Here are some links to books that may be of interest

• An excellent source for many of the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels is the Marx to Mao Archive. In addition, this site contains biographical works, as well as writings by other people who have been important in the history of communism, such as V.I. Lenin.
• For an analysis of the legacy of Josef Stalin, we recommend Another view of Stalin.
  • You can download Another View of Stalin as PDF files here: part one; part two; part three.
• References: good articles to read about Stalin and the Purges
• Here is the text of Fatherland, by Karl Billinger -- how the German Communist Party failed to prepare for the Nazi assault on them, and how they reacted. You can get it either in HTML or as a MS Word 97 file.
• Fascism and Social Revolution, by R. Palme Dutt. Here it is in PDF format.
• Howard Selsam, What Is Philosophy?(1938). Useful, short beginning work on Dialectical Materialism. PDF file.
• Cecilia Bobrovskaya, Twenty Years in Underground Russia is the autobiography of a Bolshevik rank-and-file revolutionary.
• Anna Louise Strong, The Stalin Era, discusses the 1930s and 1940s in the USSR in an overall positive way, despite the fact that Strong herself was expelled from the USSR.

Other items of interest:

• Book reviews
  • Review of Harvey Klehr book
  • Stalin: Man of Contradiction

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