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I'd like to see the Lama book. e: new page last post Enver Zogha posted:Scanned some more books. Among them:
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More books I scanned: * The Biographies of the Dalai Lamas (written by a Chinese historian, in China, so as you might imagine it emphasizes Tibet as part of China and Chinese history) * Biographies of the Tibetan Spiritual Leaders Panchen Erdenis (written by the aforementioned Chinese historian, this volume consisting of bios of the Panchen Lamas) * China's Socialist Modernization (a Chinese book from the 1980s going into a lot of detail about China's industry, agriculture, banking, trade, population, etc. during the years 1977-80, including reforms and brief overviews of the pre-1977 situation in each case) * The Political Economy of Revolution: Contemporary Issues as Seen from the Historical Standpoint (a 1981 Soviet text seemingly aimed at pro-Soviet communist parties in Western Europe and North America, discussing subjects like anti-monopoly coalitions, the question of violence and democracy in the struggle for socialism, etc.) * Fighters for National Liberation (Political Profiles) (Soviet analyses of Gandhi, Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, Boumediene, Neto, Ngouabi, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Cabral, and Fanon) In the coming weeks I will be scanning a Soviet history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, and a bunch of other stuff. Enver Zogha has issued a correction as of 21:01 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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Sep 30, 2020 20:56
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Scanned four more works: * History of Ancient Philosophy: Greece and Rome (a 1985 Soviet text, self-explanatory) * Church and Religion in the USSR (1982 Soviet text) * Materialism and Empirio-criticism (a well-known Lenin text, this version published by the Soviets in 1987, I figure it's handy to have a version one can easily cite page numbers from) * History of the August Revolution (1972 North Vietnamese work basically about the Vietminh coming to power) Plenty more stuff to scan, including a bunch of Soviet histories of the USSR, such as a text discussing how the Bolsheviks began to manage the economy after coming to power. Enver Zogha has issued a correction as of 00:43 on Oct 4, 2020 |
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Oct 4, 2020 00:38
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Enver Zogha posted:More books I scanned: These are both really good just FYI, people reading this thread
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Oct 4, 2020 01:12
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sweeeeeeeeeet ismail you are an obsessive of the best kind and you provide an incredibly valuable service. like the foundation from isaac asimov except for communism
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Oct 4, 2020 01:22
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Scanned some more books: * Germany in Transition (a 1923 book by a British left-wing journalist reporting on politics and economics inside Germany, including the power of the monopolists, the existence of German fascists, and the activities of social-democrats and communists) * USA: Aspects of Political and Social Life (an East German book from 1980 giving short essays on the American political system, judiciary, fascist organizations, racism, Native Americans, schooling, youth, trade unions, and the CPUSA) * Brown Book: War and Nazi Criminals in West Germany (an East German book from 1965 giving names of hundreds of West German officials in the fields of politics, the judicial system, the armed forces, the economy, etc. who had held responsible positions under the Nazi regime) * The Paris Commune of 1871 (probably the best English-language account of the Commune) * The Civil War in Spain (originally written in 1938 by a British left-wing journalist, provides context for the Civil War and discusses the war's course during 1936-37 including how the economy was being reorganized on the Republican side)
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Oct 10, 2020 06:54
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these own, thank you.gonna read peng duhai's memoirs
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Oct 11, 2020 08:14
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:sweeeeeeeeeet hey! can you sticky this thread so that it doesn't get lost?
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Oct 11, 2020 08:15
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Victory Position posted:hey! can you sticky this thread so that it doesn't get lost? good idea. a sticky could drive more traffic here, too
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Oct 11, 2020 09:07
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let's take a trip to the top of cspam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBtOTstM-4
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Oct 12, 2020 02:13
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Great posts! Thanks for taking the time to scan them.
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Oct 12, 2020 02:18
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i'm going to attempt to run The Paris Commune of 1871 thru an OCR and then feed that text into a text-to-speech program and listen to it audiobook style. if i can figure out how to make it work in a way that produces a listenable output, i will post the file here and will give the same treatment to any of these other texts that people are interested in listening to
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Oct 12, 2020 02:27
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This is fantastic work
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Oct 13, 2020 23:56
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Few more books scanned: * The Philosophy of Marxism: An Exposition (a sympathetic introduction to the basics of Marxism such as dialectics, historical materialism, how Marxists conceive of revolutions, etc. by a philosopher whom the CPUSA was on friendly terms with) * Perestroika: Its Rise and Fall (by the CPUSA's Moscow correspondent) * Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Pages from his Life (Volume 1 covering 1870-1904, Volume 2 covering 1905-1907), both present chronological overviews of Lenin's life and what he did, interspersed with reminiscences by those who knew him. There was supposed to be third and fourth volumes going up to 1917 and 1924, but the first two vols came out in 1990 so I guess politics intervened. I have tons of books still waiting to be scanned, but there's also tons of books I'd like to get my hands on, so I just want to reiterate that if anyone has disposable income they might want to consider donating to the PayPal mentioned in the original post. I'm going to be scanning the last two Lenin compilations I have left (Against Revisionism and On the Soviet State Apparatus plus a one-volume edition of his Selected Works) and then I'm going to be scanning a bunch of stuff by Marx and Engels which, while already online, I figure having PDF versions of scanned book pages is good for convenience and citation purposes. And then I shall scan a whole drat lot of books about Soviet history, e.g. a two-volume Soviet account of the CPSU's agricultural policy from pre-1917 up to collectivization, a three-volume history of the territory of the USSR from ancient times to the 1970s, etc. Then after this I'll be scanning Soviet books relating to WWII. Enver Zogha has issued a correction as of 12:09 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Oct 14, 2020 08:17
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You're awesome, this is awesome.
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Oct 16, 2020 04:12
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Ever thought about setting up an online library for these documents?
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Oct 16, 2020 14:43
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Organic Lube User posted:Ever thought about setting up an online library for these documents? Meanwhile, a few more books I've scanned: * A Short History of the USSR (published in Moscow in 1965, Part I deals with antiquity up to 1917, Part II deals with 1917 up to the first half of the 1960s, there's a three-volume Brezhnev-era version which I also intend to scan in a few weeks) * Dialectical Materialism (a 1983 Soviet text, meant as an intro to the subject) * The English Revolution 1640 (a 62-page summary of the origins and course of the English Revolution by Marxist historian Christopher Hill) * On the Soviet State Apparatus (a compilation of Lenin's writings on the subject) * Against Revisionism (another compilation of Lenin's writings) * Selected Works (what the Soviets considered the most significant works by Lenin if you had to condense his lifetime of writings into 700 pages, they also put out a three-volume edition which I intend to scan at some point) Enver Zogha has issued a correction as of 03:19 on Oct 19, 2020 |
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Oct 19, 2020 03:13
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if you ever get your hands on some translated works from the dissident philosopher evald ilyenkov i would love to read them. hell, if there are any already-translated works by him that are unavailable on the internet i'll buy the books for you to upload
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Oct 20, 2020 03:36
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These are all welcome!!! Thanks for the awesome work.
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Oct 21, 2020 16:21
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so this rules really hard and i'm definitely going to read some of these books but two questions because you seem like you could answer them and i never got good answers in other threads (sorry friends, you know i love you) 1) what are the best books on the history of the USSR that aren't super propagandist (the only one at my local library was published by Heritage lol) and 2) what are the best books written by people who actually lived in the USSR? also i guess a third question: is there any way you guys would consider converting these to EPUB? PDFs don't seem to work well on Kindles and i think it's a good format. anyway, thanks for the good work, i'll donate to you guys when i can
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BUSH 2112 posted:so this rules really hard and i'm definitely going to read some of these books but two questions because you seem like you could answer them and i never got good answers in other threads (sorry friends, you know i love you) If you are interested in politics, I can recommend Mary MacCauley's Soviet Politics 1917-1991. If you're interested in dissidents in the ussr (and then Solidarity) and want to read a book by a big stinkin' western commie about them, "The Road to Gdansk" by Daniel Singer rules. It talks about Solzhenitsyn and dissidents who turned to the Church and the Tsar, and it talks about the potential for class struggle between apparatchiks and professionals.
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BUSH 2112 posted:1) what are the best books on the history of the USSR that aren't super propagandist (the only one at my local library was published by Heritage lol) E.H. Carr's many-volume History of Soviet Russia series is a very detailed (though nowadays slightly dated) analysis of the Soviet domestic and foreign policies from the October Revolution up to 1929. R.W. Davies' similarly multi-volume The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia series is a sort of successor to Carr's efforts, covering Soviet economic policies from 1929-1939. But yeah the problem with asking for books on Soviet history is that there's not only so many, but that they tend to focus not just on specific subjects but on specific periods as well. For example have books on Soviet consumer culture under Stalin, under Khrushchev, and under Brezhnev, but I can't think of any work that covers the history of Soviet consumerism from Lenin and friends into the Perestroika years. 2. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel by John Scott would probably interest you. Most books on the subject (in English at least) are either by foreigners who before long regretted relocating to the USSR (e.g. Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union by Robert Robinson) or ex-Soviet citizens who are like "the USSR sure does suck" (e.g. I Chose Freedom by Victor Kravchenko.) 3. You can apparently download them in EPUB format, but I don't know how well the texts are formatted for it, nor is it something I know how to do. But if anyone else wants to do so, they can. After all, I put these books on archive dot org because they either have no real copyright or because I have permission to put them publicly online. Meanwhile I finished scanning the Marx & Engels stuff I wanted to scan: * Selected Works in three volumes (Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3) * Capital (Volume I, Volume II, Volume III) * Theories of Surplus-Value (Part I, Part II, Part III) * A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy * On Marx's Capital by Engels * Articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung 1848-49 Obviously the texts in these are already online in HTML format, but I figure it's handy to have actual book scans for convenience and/or citation purposes. So yeah as promised I will soon scan Soviet books on Soviet history, including WWII and Soviet foreign policy. Enver Zogha has issued a correction as of 00:30 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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BUSH 2112 posted:so this rules really hard and i'm definitely going to read some of these books but two questions because you seem like you could answer them and i never got good answers in other threads (sorry friends, you know i love you) Calibre generally does a good job of turning pdf into epub or mobi
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Oct 30, 2020 00:38
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Cool project, gotta check out some of the books when I have less textbooks to plow through. Just wanted to ask, how are you scanning the books? Are you using a book scanner? If so, did you DIY it or is it a commercial one?
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Cached Money posted:Just wanted to ask, how are you scanning the books? Are you using a book scanner? If so, did you DIY it or is it a commercial one? Meanwhile I've been scanning some more Soviet works: * Prevention of War: Doctrines, Concepts, Prospects (probably one of the last books published by the Soviets, back in 1991) * A Short History of Soviet Society (a 650-page history of the USSR published in 1977) There's also a bunch of Soviet booklets from the early 80s in a series titled "The True Story of the Russian Revolution and the Building of Socialism": * How the Revolution Was Won * How the Soviets Were Formed * The First Soviet Government * How the USSR Began to Manage the Economy * One Hundred Nationalities—One People * How Collective Farming Was Established in the USSR: Facts and Fiction * The Socialist Revolution in Russia and the Intelligentsia * The Collapse of the Russian Empire, 1917 * The CPSU in Developed Socialist Society * The Path to Peace—a View from Moscow I still have a bunch more Soviet histories of the USSR to scan.
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Nov 5, 2020 11:32
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Are there any communist books for kids?
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Nov 14, 2020 17:19
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PeterCat posted:Are there any communist books for kids? Meanwhile I've scanned some more works relating to the USSR: * Compilations of reports and resolutions of certain party congresses (1939, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, plus Khrushchev's reports to the 1956 and 1959 congresses; years ago I also scanned a compilation containing material from the the 1961 congress as well as Gorby's report to the 1986 congress) * The Soviets Want Peace, a compilation put out by the CPUSA in 1985 of speeches and writings by Soviet officials such as Chernenko, not the most exciting thing ever but yeah. * Exploit and Tragedy (Lessons of Industrialization in the USSR), a 1990 Soviet pamphlet of two authors critiquing Stalin's method of industrializing the USSR. Aside from the histories of the USSR, of Soviet collectivization, and of Soviet foreign policy I still have to scan, I also have a 700-page compilation of Khrushchev speeches throughout 1958 and a 1970 Soviet work titled Lenin as Head of Government, among other things.
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Just popping in to say that this is great and I was reading through this Soviet booklets the other day. Pretty neat. Extremely neat. Looking forward to more Soviet histories.
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Nov 18, 2020 04:45
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thank you very much for the reading list, I've recently determined that I really need to make an effort to read my theory and this is a great springboard
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I figured this is the thread to ask, though it's not 100% on topic. Are there any Russian-language books you've run into that try to do like an outsider analysis on American pop mythology like superheroes, especially later on circa 70ies and 80ies? I've always sort of wondered if it's going to be hilariously off or reasonably accurate just to get a baseline for how accurate an outsider analysis of such things can be in principle (USSR analyzing contemporary US stuff seems like the best case scenario) I read Russian fairly fluently.
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Mirconium posted:I figured this is the thread to ask, though it's not 100% on topic. Are there any Russian-language books you've run into that try to do like an outsider analysis on American pop mythology like superheroes, especially later on circa 70ies and 80ies? I've always sort of wondered if it's going to be hilariously off or reasonably accurate just to get a baseline for how accurate an outsider analysis of such things can be in principle (USSR analyzing contemporary US stuff seems like the best case scenario) I read Russian fairly fluently. Meanwhile, I've scanned some more Soviet books: * What Is Dialectical Materialism? * Lenin as Head of Government * Leninism and the Agrarian and Peasant Question (Volume One deals with Bolshevik agricultural policy from pre 1917 to the mid-20s, Volume Two deals with the collectivization of agriculture) * History of the USSR in Three Parts (Part I covers ancient times to WWI, Part II covers 1917 to 1941, Part III covers the Great Patriotic War up to 1981) * A Short History of the USSR (published in 1984, goes from ancient times to about the end of the 70s)
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Scanned some more books. * A two-volume history of Soviet foreign policy published in 1981: Volume 1 covers 1917-1945, Volume 2 covers 1945-1980. * The Tehran, Yalta & Potsdam Conferences. Documents, which contain the minutes of conversations held during those three conferences as written down by the Soviets. * “A Good Man Fallen Among Fabians” which is a British ]Marxist critique of George Bernard Shaw. * The Communist International Between the Fifth & the Sixth World Congresses, 1924-8, which provides short summaries of the activities of most Comintern parties during that period. Probably the most significant works I recently scanned though are a seven-volume "Documents of the First International" put out by the Soviets in the 1960s-70s. Volume I covers 1864-1866, Volume II 1866-1868, Volume III 1868-1870, Volume IV 1870-1871, Volume V 1871-1872, plus two volumes dedicated to the Hague Congress titled Minutes and Documents and Reports and Letters. Still have plenty more books to scan, including Soviet works on WWII and the Nuremberg Trials. Enver Zogha has issued a correction as of 07:42 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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thanks again for all this workEnver Zogha posted:* Fighters for National Liberation (Political Profiles) (Soviet analyses of Gandhi, Nehru, Nasser, Sukarno, Boumediene, Neto, Ngouabi, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Cabral, and Fanon) I just finished up a short book of Cabral speeches I got on sale, and realized I didn't know anything about the man or his movement. This seems like it'll be a cool followup.
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Atrocious Joe posted:I just finished up a short book of Cabral speeches I got on sale, and realized I didn't know anything about the man or his movement. This seems like it'll be a cool followup. Meanwhile I've now scanned the following : * Ireland Her Own: An Outline History of the Irish Struggle for National Freedom and Independence (a Marxist account that goes up to the early 1920s, with an epilogue of a few dozen pages bringing events up to the 1960s) * The Irish Crisis (a 1974 book on Northern Ireland, from an Irish Communist) * The End of Ideology Theory: Illusions and Reality. Critical Notes on a Fashionable Bourgeois Conception (as one might guess, a Soviet critique) * Krupskaya's Reminiscences of Lenin (already online in HTML format, but I figure a PDF of the book itself is handy) Next books I scan will be Soviet works related to WWII: a history of that conflict, memoirs of Zhukov and Konev, a book on Axis diplomacy, a history of the Great Patriotic War, a biography of Anthony Eden, two books on Nuremberg, a study of the Gunbatsu, etc. Enver Zogha has issued a correction as of 05:08 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Scanned a bunch of WWII-related Soviet books in the past two weeks: * The Second World War: A Politico-Military Survey (a Khrushchev-era history of the origins and course of the war) * Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union 1941-1945. A General Outline (Brezhnev-era account) * Liberation Mission of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Second World War (about the Red Army's operations in Eastern Europe and Asia) * Year of Victory (memoir by Marshal Konev) * Reminiscences and Reflections (two-volume memoirs of Marshal Zhukov, Volume 1 covering his early life up to the first period of the Great Patriotic War, Volume 2 covering the rest of the war) * Anthony Eden (a Soviet biography of.... Anthony Eden) * World War II: Myths and the Realities (Soviet criticism of Western historiography) * Diplomacy of Aggression: The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis, Its Rise and Fall * The Anti-Hitler Coalition: Diplomatic Co-Operation Between the USSR, USA and Britain During the Second World War 1941-1945 * The Rise and Fall of the Gunbatsu: A Study in Military History * The Nuremberg Epilogue * The Final Reckoning: Nuremberg Diaries * West Berlin (1974 work discussing how it came about and its legal and political situation)
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Just chiming in to say thanks for this amazing thread, I haven't been able to put down the zhukov memoir.
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Slavvy posted:Just chiming in to say thanks for this amazing thread, I haven't been able to put down the zhukov memoir. A few days ago I also scanned a Soviet biography of Kwame Nkrumah. I still have a bunch more books I'll be scanning as well, including some on the Soviet political system. Does anyone have suggestions for subjects they'd like to see me scan books concerning? (I haven't exhausted the number of Soviet works relating to WWII)
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Jan 17, 2021 01:59
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Anything about the Caucuses would be interesting. It seems like there isn't much in English from a native or Russian perspective, especially from before the 1990s.
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I'd be extremely interested in anything wrt transport and technology. Planes and tanks and stuff sure but really anything technical, soviet technology is endlessly fascinating.
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Scanned a few more books: * A 600-page History of Poland published in Poland in 1979, going up to the 1930s. * A Soviet book titled The USA and Western Europe: Economic Relations After World War II * The Hidden Heritage by John Howard Lawson (an American Communist, kinda hard to describe but it's sorta a history of European ideas and movements culminating in the establishment of the first English colonies in North America) * Harmonian Man: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier (self-explanatory, Fourier being one of the famed utopian socialists alongside Owen and Saint-Simon who influenced Marx and Engels) * History of the American Working Class by Anthony Bimba (an American Communist, this being the CPUSA's first attempt at a book-length history of American labor; it was succeeded by Philip S. Foner's multivolume History of the Labor Movement in the United States which can be found here)
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