Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon dramatises the Moscow show trials and the elimination of the Bolshevik old guard by "No.1" In the Fatherland of Revolution. Told…
The case of comrade Tulayev - Victor Serge Masterful fictionalisation of the purges and how they affected the various character types in the political upheaval of Stalinist Russia.
Czechoslovakia 1968: What socialism? What human face? - Petr Cerny Excellent pamphlet from Solidarity with a critique of the myth of the Prague Spring. It recounts the…
The Makhnovshchina and Anti-Semitism- Nestor Makhno A series of complaints about the pervasiveness of the allegations that the Makhnovschina where anti semitic and a list of the efforts gone to to disprove them.
The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks- Nestor Makhno Eight years after the Russian Revolution rival leaders of the Bolshevik party attack the very idea…
Kronstadt 1917-21: The fate of a soviet democracy - Israel Getzler This is the first major study of revolutionary Kronstadt to span the period from February 1917 to…
Soviet Union, China and other Stalinisms - reading guide Further reading guide about "state socialist" countries. Unlike many books on Stalinist societies,…
The Master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov The devil comes to destroy the USSR, and only a writer and his lover can stop him.
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin In a country constructed of glass, under complete surveillance and devoid of individuality, D-503 discovers he has a soul and is now in danger.
Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov A scientist implants the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man into a stray dog, creating a monster. A damning critique of the…
