Communism category: 1567 books
The Great 20th-Century Event that Changed the World:Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and the Russian Revolution of November 7-8, 1917.
SHORT STORY # 28. Nonfiction series #1 -- # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The greatest event of the 20th century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917.
The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2
systems: capitalism and socialism.
Lenin’s socialism and the Russian Revolution’s many decrees...
by Richard Pipes
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Pipes is a widely recognized authority on Russia and is currently Baird professor of History at Harvard University. This is the final volume in his magisterial history of the Russian Revolution, covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924.
Stalin's Loyal Executioner
People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.
by Geoffrey Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalins faithful servant, a dogmatic communist, and a conservative hard-liner of little or no imagination.Molotov was, indeed, Stalins right-hand man; from the 1920s to the early 1950s the two men presided over a brutal, authoritarian...
Joseph Stalin
Images of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Joseph Stalin was a monster. He sacrificed his friends and allies in pursuit of power, murdered thousands with sadistic brutality to maintain it and callously obliterated millions more of his own people over a quarter century of his leadership. Yet almost as frightening as the horrendous crimes he...
The Incredible Tito
Man of the Hour
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Fast’s fascinating biography of Joseph Broz, known to the world as Tito, including his rise to power and his remarkable stand against fascism
The world was mired in the Second World War when Howard Fast wrote The Incredible Tito. Upon the book’s publication in 1944, there was still no united...
Mao Zedong
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
“Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune)
From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of...
by Nadezhda K. Krupskaya
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Written by Lenin’s wife and life companion, Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, and translated by Eric Verney from the second Russian edition published at Moscow, 1930, this is Part I of an intimate account of the life of Lenin and his wife, covering the years 1893-1907.
Although ostensibly written as...
Deng Xiaoping
A Revolutionary Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms....
Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed....
The Naked God
The Writer and the Communist Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Fast’s book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidity
The Naked God is Howard Fast’s public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the...
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx explains how, under capitalism, people rely on labor to live. In the past people could rely on Nature itself for their natural needs; in modern society, if one wants to eat, one must work: it is only through money that one may survive. Thus,...
The Next Revolution
Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left politics based on popular assemblies, influencing a wide...
by Lenny Flank
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The basic texts of Marxist socialism. Preface gives an easy-to-understand introduction to Marxist philosophy.