25 must-read nonfiction books like The First Time In History: Two Years Of Russia's New Life: August 1921 To December 1923 by Anna Louise Strong

The First Time In History: Two Years Of Russia's New Life: August 1921 To December 1923

By: Anna Louise Strong

4.07

Format: None pages, Nook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge…

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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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
"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. 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
  • nonfiction
"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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4. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Ten Days that Shook the World

By: John Reed

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more

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  • history
  • russia
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9. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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10. 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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"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

11. The Foundations of Leninism

By: Joseph Stalin

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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13. To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

By: Michael Parenti

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugosla… read more

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14. On Practice

By: Mao Zedong

4.42

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Mao's classic 1937 essay on philosophy. read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement

By: Anuradha Ghandy

4.41

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Ghandy's vital text that outlines the history of the world's feminist movements and critiques them … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

16. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal by Pao-Yu Ching

17. From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal

By: Pao-Yu Ching

4.26

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

How can a country that developed the most advanced socialist society in the history of the world ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We have the choice of either burying our heads in the sand and accepting the verdict of leading capitalist propaganda that socialism has failed and capitalism has won, thus signaling the end of histo…"

-Pao-Yu Ching, From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal

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18. The German Communist Resistance

By: T. Derbent

4.36

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

When the KPD was banned, its paramilitary formations numbered over 100,000 members. The Antifa Leag… read more

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19. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

By: Mao Zedong

3.45

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zed… read more

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"An army of the people is invincible!"

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"Todo o conhecimento genuíno tem origem na experiência direta."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"A política é uma guerra sem derramamento de sangue, e a guerra uma política com derramamento de sangue."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

"A crítica deve fazer-se a tempo; não há que se deixar levar pelo mau costume de criticar só depois de consumados os fatos."

-Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: Mao’s Little Red Book Original Version

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20. Oppose Book Worship

By: Mao Zedong

4.19

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science by Friedrich Engels

21. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

By: Friedrich Engels

4.29

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

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22. Combat Liberalism

By: Mao Zedong

4.14

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

23. Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine

By: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

4.58

Format: 75 pages, ebook

This classic small book provides the outline of the strategy and overall vision of the Popular Fron… read more

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Cover of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton

24. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

By: Orisanmi Burton

4.81

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more

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25. The Mass Strike

By: Rosa Luxemburg

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

La revolución rusa, que tiene sus comienzos en enero de 1905, sorprende a Rosa Luxemburgo en Aleman… read more

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"what is the actual role of Anarchism in the Russian revolution? It has become the sign of the common thief and plunderer; a large proportion of the innumerable thefts and acts of plunder of private p…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Mass Strike

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26. Marxism-Leninism-Maoism - Basic Course

By: People's March

3.84

Format: 199 pages, None

None read more

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27. The First Time In History: Two Years Of Russia's New Life: August 1921 To December 1923

By: Anna Louise Strong

4.07

Format: None pages, Nook

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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28. Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer

By: Jose Maria Sison

4.37

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer was written by Jose Maria Sison from his prison cell… read more

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Cover of Writings on Organization and Mass Line (Colorful Classics, #25) by Mao Zedong

29. Writings on Organization and Mass Line (Colorful Classics, #25)

By: Mao Zedong

4.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

This short anthology comprises Mao’s key essays on organization and mass line, including “On Correc… read more

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Cover of Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism by Armando Liwanag

30. Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism

By: Armando Liwanag

4.19

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism by Chairman Armando Liwanag of the Communist Party o… read more

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31. Where Do Corect Ideas Come From?

By: Mao Zedong

4.22

Format: None pages, None

A critical essay in the works of Mao Tse-Tung read more

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24 must-read history books like The First Time In History: Two Years Of Russia's New Life: August 1921 To December 1923 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

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Joseph Stalin

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Critique of the Gotha Program

Karl Marx

4.36

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The Communist Necessity

J. Moufawad-Paul

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

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Friedrich Engels

4.06

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