6 Best soviet history books like Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 by Robert W. Thurston

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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…

If you liked the soviet history plot in Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 by Robert W. Thurston , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Another View of Stalin

By: Ludo Martens

4.02

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

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  • russia
  • history
  • soviet history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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"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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4. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

By: Henry Hazlitt

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more

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  • politics
  • 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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  • politics
  • 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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"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. 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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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. Fraud, Famine, And Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth From Hitler To Harvard

By: None

0.00

Format: None pages,

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9. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat

By: J. Sakai

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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10. 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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"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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11. 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
  • history
  • 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

12. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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13. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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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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  • politics
  • history
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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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  • russia
  • history
  • soviet history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

16. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution

By: Robert C. Allen

4.15

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economi… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • soviet history
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  • nonfiction

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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  • soviet history
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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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  • russia
  • history
  • soviet history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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20. 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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21. History of the Three Internationals

By: William Z. Foster

4.47

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

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4.24

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