New Books and Pamphlets by Red Star Publishers
New additions to Red Star Publishers are listed here, in reverse chronological order of posting (most recent first):
Lenin on the Emancipation of Women. A selection of articles. $4. Cover
Lenin sobre la emancipación de la mujer. Una selección de artculos. $4. Portada
Lenin: A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism, 1916, $4. Cover
Lenin: Una caricatura del marxismo y el “economismo imperialista”, 1916, $4. Portada
Political Economy - A Textbook. Thiis 620 page book is the English translation of the second, revised edition of the Soviet textbook from 1955. Available in print for $20, or for free dowload: pdf and cover.
Manual de Economia Politica. Eso libro de 765 pags. es la traduccion del primero edicion del libro de texto de 1954. Disponible en prenta por $25 o gratis en forma pdf con portada.
One can compare the English and Spanish books above to see the difference between the 1954 version and the 1955 revised version.
Se puede compara los libros en ingles y
español para ver la diferencia entre la version de 1954 y la
version revisada de 1955.
Unity & Struggle #41. November 2020. $6. Also in pdf and cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and
Organizations.
Unidad y Lucha #41. Octubre 2020. $6. Tambien en pdf y portada. Revista de la Conferencia Internacional de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L.
The following items, originally prepared as pamhlets,are now also available in book format, for $4 each:
Stalin: From Socialism to Communism in the Soviet Union
Harpal Brar: Preface to Trotskyism or Leninism
William F. Dunne & Morris Childs:
Permanent Counter-Revolution - The Role of the Trotzkyites in the
Minneapolis Strikes
William F. Dunne: Gastonia
William F. Dunne: The Great San Francisco General Strike
Walter Linder: The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against GM 1936-37
Anna Louise Strong: The New Lithuania
Pablo Miranda: The Indigenous and Popular Uprising (in Ecuador), a Victory over Neoliberalism
Pablo Miranda: Levantamiento indígena popular, victoria sobre el neoliberalismo
Please note: several of the books
directly below deal with different aspects of the situation in the
Soviet Union during the socialist period. They are meant as companion
pieces to the discussion raised in "When and Why Socialism in the
Soviet Union Failed."
I Wonder as I Wander (excerpts), Langston Hughes.
Internet only. Although published in 1954, several chapters of this
autobiography describe Hughes's experiences of his year spent in the
Soviet Union in 1932-1933. He spent much of his time in Central Asia to
see how the non-white people there were treated. (He also has some
amusing descriptions of Arthur Koestler just before he publicly broke
with communism.) Also included is a chapter on Hughes's experience in
Spain for several months in 1937.
I Change Worlds: The Remaking of an American, Anna Louise Strong.
1935. Internet only. Strong spent almost 25 years in the Soviet Union
as a sympathetic journalist. The book also has some mention of the
"party maximum," which apparently still existed at that time.
USSR: The Story of Soviet Russia, Walter Duranty, 1944. Internet only. Duranty was the long-time Moscow correspondent for the New York Times. Although he was not a Marxist, he did provide a relatively object account of events in the Soviet Union.
Women in the Soviet East, Fannina W. Halle.
1938. Internet only. A very valuable book describing the introduction
of sociallism i the Soviett East. (The first chapters, on Matriarchy
and Patriarchy, while interesting, deal with the pre-Soviet period.)
There are a series of good pictures at the end.
Behind the Urals,
John Scott, 1942, Internet only. This book is by a non-communist U.S.
worker who spent five years helping to build the Magnitogorsk iron and
steel plant. He gives an interesting account of the conditions in the
plant at that time.
History of the Party of Labour of Albania,
1982. $15. This 600 page book is the official history of the heroic
socialist country in Europe, including its fight against Titoite,
Khrushchevite and Chinese revisionism.
When and Why Socialism in the Soviet Union Failed. Cover.
Originally written by the KPD(ML) of Germany in 1996, it is translated
into English for the first time in 2020. Print edition: $7. This 217
page book is an attempt from a Marxist-Leninist viewpoint to get at the
roots of the development of revisionism in the Soviet Union, beyond
saying that "Khrushchev was a traitor" (though he was). Despite a
number of political errors, it is one of the few attempts to deal with
this question,which is of utmost importance to the communist Movement.
Wann und warum der Sozialismus in der Sowjetunion scheiterte. The above book in the original German. Internet only.
This Land is Their Land: A
Revolutionary Working People's History of the United States, by George
Gruenthal. $5. Also free in pdf & cover. Second, expanded edition, 2019. A 184 p. illustrated book giving a brief
overview of U.S. history.
PCOF: For a Revolutionary Break with the System. 2020. $5. 123 p. Also in pdf & cover.
A detaled analysis of he struggles of the French workers and people
against neoliberal attacks, It makes clear that revolutionary movements
can develop in an imperialist countries, not just in oppressed
countries.
PCOF: Pour une rupture révolutionnaire avec le système. 2020. $5. 127 p. Aussi en pdf et couverture. Une
analyse détaillée des luttes des travailleurs et du peuple français
contre les attaques néolibérales. Il est clair que les mouvements
révolutionnaires peuvent se développer dans des pays impérialistes, pas
seulement dans des pays opprimés.
Pablo Miranda: The Indigenous and Popular Uprising (in Ecuador), a Victory over Neoliberalism, October 2019, 66 p. $4. Cover. A detailed description of the uprising that set back the neoliberal plans of the government.
Pablo Miranda: Levantamiento indígena popular, victoria sobre el neoliberalismo. Octubre, 2019. Solamente en pdf. Una descripción detallada del levantamiento que retrasó los planes neoliberales del gobierno.
Unity & Struggle #40. May 2020. $6. Also in pdf & cover. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and
Organizations.
Unidad y Lucha #40. Abril 2020. Solamente en pdf. Organo de la Conferencia Internacinal
de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L.
Revolutionary Democracy, April, 2020. $6. This ML journal from India contains information on the
revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries, as
well as on historical questions of the international communist movement.
The Titoites, by Enver Hoxha.
1982. $13. This 585 p. bookcontains a detailed account of Titoite
revisionism and its plots against against Albania. Titoite Yugoslavia
became the first example of revisionism in power.
Imperialism and the Revolution, by Enver Hoxha.
1979. $9. This 300 page book contains an exposure, not only of U.S.
imperialism, but also Soviet social-imperialism and Chinese
imperialism. Although it is overall excellent, it does have errors,
including its evaluation of Cuba.
Pablo Miranda: The Indigenous and Popular Uprising (in Ecuador), a Victory over Neoliberalism, October 2019, 66 p. (P) $4, Cover.
History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R. Vol. 2. $16, 1946, 700 p. Many details, including military ones, from October to November, 1917. Includes dozens of pictures. Free pdf and cover.
History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R. Vol. 1.
$12, 1936, 500 p. Not as ideological as the History of the CPSU(B), but
includes many political details of the period from 1914 to October,
1917. Free pdf and cover.
Georges Politzer, Principios elementales y fundamentales de filosofía. 340 pág. $9.
Unity & Struggle #39. December, 2019. $5. Journal of the International Conference of M-L Parties and
Organizations.
Unidad y Lucha #39. Octubre, 2019. $5. Organo de la Conferencia Internacinal
de Partidos y Organizaciones M-L.
Revolutionary Democracy, October,
2019.
$6. This ML journal from India contains information on the
revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries, as
well as on historical questions of the international communist movement.
N.B. Turner et al: Is China an Imperalist Country?
2014. Internet only. This book, apparently by a Maoist collective,
gives the answer in the affirmative, showinng by detailed analysis that
China today meets all of Lenin's characteristics of imperialism.
R. Osborn, Freud and Marx,
1937. Internet only. A serious attempt to combine the views of Freud
and Marx. The author wishes to use Freud's view of the subconscious to
uncover the ideas that people are not even aware of that may be holding
them back from socialism. Although this may be worthwhile, the author
also brings in other constructs of Freud, includiing the ego, Oedipus
complex, etc. The interested reader should make up his/her own mind on
this.
La URSS: Desmintiendo la propaganda burguesa. Recopilación
de archives para desmentir la propaganda burguesa en contra de la Unión
de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas desde 1922 hasta 1945. Publicada
por Colectivo Dos de Febrero. Mas de 300 paginas en tamaño de 8.5" x
11". $11. O gratis en formato pdf
Maxim Gorky: On Guard for the Soviet Union.
Published 1933. $5. A sries of essays defending the Soviet Union. His
essays were cited in the Moscow treason trials as one of the reasons
that Trotsky wanteed to have him assassinated, as Gorky's essays were
attracting a lof of support for the Soviet Union from youth in the
captalist countries.
Maxim Gorky: Culture for the People. Published 1939. $5. A series of polemical essays essays on culture.
South Africa: Four pamphlets from the April 2019 Congress of the South
Africa Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (the party that grew out
of the National Metalworkers Union after the Marikana miners' massacre
in 2012):(P) Manifesto $1, Cover; Constitution $2, Cover; Red Book $3, Cover; Guiding Documents $2, Cover.
Frances Stonor Saunders: Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters,
2000. Internet only. A liberal account of how after World War II the
CIA financed many cultural institutions to counter Soviet socialist
culture. Once you get past the author's anti-communism, it has many
valuable exposures of the U.S. Cold War on thecultural front.
Toby Terrar & Monty Thornburg: The Civil Rights History of Greene County, Alabama from a Rank and File Perspective: It’s More Than Race, 2019. It concentrates on the role of public school teacher Robert Brown. 63 pages, 8.5 x 11. $5
Alex Bittelman: Trotsky the Traitor, 1937. (P) $2. Cover
Engels: Principles of Communism, 1847. (P) $1. A sort of prelude to the Communist Manifesto, written in question and answer form. Cover
Michael
Sayers y Albert Kahn, La Gran Conspiración contra Rusia,
1946. $11. Este libro clasico explica las conspiraciones imperialistas
y trotslyistas contra la Unión Sovietica, en traduccion español. Envoltura.
Engels: Principios del Comunismo, 1847. (P) $1. Un preludio al Manifesto Comunista, en la forma de preguntas y respuestas. Envoltura
Stalin: Marxismo y la Cuestión Nacional, 1913. $4
Stalin: Problemas Económicos del Socialismo en la URSS, 1952. $4.
Stalin: Sobre
los defectos del trabajo del partido y sobre las medidas para liquidar a los
elementos trotskistas y demás elementos de doble cara, 1937. (P) $2. Envoltura
Stalin: Brevemente sobre las discrepancias en el partido, 1905. (P) $1. Envoltura
Stalin: Pleno conjunto del C.C. y de la C.C.C. del P.C. (b) de la U.R.S.S., 1933. $4
In China, Capitalism Is Being Consolidated, Not Socialism, PCML Ecuador. A popular pamphlet exposing present-day China as a capitalist country. 2017. (P) $1. Cover
En China se consolida el capitalismo, no el socialismo, PCML Ecuador. Un panfleto populaar que expone como China de hoy es un pais capitalista. 2017. (P) $1. Envoltura.
Proceedings of the Trials of Slansky, et al in Prague, Czechoslovakia,
1952. The transcript of the trial of the Czechoslovak Titoists. Among
other things, they were tried for weakening the economy by developing
light over heavy industry and making the country dependent on
capitalist countries(see particularly the testimony of Frejka).
Ironically, a few years later, the Khrushchevites carried out similar
policies. Internet only.
Documents on the Mindszenty Case, 1949. Additional material on the Mindszenty case from before the trial. Internet only.
Moscow, 1937. A sympathetic but not uncritical description of the Soviet Union by the well-known German author Lion Feuchtwanger.
It includes his evaluation of the second of the famous Moscow treason
trials. Included in this edition is the evaluation of the book in the
journal of the Communist International. $5
An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!,
Claudia Jones, 1949. A comradely criticism of progressives, including
other Communists, by a leading Black Communist Woman. (P) $2. Cover
The Trial of Jozsef Mindszenty,
Budapest, 1949. Transcript of the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty and his
accomplices, found guilty of plotting to overthrow the Hungarian
government. They had even made up a list of cabinet members, supporters
of the Hapsburg empire, who would form a future government. They also
recognized that such a government could only come to power through a
U.S. occupation as the result of a third world war. Internet only.
Laszlo Rajk and His Accomplices before the People’s Court,
Budapest. 1949. Laszlo Rajk and his accomplices were found guilty of
trying to overthrow the People's Democratic government in Hungary,
working for the Titoites and through them Anglo-American imperialism.
This was at the time of the U.S. strategy of "rollback communism,"
which authorized "preventive direct action, including sabotage,
anti-sabotage, demolition, and evacuation measures," as well as
"subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground
resistance movements, guerrillas, and refugee liberation groups."
Internet only.
Study Handbook of Marxism-Leninism Mao Tsetung Thought, by Canadian Communist League (M-L). A 320-page book of quotes on various topics of Marxism-Leninism. $8.
Histoire du Mouvement Communiste International I, 1848-1917, Petit Bibliotheque Chinoise. Jusque'a la revolution russe. 1976. Un livre de 160 pages en français. $5.
Histoire du Mouvement Communiste International II, 1848-1917, Petit Bibliotheque Chinoise. Sur leninisme et la revolution russe. 1976. Un livre de 160 pages en français. $5.
Chile and the Road to Socialism: Lessons of the Pinochet Coup of 1973, by Willi Dickhut, with an unauthorized introduction by Jim Rosenbaum, 2013. (P) $3. Cover.
This Land is Their Land: A
Revolutionary Working People's History of the United States, by George
Gruenthal. $5. Second, expanded edition, 2019. A 184 p. illustrated book giving a brief
overview of U.S. history.
Stalin:
Waiting For ... The Truth!, by Grover Furr. $25+$5 postage. This 360-page book exposes the falsehoods in Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941. Click on title for details.
The Theory of Knowledge,
Maurice Cornforth, 1955. The third volume of the above work. It is
also the original edition of the book, before revisionist editorial changes.
$6. Also available in Word or pdf
format.
Shih Chan: A Brief History of the United States, 1972. (P) $2. Translation of a Chinese pamphlet providing a good, short (44 p.) summary of U.S. working class history. Cover
Two articles regarding elections:
Stalin: Muddle..., 1907 and
Lenin: The Results and Significance of the U.S. Presidential Elections, 1912. (P). $1
The Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution.
1934. A reprint from the Communist Party of Great Britain of the Thesis
of the Second Congress of the Communist International of 1920. (P). $1.
Cover
Harpal Brar: Preface to Trotskyism or Leninism, 1993. (P) $3. Cover.
This preface contains any quotes from Trotsky and penin showing that
they held opposing views for most of the period before and after the
Bolshevik revolution.
Revolutionary Democracy. October 2018.
$6. This ML journal from India contains information on the
revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries.
Some earlier issues are available for $2. The contents of earlier
issues can be seen at: http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org. Please check with webmaster at email address above.
Karl Marx: Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. (P) $3. 1859. Cover
Philip Stein : Siqueiros, His Life and works. Chapter 13: Leon Trotsky.
Siqueiros was one of the great Mexican muralists. Phil Stein was a
painter and member of the Communist Party USA who studied under
Siqueiros and wrote a biography of him. This chapter deals with the
April 1940 attack on Trotsky (not the one in which Trotsky was killed
the following August) masterminded by Siqueiros in an attempt to force
the Mexican govrnment to expel Trotsky from the country. 1994. (P) $1. Cover
The Heritage of Sen Katayama.
Reprint from the Communist Party's journal Political Affairsfrom 1975.
Katayama was not only a founding member of the Communist Party of
Japan, but took part in the communist movements in Mexico, Canada and
the U.S. (P) $1. Cover
Handbook of Philosophy, by M. Rosenthal and P. Yudin.
$6, 1949. An alphabetical index of philosophical terms, with enough
cross-references to get a rudimentary idea of dialectical materialist
philosophy, in 172 pages.
With Stalin, by Enver Hoxha.
1981. $5. Hoxha's account of his five meetings with Stalin. Also
detaills of his discussion with Greek comrades about the Civil War in
that country.
Bill Bland: The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union.
1980. $9. This 304 page book details the restoration of capitalism
under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, relying mainly on Soviet sources.
Revolutionary Democracy.
April 2018.
$6. This ML journal from India contains information on the
revolutionary movement in India, China, Russia and other countries.
Some earlier issues are available for $2. The contents of earlier
issues can be seen at: http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org. Please check with webmaster at email address above.
Unity & Struggle
#37.
October, 2018. $5. Journal of the International Conference of M-L
Parties
and Organizations. Special issue on the bicentenary of Marx's birth.
Some earlier issues are available for $2. The contents of earlier
issues can be seen at: http://cipoml.net/en/?cat=3. Please check with webmaster at email address above.
Unidad y Lucha
#37. Octubre, 2018. $5. Organo de la Conferencia Internacinal de Partidos y
Organizaciones M-L. Numero especial del bicentenario del nacimiento de
Marx. Algunos numeros anteriores estan disponibe por $2. Los contenidos de numeros anteriores se puede ver en: http://www.cipoml.net/es/?cat=6. Favor de contactar el maestro del sitio por el correo electronico por arriba.
This Land is Their Land: A Revolutionary Working People's History of the United States, by George Gruenthal. $5. 2016. A short, 130 p. illustrated book giving a brief overview of U.S. history.
Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism,
by a group lead by O.V. Kuusinen. 1963. Although the beginning sections of
this book have some straight-forward accounts of dialectical
materialist philosophy and political economy, the sections dealing with
socialism are full of Khrushchevite revisionist distortions of
Marxism-Leninism. Internet only.
The Khrushchevites, by Enver Hoxha.
1980. $8. This 268 p. book contains memoirs by the Albanian
Marxist-Leninist leader of the revisionist leaders of the Soviet Union
and eastern European countries after Stalin's death.
On Contradiction, by Mao Tsetung. 1937. (P). $2. A 42 p. pamphlet.
On Practice, by Mao Tsetung. (P). $1. A 16 p. pamphlet.
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Winter. Last Days of the USSR. $8. A description of the U.S.S.R. by
the leader of a tour of women trade unionists during the Gorbachev era. A 192 page book
with many full-color pictures.
J. Lenz, The Second International,
1932. Internet only. A fascinating history of the Second International,
by one of the leaders of Communist Party of Germany. Although the
tactics of the Communist International were to change a few years
later, this book is a detailed exposure of both the open social
patriots as well as the centrists in the Second International, as well
as an explanation of the role of Lenin anad other revolutionary leaders.
A. Zhdanov: The International Situation, 1947. (P) $1. Cover
Lenin: Las tareas del proletariado en la presente revolución ("Tesis de Abril"), 1917. (P) $1. Envoltura
Lenin: La revolución socialista y el derecho de las naciones a la autodeterminación, 1916. (P) $1. Envoltura
The Soviet Power: The Soviet Sixth of the World, Hewlett Johnson,
1940. $10. A sympathetic account by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of
Canterbury, of the building of socialism in the Soviet Union. Johnson
sees socialism as the actual fulfillment of the principles of true
Christianity.
We Saw for Ourselves. Report of the Nineteen Americans on Their Visit to the USSR. 1951. $5. A description of the Soviet Union by 19 Americans, 9 black and 10 white, including 3 ministers.
The USSR and Finland, Historical, Economic, Political Facts and Documents. 1939. (P) $1. Cover A background to the Soviet Finnish war. Internet only.
Lenin, El imperialismo, fase superior del capitalismo, 1916. $5. En español.
Lenin, El estado y la revolución, 1917. $5. En español.
Lenin, La revolución proletaria y el renegado Kautsky, 1918. $5. En español.
Lenin, La enfermedad infantil del “izquierdismo” en el comunismo, 1920. $5. En español.
Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916. $5
Constitution of the U.S.S.R. 1936. The
so-called Stalin Constitution. (P) $1. Cover
Lenin: The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, 1918. $5.
Vitaly Startsev: How the Soviets Were Formed.
1982. $5. A short book detailing the role of the Soviets from the
1905 revolution to October 1917. It emphasizes Lenin's statement that
the Soviets were formed by the workers themselves.
Michael Sayers and Albert Kahn, The Great Conspiracy against Russia.
1946. $11. This classic book explains the imperialist and Trotskyite
conspiracy again the Soviet Union.
Gerhard Eisler, Albert Norden, Albert Schreiner: The Lesson of Germany, 1945. $6. An important book dealing with the rise and fall of fascism in Germany.
Wreckers on Trial. The trial of
the Industrial Party, Moscow, December-Novemberm 1930. This was a group
of engineers and others who plotted sabotage against Soviet industry.
They confessed but received death sentences, which were commuted to
prison terms. Several later loyally served Soviet development. With a
forward by Andrew Rothstein. Internet only.
Ekaterina Blinova: Unveiling Lies of the Cold War; What Lay Beneath
Anti-Soviet Myths. 2015. $4. This 66 page booklet consists of articles
originally published in SputnikNews.com (except for one publlished in
Russia-Insider.com),.
Black and Red: The Role of Communists in the Black Liberation Movement. 2015. $2. Cover. A 31-page reprint of short articles from African-American Communists.
Rosa Luxemburg's Views on the Russian Revolution, by Clara Zetkin:,1922,
$10. This 225 page book has ben translated into English for the
first time. It shows how Luxemburg, in her actions in the German
Revolution after her release from prison in November 1918 until her
murder by soldiers in the pay of the Social-Democratic government in
Germany in January 1919, in practice took the same positions as the
Bolsheviks in the Otober Revolution. It is an important exposure of the
Social-Democrats in Germany and around the world, who try to assert
that Luxemburg was one of them.
Soviets in Central Asia, by W.P. & Zelda K. Coates,
1951. This 300 page book documents the history of Central Asia from
Tsarist times to the political, economic and cultural developmentunder
Soviet power. A valuable resource showing how the people in these
republics improved their lives under socialim. Internet only.
A People Reborn, the Story of North Ossetia, edited by Andrew Rothstein, 1954. A report by a British delegation on a visit to the Autonomous Republic in the NorthCaucasus. Internet only
Felix Dzherzinsky: A Biography, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1988. Internet only
Emile Burns (ed.) Handbook of Marxism,
1935. $12. This 800-page book contains large sections (not just
quotes) from major works of Marxism-Leninism, including the Communist
Manifesto, Capital (Vol. 1), Anti-Dühring, Materialism and
Empirio-Criticism, Imperialism, State and Revolution,
"Left-Wing"Communism, Report to the 17th Congress of the CPSU(b) 1934,
and the Program of theCommunist International 1928. A useful work for
those who want much of the basics of Marxism-Leninism in one volume.
Engels: Anti-Dühring, 1894. $6
Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 1939. $2. Cover
Lenin: “Left-Wing” Communism, An Infantile Disorder, 1920, $5.
On Guard against Browderism, Titoism, Trotskyism, John Gates, 1951. (P) $1. Cover
What is Marxism?, by Emile Burns, 1939. $4. A very good summary of the basics of Marxism-Leninism in 74 pages. Good for beginners.
Historical
Materialism,
Maurice Cornforth, 1954. The second volume of the above work. It is
also the original edition of the book, before revisionist editorial changes.
$6. Also available in Word or pdf
format.
Readers' Guide to the Marxist Classics, 1952, prepared and edited by Maurice Cornforth. Internet only.
Materialism and the Dialectical Method,
Maurice Cornforth, 1953. A very readable explanation of Dialectical
Materialism in 122 pages. This is the original edition of the book,
before revisionist editorial changes. $5. Also available in dowloadable Word or pdf format.
Rumanian Summer, Jack Lindsay with Maurice Cornforth.
1953. This 170 page book, with pictures, gives a portrait of the
Rumaniann People's Democracy before the advent of revisionism. $5.
On the Road to Bolshevization, 1929. (P) $1.Cover
Philip Farr, Soviet Russia and the Baltic Republics, 1944. (P) $1. Cover
Andrew Rothstein: Man and Plan in Soviet Economy, 1948. A detailed account of Soviet planning. Internet only.
Anna Louise Strong: Spain in Arms, 1937. $4.
Mike Gold: Why I am a Communist, 1932. (P) $1.
Lenin: The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ("April Theses"), 1917. (P) $1. Cover
V. Adoratsky: Dialectical Materialism, 1934. Internet only.
From Harry Haywood:
Black Bolshevik, Chapters on the Afro-American National Question, 1978
Chapter 4: An Organization of Revolutionaries. (P) $1.Cover 4
Chapter 12: Return Home: White Chauvinism Under Fire. (P) $1. Cover 12
Lenin: The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to
Self-Determination, 1916. (P) $1. Cover
Organisation and Structure of the Communist Party, Communist International, 3rd Congress, 1921. (P) $1. Cover
Fifteen Years of Soviet Georgia, by Lavrenti Beria, 1936. (P) $1. Cover
Joseph Weydemeyer, Pioneer of American Socialism, by Karl Obermann, 1947. Internet only
A. A. Heller: One Sixth of the World. 1937. (P) $1. Cover
George Orwell: Anti-Communist Propagandist, Champion of Trotskyism & State Informer, reprinted from the Stalin Society, Britain, 1998. (P) $1. Cover
Soviet Policy and Its Critics,
by J.R. Campbell. 1939. $6. This 329 page book by a leading member of the Communist Party of Britain is mainly an exposure of
Trotskyism, both in its anti-Leninist theory and its
counter-revolutionary practice.
Marxism and the National Question, J.V. Stalin, 1913. $4.
The Negro National Colonial Question, Nelson Peery,
1972. $5. This 200 page book contains a forthright defense of the Marxist
analysis that there is an African-American nation in the Black Belt
south with the right to self-determination. It contains many maps and
statistics to back up this position.
Lenin on the Woman Question. Clara Zetkin. (P) $2. Cover
Speeches on the American Communist Party, J.V. Stalin, 1929. (P) $2. Cover
Wages, Price and Profit, by K. Marx. $5.
What Is To Be Done, by V.I. Lenin.
$5. The famous book in which Lenin explained the teachings on the
foundation of the party in Russia in opposition to economism.
The State and Revolution, by V.I. Lenin. $5.
Political Economy: A Beginner's Course, by A. Leontiev, 1935. Price $5. This 232 page book is an excellent introdiction to reading Marx's Capital. Besides covering some of the main topics in the first volume of Capital,
it explains Lenin's analysis of imperialism and the question of crises,
including data related to the crisis of the 1930s (the Great
Depression).
Days With Lenin, Maxim Gorki, 1932. This 44 page pamphlet describes Gorky's meetings with Lenin and others over the years. (P) $2. Cover
Engels on Science, J.D. Bernal, 1935. A 20 page pamphlet summarizing Engels application of dialectics to science. (P) $1. Cover
Communism and the Family, Alexandra Kollontai. 1918. A 15 page pamphlet on how the family will change under communism. (P) $1. Cover
Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union, Vol. I. 1933. First of 3 volumes of the transcript of the so-called Metro-Vickers trial,
of British subjects and their Soviet accomplices, found guilty of
wrecking and espionage activities. For a fascinating discussion from
relatively objective bourgeois sources that the British subjects, when
they were released and returned to Britain, stated clearly that they
were not subject to any form of torture or undue pressure, see: http://www.red-channel.de/the_real_stalin_moscow_trials.htm. Internet only
Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union, Vol. 2. 1933. Second of 3 volumes of above transcript. Internet only
Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union, Vol. 3. 1933. Last of 3 volumes of above transcript. Internet only
[Greek] National Liberation Front (E.A.M.) White Book, Greek American Council, August 1945. Documents that show how British forces bombed Athens, which had been
liberated by the E.A.M, at the end of World War II. 131 pages, $4.
Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin
and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands Is False, by Grover Furr, 2014, 581 pages, $25.
¿Que Hacer? V.I. Lenin, en español.
El famoso libro de Lenin que explico las enseñanzas sobre la
fundacion del partido en Rusia y la lucha en contra del economismo.
$5.
Readings in Leninism. This is a
4-volume set, first published in the U.S. in the 1930s, with extended
quotes from the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin on major
questions of Marxist-Leninist theory. $5 each volume: 1) What Is
Leninism?, 2) The Theory of the Proletarian Revolution, 3) The
Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 4) Strategy and Tactics.
The Road to Life (An Epic of Education), A.S. Makarenko.
This 3-volume set is an autobiographical novel describing the formation
of the Gorky Colony in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, which Makarenko
headed. After the Civil War, homeless youth roamed the country. The
colony sucessfully integrated them into the new socialist life through
collective labor and self-discipline. $5 each volume.
Marxist Glossary, L. Harry
Gould, 1948. An 82 page book containing definitions and explanations
of common Marxist terms, many including brief quotes from Marx, Engels,
Len and Stalin further elucidating how these terms have been used.
$4.
Steel and Slag, Vladimir Popov,
1951. This is a 284 page socialist realist novel that takes place in a
steel mill in the Ukraine that had to relocate to the Urals during
World War II. It deals with the transformation of people under
adversity, some becoming hardened as steel, some degenerating into
slag. $6.
History of the Three Internationals, William Z. Foster,
1955. This 458 page book contains Foster's detailed description of the
work of the First, Second and Third Internationals. $8.
Soviet Union, Land without Unemployment: In Pictures. 1931. This 200 page book contains hundreds of pictures on all facets of Soviet life, with captions in English, en
español and en français. The foreword and 15 page epilogue on the Five-Year Plan by Alfred Kurella are only in English. $5.
The Soviets Expected It, Anna Louise Strong, 1941. $5. This 178 page book deals not only
with the beginning of the German war on the Soviet Union, but also the
background to the war and the development of Soviet industry.
Volantes y artículos tempranos, V.I. Lenin, en español. (P) $2. Cubierto
A los obreros y obreras de la fábrica Thornton, volante, 1895
La guerra con China, artículo, periódico Iskra, 1900
El alistamiento forzoso de
183 estudiantes, artículo, periódico Iskra, 1901
Golpea duro, pero no mates, artículo, revista Zarya, 1901
Early Writings, V.I. Lenin. (P) $2.
Cover
To the Working Men and Women of the Thornton Factory, Leaflet, 1895
The War in China, Article, Iskra newspaper, 1900
The Drafting of 183 Students Into the Army, Article, Iskra newspaper, 1901
Beat – But Not to Death!, Article, Zarya magazine, 1901
Labor’s Own William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1949. (P) $2. Cover
Women, Marriage & Sex, Clara Zetkin, 1925. From Reminiscences of Lenin. (P) $1. Cover
From Black Bolshevik, Harry Haywood, Chapters on the Soviet Union, 1978
Chapter 5: A Student in Moscow, (P) $1. Cover 5
Chapter 6: Trotsky's Day in Court, (P) $1. Cover 6
Chapter 7: The Lenin School, (P) $1. Cover 7
Chapter 8: Self-Determination: The Fight for a Correct Line, (P) $1. Cover 8
Chapter 9: Sixth Congress of the Comintern: A Blow Against the Right, (P) $1. Cover 9
Chapter 10: Lovestone Unmasked, (P) $1. Cover 10
Chapter 11: My Last Year in the Soviet Union, (P) $1. Cover 11
Chapter 14: Reunion in Moscow, (P) $1. Cover 14
Stalin, Pablo Miranda, 2012. (P) $1. Cover
Stalin, Pablo Miranda, 2012, en español. (P) $1. Cubierto
Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union, Mario Sousa. (P) $2. Cover
A History of the U.S.S.R., Andrew Rothstein,
1950. $8. A 400-page history by a leading member of the
then-revolutionary Communist Party of Britain. This gives many details
of the economic and political history of the Soviet Union not included
in the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The United Front, Georgi Dimitrov,
1935-1937. $7. Besides the famous speeches at the 7th Congress of
the Communist International, this edition includes 18 other speeches
and articles dealing with the application of the united front in
various countries over the following two year.
Joseph E. Davies: Excerpts from Mission to Moscow concerning the Moscow Trials, 1943. (P) $2. Cover
Diez días que estremecieron al mundo, John Reed, 1919, en español. El famoso libre sobre la revolución rusa. 336 pág. $8.
This Monstrous War, Wilfred Burchett.
1953. This 288 page book presents the Korean War and the armistice
negotiations from the side of the Korean People's Army and the Chinese
People's Volunteers. When this book was sent to the United States in
late 1953, it was seized by the U.S. Customs and dumped into the ocean,
so this is the first time it is available in the U.S.288 p. $6.
Koje Unscreened, Wilfred G. Burchett,
1953?. On the treatment of Korean and Chinese prisoners in the
notorious U.S.-run prison camp during the Korean War. Internet only
Light on Korea, D.N. Pritt, 1950. (P) $1. Cover
A History of the U.S.S.R., Andrew Rothstein, 1950. A 400-page history by a leading member of the then-revolutionary Communist Party of Britain. Internet only
Stalin: Story of a Great Servant of Mankind Who Belongs to the Ages, Andrew Rothstein, 1953. (P) $1. Cover
The Crime of el Fanguito, William Z. Foster, 1948. On a notorious slum in Puerto Rico. (P) $1. Cover
Three Articles from the Communist Party in the 1930s on the Afro-American National Question. (P) $1. Cover
The Constituent Assembly Elections and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, V.I. Lenin, 1919. (P) $1. Cover
Why Soviet Russia Should Be Recognized, Friends of the Soviet Union, 1933. (P) $1. Cover
The U.S. State is a Machine Oppressing the Working Class, Jim Rosenbaum & Al Johnson, 1991. (P) $1. Cover
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