Bibliography of works about communism

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Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin
Kim Il Sung
Ho Chi Minh
Rosa Luxemburg
Peter Kropotkin
Thomas Muentzer
Mao Zedong
Leon Trotsky
Thomas More
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro

Below is a list of post World War II scholarly books and journal articles written in or translated into English about communism. Items on this list should be considered a non-exhaustive list of reliable sources related to the theory and practice of communism in its different forms.

The criteria for inclusion are meeting one or more of:

  • Books are published by an academic press or major nationally known unbiased publisher.
  • Academic journals listed are mainstream academic journals published by an academic press or major nationally known publisher.
  • Works that have been reviewed in mainstream academic journals.
  • The author is well known and has written works on the subject that would be considered reliable sources.

The #Further reading section contains works with substantial bibliographies about communism.

The individual list items are in APA format and do not use citation templates. References for individual list items are in APA format and use citation templates. ISBNs are not included; editions are noted when important with an explanatory footnote.

General works about the theory and history of communism

The Cambridge History of Communism

  • Pons, S., & Smith, S. A. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism. (Vol. 1). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[a]
  • Naimark, N., Pons, S., & Quinn-Judge, S. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[b]
  • Fürst, J., Pons, S., & Selden, M. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[c]

Works primarily about theory

Books in this section are grouped by subject, not author perspective.

Background

  • Lichtheim, G. (1980). A Short History of Socialism. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Marxism and variations

Leninism and Marxist Leninism

  • Biggart, J. (1981). "Anti-Leninist Bolshevism": The Forward Group of the RSDRP. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 23(2), pp. 134–153.
  • Evans, A. (1987). Rereading Lenin's State and Revolution. Slavic Review, 46(1), pp. 1–19.
  • Gerratana, V. (1977). Stalin, Lenin and 'Leninism'. New Left Review, (103).
  • Harding, N. (1996). Leninism. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • ———. (2010). Lenin's Political Thought (2 vols.). Chicago, IL: Haymarket.
  • Lane, D. S. (1981). Leninism: A Sociological Interpretation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Liebman, M. (1975). Leninism Under Lenin. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
  • Levine, N. (1985). Lenin's Utopianism. Studies in Soviet Thought. 30(2), pp. 95–107.
  • Melograni, P. (1989). Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution: Ideology and Reasons of State, 1917-1920. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International.[6]
  • Meyer, A. G. (1986). Leninism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.[7][8]
  • Ree, E. van. (2010). Lenin's Conception of Socialism in One Country, 1915–17. Revolutionary Russia, 23(2), pp. 159–181.
  • Theen, R. (1972). The Idea of the Revolutionary State: Tkachev, Trotsky, and Lenin. The Russian Review, 31(4), pp. 383–397.
  • Ryan, J. (2012). Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. London: Routledge.
  • Sabine, G. (1961). The Ethics of Bolshevism. The Philosophical Review, 70(3), pp. 299–319.
  • Uldricks, T. J. (1979). Diplomacy and Ideology: The Origins of Soviet Foreign Relations, 1917-1930. London, UK: Sage Publications.[9]
  • White, J. D. (2001). Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution. New York: Red Globe Press.

Trotskyism

Stalinism

Maoism

Dengism

Luxemburgism

Non-Marxism

Religious communism

Anarcho communism

Works about internations expressions of communism

  • Getty, J. (1986). Trotsky in Exile: The Founding of the Fourth International. Soviet Studies, 38(1), pp. 24–35.
  • Kirby, D. (1986). War, Peace and Revolution: International Socialism at the Crossroads, 1914-1918. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.[10][11]
  • McDermott, K., Agnew, J. (1996). The Comintern: A History of International Communism from Lenin to Stalin. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Works about national expressions of communism

Russia and the Soviet Union

Europe

Soviet Eastern Europe

Asia

China

Africa

Americas

The United States

Works about local expressions of communism

Works here are about communist communities which existed in non-communist states.

Comparative Studies

  • Gellately, R. (2007). Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. New York, NY: Knopf.[38][39]
  • Geyer, M., & Fitzpatrick, S. (2009). Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[40][41][42]
  • Gregor, A. J. (2009). Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Kershaw, I., & Lewin, M. (1997). Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pauley, B. F. (2015). Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Communism and Totalitarianism

Biography

Biographies of major figures in the history and theory of communism.

  • Baron, S. H. (1963). Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism. Stanford: Stanford University Press.[g]
  • Deutscher, I. (2015). The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky. New York, NY: Verso.[h]
  • Getzler, I. (1967). Martov: Political Biography: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. New York, NY: Penguin Press.[43][44][45][46]
  • ———. (2017).
  • Mccauley, M. (2015). Stalin and Stalinism. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • McLellan, D. (2006). Karl Marx: A Biography. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Theen, R. (2004). Lenin: Genesis and Development of a Revolutionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press.[49]
  • Wood, A. (2005). Stalin and Stalinism. London, UK: Routledge.

Other

  • Hanebrink, P. (2018). A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.[50]

Select primary sources in English

  • Gregor, R. (2019). Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume 2: The Early Soviet Period 1917-1929. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
  • Hoffmann, D. L.
    (Ed.). (2002). Stalinism: The Essential Readings. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Academic journals

The list below contains academic journals frequently referenced in this bibliography or that will contain other articles related to the history and theory of communism.

Bibliographies

This annotated list contains bibliographies of communism and works containing significant bibliographies on communism.

Books

  • Suny, R. G. (Ed.). (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[i][33][34]
  • Pons, S., & Smith, S. A. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism. (Vol. 1). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[j]
  • Naimark, N., Pons, S., & Quinn-Judge, S. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[b]
  • Fürst, J., Pons, S., & Selden, M. (Eds.). (2017). The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 3, Endgames? Late Communism in Global Perspective, 1968 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.[k]

Academic journals

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  2. ^ a b The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  3. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  4. ^ see Karl Kautsky.
  5. ^ See Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
  6. ^ Contains a 60 page scholarly select bibliography of works relating to the history of the Soviet Union.
  7. ^ See Georgi Plekhanov.
  8. ^ Originally published in three volumes by Oxford University Press (1954, 1959, 1963).
  9. ^ Contains a 60 page scholarly select bibliography of works relating to the history of the Soviet Union.
  10. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  11. ^ The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.

Citations

External links

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