5 must-read soviet history books like The Stalin era by Anna Louise Strong

The Stalin era

By: Anna Louise Strong

4.18

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

I THINK THAT, looking back, men will call it "the Stalin Era.” Tens of millions of people built the…

"Russians had not grudged it when the world war turned both the Atlantic and Pacific into 'American lakes,' but when these same Americans, who had taken all the oceans and who were building bases on their islands and shores, called Russia greedy for taking back what she formerly owned, this ranked."

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

"Russians had not grudged it when the world war turned both the Atlantic and Pacific into 'American lakes,' but when these same Americans, who had taken all the oceans and who were building bases on their islands and shores, called Russia greedy for taking back what she formerly owned, this ranked."

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

"When the government evacuated citizens from areas invaded by Hitler, deliberate preference was given to Jews. The reason was sound; Jews would surely be killed by the Germans while Russians had a better chance to survive. This policy saved some two million Jews from death, but did not endear them to the Russians left behind."

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

"When the government evacuated citizens from areas invaded by Hitler, deliberate preference was given to Jews. The reason was sound; Jews would surely be killed by the Germans while Russians had a better chance to survive. This policy saved some two million Jews from death, but did not endear them to the Russians left behind."

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

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1. The Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • russia
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

By: Roger Keeran , Thomas Kenny

4.39

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet U… read more

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  • russia
  • soviet history
  • history
  • soviet union
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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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4. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

By: Joseph Stalin

3.91

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

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5. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
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6. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

7. On Contradiction

By: Mao Zedong

3.70

Format: 336 pages, paperback

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8. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
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  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

9. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis

By: None

3.00

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned… read more

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10. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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11. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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  • russia
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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

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12. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
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  • nonfiction
"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

13. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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15. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.39

Format: 353 pages, ebook

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more

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16. Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.

By: Joseph Stalin

3.70

Format: 71 pages, None

CONTENTS:Remarks On Economic Questions Connected With The November 1951 Discussion1. Character of E… read more

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17. Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela

By: George Ciccariello-Maher

4.01

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swep… read more

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18. The Stalin era

By: Anna Louise Strong

4.18

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

I THINK THAT, looking back, men will call it "the Stalin Era.” Tens of millions of people built the… read more

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"Russians had not grudged it when the world war turned both the Atlantic and Pacific into 'American lakes,' but when these same Americans, who had taken all the oceans and who were building bases on t…"

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

"When the government evacuated citizens from areas invaded by Hitler, deliberate preference was given to Jews. The reason was sound; Jews would surely be killed by the Germans while Russians had a bet…"

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

"Three times, in my years in the USSR , it was decided to limit the police powers and bring the State Security organs under law; each time the name changed but the powers resumed. Such a police become…"

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

"Month after month, the Russians, bearing the brunt of war, had waited. The Anglo-American landing did not come until June 6, 1944, when the Russian army had already liberated most of the USSR and was…"

-Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin era

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19. Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933–1938 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 43)

By: J. Arch Getty

3.94

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival an… read more

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20. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Marketization of the Chinese Economy

By: Harpal Brar

4.29

Format: 493 pages, Paperback

While applauding the rise of China, it is the author’s firm and considered view that, had its leade… read more

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21. Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941

By: Robert W. Thurston

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Terror, in the sense of mass, unjust arrests, characterized the USSR during the late 1930s. But, ar… read more

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18 must-read history books like The Stalin era by Anna Louise Strong

Transform Your Habits

The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Roger Keeran , Thomas Kenny

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Joseph Stalin

3.91

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Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

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