Ranis

PETER RANIS is professor emeritus of political science at York College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of six books on the working class and on worker cooperatives in the political economy of Argentina, Latin America, and the United States. He is a member of the International Committee of the PSC/CUNY, the union of faculty and staff.

Latin America historian Greg Grandin, always aware of the subtexts of events and processes, combines a literary and cultural flair that makes America América: A New History of the New World both readable and enjoyable. His book is a carefully

Peter Ranis reviews Ilya Budraitskis’s book on the history of left dissidents in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.

Peter Ranis discusses repression, exploitation, and ecological devastation in China’s authoritarian capitalism.