The November 8th Publishing House

One hundred and nine years ago, the Great October Socialist Revolution opened the path for the continuous development of Russian and world society by removing the obsolescent forces blocking its development. It marked the beginning of the new and the start of the end of the old.

Introducing RADIO NEW ALBANIA, showcasing the sounds of the years of people's state power in their full artistic beauty...

NEW: A long overdue and awaited publication translated from Albanian to English - the New Albania's textbook on the Political Economy of Socialism. As people around the world work out what a national economy is and should be, it serves as a modest contribution to the discussion.

Today, 118 years ago, Enver Hoxha was born. A staunch patriot with a fiery Albanian heart, an erudite and Marxist thinker, a general and man of action, a statesman and tactician, a leader and teacher, for 45 years he headed efforts for a free, prosperious, new Albania.

NEW: The Selected Works of Migjeni, one of the brightest men of letters in the interwar world who utilised critical realism to paint a stark picture of his beloved, backwards Albania, yet his optimism convinced him that, in time, they would sing "songs the free Illyrians sang."

NEW: Arben Puto's "From the Annals of British Diplomacy," analysing the stance of Great Britain's diplomacy towards Albania during the Second World War, from Ahmet Zogu's flight, to the Legaliteti and Balli Kombëtar, and its attempts to control the National Liberation Movement.

NEW: Pipi Mitrojorgji's "The First Railway," a diary from the 1947 construction of Albania's Durrës-Peqin railway, merely forty-three kilometres but representing the emergence of the country into the light, filled with enthusiasm, socialist emulation and everyday heroism.