Communism Socialism category: 1567 books
K Blows Top
A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted-a surreal extravaganza,” as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home...
by Robert E. Stripling
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
First published in 1949, this is an account of communist subversion in America as disclosed by investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-48, written by the Committee’s chief investigator, Robert E. Stripling.
by Gilles Dauvé, François Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The original essays included here were first written between 1969 and 1972 by people involved in the most radical aspects of the French general strike and circulated among left communist and worker circles. Over the years these three essays have been published separately in various languages and printed...
Valley of Death
The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would...
Escape from North Korea
The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
From the world’s most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia...
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...
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...