Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)

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American Communism and Soviet Russia: The Formative Period
Draper, Theodore
Book
1960
A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
Lenin
Lih, Lars T.
Book
2011
Lenin and the Vanguard Party
James, C.L.R.
Article
1963
To believe that Bolshevism, or to be more precise, Leninism, would under the circumstances advocate or preach the theory of the vanguard party is to continue slander of Leninism, but not to his theory...
Lenin's Last Struggle
Lewin, Moshe
Book
1967
An account of the last few months of Lenin's political life, when he was seriously ill but still attempting to guide the course of the Soviet state.
Our Generation: Volume 19 Number 1
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Article
1987
Problems of Everyday Life: And Other Writings On Culture & Science
Trotsky, Leon
Book
1973
The focus of this book is the impact of the Russian Revolution of the culture life of the country -- and conversely, the effect of the country's cultural backwardness on the course of the revolution. ...
The Question of Stalin
Colletti, Lucio
Article
Colletti explores the contradictions of Bolshevism as the vanguard party which constructed a powerful state apparatus to manage the socialist relations of production while abandoning the development o...
The Russian Revolution in Retreat: Against The Current vol. 136
Farber, Samuel
Article
2008
The relationship between “Leninism” and Stalinism has been a highly controversial topic between the political left and right as well as within the left itself. The “totalitarian” school of thought, hi...
The Socialist Register 1965: Volume 2: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1964
The Socialist Register 1968: Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1968
The Socialist Register 1976: Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1976
Soviet History Archive
Website
Documents on the Russian Revolution and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
Trotsky, Leon
Book
1941
Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
Stalin's Frame-Up System and the Moscow Trials (Review)
Mattick, Paul
Article
1951
Trotsky's own indignation over the Moscow Trials, although understandable since they were directed against his followers and fellow-oppositionists, was nevertheless inconsistent with his own political...