1. After Stalinism: An Exchange
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1999
   I FOUND SUSAN Weissman's piece “The Russian Revolution Revisited” (ATC 75, July/August 1998) a refreshingly readable synopsis of a complex historical problem. While I agree with most of her analysis (with one exception noted), I do not think her conclusion follows from this analysis.
   
2. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   
3. Age of Extremes
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
4. The Age of Permanent Revolution
   A Trotsky Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1964
   A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
5. American Communism and Soviet Russia
   The Formative Period
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1986
   A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
6. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2003
   An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
7. Bolshevism and Stalinism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1947
   From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
8. The Canadian Left
   A Critical Analysis
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
9. The Contradiction of Trotsky
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1948
   It was worth examining carefully Trotsky's attitude at the dawn of Stalinism, for it enables us to elucidate the (theoretical) policy to which he adhered until his death. I have said that Trotsky represented, between 1923 and 1927, the contradictions of Bolshevism. I should now add that he never emerged from this divided situation. Subsequently he transported into the domain of revolutionary theory the contradiction in which he had become objectively enclosed. Of course, he was forced by events to perceive the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism, but he was not capable of taking an overall view of the new Stalinist society and of defining it.
10. Deutscher, Isaac - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    
11. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
12. The Essential Stalin
    Major Theoretical Writings 1905-1952
    Resource Type: Book
    
13. The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
14. From Lenin to Stalin
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
15. From Lenin to Stalin: Book Review
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 1973
    A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
16. Germany East
    Dissent and Opposition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    An overview of oppositional movements in East Germany, ranging from the 1953 insurrection to the oppositional movements of the 1908s.
17. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
18. In Memoriam: Beloved Chairman Mao
    A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao.
19. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
20. The Life and Death of Stalinism
    A Resurrection of Marxist Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A leftwing analysis of Stalinism.
21. Mao as a Dialectician
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
22. A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
23. A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
24. A Marxist History of the World part 84: State Capitalism in Russia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's party-state apparatus had become the dominant force in Russian society. A bureaucratic ruling class was formed, and all forms of dissent and resistance were treated as crimes against the state
25. A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
26. A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
27. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
28. The Nature of Stalinist Russia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1948
    There is an unbridgeable antagonism between the definition of Russia as a degenerated workers' state and fundamental elements of Marxism, such as, to take one example, the self-mobilisation and self-conscious action of the masses as a necessary element for the socialist revolution.
    
29. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
30. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
31. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1969
    
32. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
    
33. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
34. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
35. Situationist International Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
36. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
37. The Socialist Register 1968
    Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1968
    
38. The Socialist Register 1973
    Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
    
39. The Socialist Register 1975
    Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1975
    
40. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    
41. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
42. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
43. Stalin
    A Political Biography
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
44. Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1941
    Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
45. Stalin and German Communism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1949
    
46. Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
47. State Capitalism in Russia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
48. Trotsky
    A Documentary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    An illustrated biography of Leon Trotsky.

Experts on Stalinism in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive