Bibliography of works about communism

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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.

Contents

The criteria for inclusion are meeting one or more of:

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

Works primarily about theory

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

Background

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

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

Communism and totalitarianism

Biography

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

Other

Select primary sources in English

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

Academic journals

See also

References

Notes

  1. The notes at the end of each essay (chapter) includes substantial bibliographic entries.
  2. 1 2 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

  1. Hosking, Geoffrey (2011). "Review of The Rise and Fall of Communism". The Slavonic and East European Review . 89 (3): 580–583. doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.89.3.0580. JSTOR   10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.89.3.0580.
  2. Snyder, Timothy (2010). "Review of The Rise and Fall of Communism". Slavic Review . 69 (3): 725–727. doi:10.1017/S0037677900012213. JSTOR   25746279. S2CID   164578448.
  3. Newnham, Randall E. (2010). "Review of The Rise and Fall of Communism". Europe-Asia Studies . 62 (4): 695–696. doi:10.1080/09668131003737027. JSTOR   27808738. S2CID   217535923.
  4. CHATTERJEE, C. (2022). "Peripheries, Ideologies, and the Origins of War". The Russian Review. 81 (2): 358–362. doi:10.1111/russ.12366. S2CID   246910020.
  5. Mawdsley, Evan (2022). "The spectre of war: International Communism and the origins of World War II". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 64 (1): 119–120. doi:10.1080/00085006.2022.2027114. S2CID   247201377.
  6. Fiddick, T. (1991). "Reviewed Work: Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution: Ideology and Reasons of State, 1917-1920. by Piero Melograni". Slavic Review. 50 (2): 441–442. doi:10.2307/2500225. JSTOR   2500225. S2CID   164785073.
  7. Tucker, Robert C.; Meyer, Alfred G. (1959). "Leninism". The Slavic and East European Journal. 3 (3): 299. doi:10.2307/305030. JSTOR   305030.
  8. Low, Alfred D.; Meyer, Alfred G. (1959). "Leninism". Russian Review. 18 (3): 241. doi:10.2307/126303. JSTOR   126303.
  9. Campbell, J. C. (1980). "Reviewed Work: Diplomacy and Ideology: The Origins of Soviet Foreign Relations, 1917-1930 by Teddy J. Uldricks". Foreign Affairs. 58 (5): 1199–1200. doi:10.2307/20040627. JSTOR   20040627.
  10. Joll, J. (1987). "Reviewed Work: War, Peace and Revolution: International Socialism at the Crossroads 1914-1918 by David Kirby". The Slavonic and East European Review. 65 (2): 296–297. JSTOR   4209512.
  11. Wohl, R. (1989). "Reviewed Work: War, Peace, and Revolution: International Socialism at the Crossroads, 1914-1918 by David Kirby". The Journal of Modern History. 61 (1): 142–144. doi:10.1086/468201. JSTOR   1880977.
  12. Nakai, Kazuo (1981). "Reviewed work: The Sovietization of Ukraine, 1917-1923: The Communist Doctrine and Practice of National Self-Determination. Revised edition, Jurij Borys". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 5 (2): 278–279. JSTOR   41035914.
  13. Ellison, Herbert J. (1962). "Robert V. Daniels, the Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960". Slavic Review. 21: 162–163. doi:10.2307/3000554. JSTOR   3000554. S2CID   164654258.
  14. Barghoorn, F. C. (1961). "Reviewed work: The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia, Robert Vincent Daniels". The Journal of Modern History. 33 (4): 466–467. doi:10.1086/238969. JSTOR   1877273.
  15. Dallin, Alexander; Daniels, Robert Vincent (1961). "The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia". Political Science Quarterly. 76 (2): 304. doi:10.2307/2146231. hdl: 2027/uva.x000379449 . JSTOR   2146231.
  16. Munk, Frank; Daniels, Robert Vincent (1961). "The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia". The Western Political Quarterly. 14 (3): 778. doi:10.2307/444301. hdl: 2027/uva.x000379449 . JSTOR   444301.
  17. Husband, W. B. (1994). "Reviewed Work: The Bolshevik Party in Conflict: The Left Communist Opposition of 1918 by Ronald I. Kowalski". Russian History. 21 (1): 91–92. JSTOR   24657268.
  18. Melancon, M. (1993). "Reviewed Work: The Bolshevik Party in Conflict: The Left Communist Opposition of 1918. by Ronald I. Kowalski". Slavic Review. 52 (2): 368–369. doi:10.2307/2499939. JSTOR   2499939. S2CID   164411133.
  19. Venturi, A. (1984). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police by George Leggett". The Journal of Modern History. 56 (4): 767–768. doi:10.1086/242774. JSTOR   1880364.
  20. Squire, P. S. (1982). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police by George Leggett". The Slavonic and East European Review. 60 (1): 132–133. JSTOR   4208468.
  21. Thurston, R. W. (1982). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police. The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage (December 1917 to February 1922). by George Leggett". Slavic Review. 41 (3): 549–551. doi:10.2307/2497034. JSTOR   2497034. S2CID   157933756.
  22. Dallin, A. (1982). "Reviewed Work: The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police; The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (December 1917 to February 1922) by George Leggett". The American Historical Review. 87 (4): 1136–1137. doi:10.2307/1858027. JSTOR   1858027.
  23. Long, J. W. (1975). "The "Red Years": European Socialism versus Bolshevism, 1919–1921". History: Reviews of New Books. 3 (6): 154. doi:10.1080/03612759.1975.9946948.
  24. Daniels, Robert V. (1980). "Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922. By T. H. Rigby. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1979". Slavic Review. 39 (2): 308–309. doi:10.2307/2496801. JSTOR   2496801. S2CID   164690316.
  25. Rees, E. A. (1980). "Reviewed work: Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom 1917-1922, T. H. Rigby". Soviet Studies. 32 (4): 598–600. JSTOR   151293.
  26. Wortman, Richard; Rogger, Hans (1985). "Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution, 1881-1917". Russian Review. 44 (3): 299. doi:10.2307/129309. JSTOR   129309.
  27. Ascher, Abraham (1984). "Reviewed work: Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution 1881-1917, Hans Rogger". Russian History. 11 (4): 452–454. JSTOR   24652691.
  28. Clements, B. E. (1985). "Reviewed Work: Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. by William G. Rosenberg". Slavic Review. 44 (4): 720–721. doi:10.2307/2498551. JSTOR   2498551. S2CID   164662130.
  29. Verhoeven, Claudia (2013). "Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. By James Ryan. Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series. London: Routledge, 2012. Xii, 260 pp". Slavic Review. 72 (4): 899–900. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.72.4.0899. S2CID   165029747.
  30. Shore, Marci (18 August 2017). "The Russian Revolution Recast as an Epic Family Tragedy". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  31. Owen Hatherley (15 December 2017). "The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine review – the Russian Revolution told through one building". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  32. Rose Deller (26 February 2018). "Book Review: The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine". The London School of Economics. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  33. 1 2 Smith, Mark B. (2009). "Reviewed work: The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume 3: The Twentieth Century, Ronald Grigor Suny". The Slavonic and East European Review. 87 (3): 564–567. doi:10.1353/see.2009.0090. JSTOR   40650434. S2CID   247619693.
  34. 1 2 Nathans, Benjamin (2009). "The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume 3, the Twentieth Century. Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007". The Journal of Modern History. 81 (3): 756–758. doi:10.1086/649129.
  35. Sorenson, Jay B.; Schapiro, Leonard (1957). "The Origin of the Communist Autocracy, Political Opposition in the Soviet State, First Phase: 1917-1922". American Slavic and East European Review. 16: 84. doi:10.2307/3001342. JSTOR   3001342.
  36. Hendel, Samuel; Schapiro, Leonard (1956). "The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political Opposition in the Soviet State, First Phase, 1917-1922". Political Science Quarterly. 71 (2): 296. doi:10.2307/2145036. JSTOR   2145036.
  37. Elkin, B. (1961). "Roots of Revolution: A History of Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia". International Affairs. 37 (2): 209–210. doi:10.2307/2611838. JSTOR   2611838.
  38. Walton, C. D. (2009). "A Review of "Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe"". Comparative Strategy. 29 (2): 190–192. doi:10.1080/01495930902799814. S2CID   153217580.
  39. Tismaneanu, V. (2009). "Book Review: Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 10 (3): 724–729. doi:10.1353/kri.0.0100. S2CID   161337701.
  40. Krammer, A. (2010). "Reviewed Work: Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick". German Studies Review. 33 (2): 431–432. JSTOR   20787947.
  41. Stibbe, M. (2011). "Reviewed Works: Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately; Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick; Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time by Bernard Wasserstein". The Journal of Modern History. 83 (2): 387–394. doi:10.1086/659158. JSTOR   10.1086/659158.
  42. Gleason, A. (2009). "Reviewed Work: Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick". Slavic Review. 68 (4): 946–948. JSTOR   25593796.
  43. Zubok, Vladislav (2016). "Book Review: Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928". Cold War History. 16 (2): 231–233. doi:10.1080/14682745.2016.1153851. S2CID   156644120.
  44. Siegelbaum, L. (2015). "Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928". Slavic Review. 74 (3): 604–606. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.3.604. S2CID   164564763.
  45. Folly, Martin H. (2016). "Book Review: Stalin: Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928". The Historian. 74 (4): 813–815. doi:10.1111/hisn.12396. S2CID   152066357.
  46. Tismaneanu, V. (2015). "Book Review: Stalin: Volume 1: The Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928". Perspectives on Politics. 13 (2): 567–569. doi:10.1017/S1537592715000936. S2CID   151500856.
  47. Carley, Michael Jabara (2018). "Stalin. Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler 1928–1941". Europe-Asia Studies. 70 (3): 477–479. doi:10.1080/09668136.2018.1455444. S2CID   158248404.
  48. Lenoe, Matthew (2019). "Stephen Kotkin. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941". The American Historical Review. 124 (1): 376–377. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy475.
  49. Scheibert, P. (1974). "Reviewed Work: Lenin: Genesis and Development of a Revolutionary. by Rolf H. W. Theen, Walter Kaufmann". Slavic Review. 33 (2): 349–350. doi: 10.2307/2495806 . JSTOR   2495806.
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