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A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
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The single greatest volume of the Russian Revolution. A masterpiece.
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's RussiaThe Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
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A disturbing, depressing, suffocating read about life under totalitarianism.
Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of SocialismHeaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik
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A former socialist gives us a thorough political and intellectual history of an ultimately flawed and disastrous ideology.
Stalin: The Court of the Red TsarStalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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The single best volume on Uncle Joe.
Young StalinYoung Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Montefiore's recent much praised volume on the early years of the above monster.
Comrades: A World History of CommunismComrades: A World History of Communism by Robert Service
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Excellent one volume history of communism in the 20th century.
Lenin: A BiographyLenin: A Biography by Robert Service
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The messianic tyrant who began the Revolution, the terror and communist police state.
Stalin: A BiographyStalin: A Biography by Robert Service
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Messianic psychopath who entrenched and ossified the above.
Gulag: A History of the Soviet CampsGulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
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Pulitzer Prize winning study of the socialist gulag and the incalcuble human misery.
The Gulag Archipelago [Abridged] (Harvill Press Editions)The Gulag Archipelago [Abridged] (Harvill Press Editions) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Nobel winning Russian anti-communist hero documents and exposes the gulag mass murder in the face of liberal Western denial and apologetics.
Mao: The Unknown StoryMao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
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The best single volume on the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century.
Pol Pot: The History of a NightmarePol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short
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Defended at the time by Chomsky & co, this is sobering introduction, to a communist genocidal killer and his gruesome legacy.
Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite TyrantFidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant by Humberto Fontova
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Totalitarian socialist murderer, who exported Marxist terror for decades, killed over 70,000 Cubans, and tortured and abused countless more. Another 'hero' of the liberal/left.
Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize HimExposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him by Humberto Funtova
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Every liberal/leftist's favourite psychopathic communist mass murderer. Even to this day, he is eulogized by the nihilist Left. (read the reviews)
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, RepressionThe Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by C Courtois
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Should be required reading in schools. A catalogue of over 100 million deaths by communists, Marxists, socialists and Leftists. It outraged the French Left (as it would).
Animal Farm, and, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-FourAnimal Farm, and, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Always study the classics. These two books exposed communism and the Left, nearly 60 years ago. Still isn't read properly or understood by the Left.
Darkness at NoonDarkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
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Masterpiece which exposed the Stalinist brutality. As usual, he was denounced, attacked, smeared and ex-communicated by the Left's apologists.
The Captive Mind (Penguin Modern Classics)The Captive Mind (Penguin Modern Classics) by Czeslaw Milosz
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Another classic, with Orwell and Koestler. Poland's greatest poet lifts the lid on socialist tyranny and the psychology of terror.
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the BreakdownMain Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown by L Kolakowski
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The greatest book ever written about the the intellectual bankruptcy of Marxism. Every student and leftist should read this book. (Read with David Horowitz's books.)
Trotsky: A BiographyTrotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
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Robert Service's long awaited volume on Trotsky. This completes a trilogy of the three monsters (Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin), who brought so much blood and misery to Russia, its neighbours & the world.