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Reading List

This list presents a curated selection of works by Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, alongside articles relevant to contemporary socialist struggle.

Joseph Stalin

Marxism and Its Adversaries

Anarchism or Socialism? (1907)
Liberal Hypocrites (April 1912)
Non-Party Simpletons (April 1912)
The Logic of Facts (October 1918)
Our Disagreements (January 1921)
Trotskyism or Leninism? (November 1924)
The Fight Against Right & “Ultra-Left” Deviations (January 1926)
Notes on Contemporary Themes (July 1927)
Interview: Marxism Versus Liberalism (July 1934)

The Party and Its Tasks

The Russian Social-Democratic Party & Its Immediate Tasks (November 1901)
The Proletarian Class and the Proletarian Party (January 1905)
The Party Crisis & Our Tasks (August 1909)
For the Party (March 1912)
The Party’s Tasks (December 1923)
Defects in Party Work & Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers (March 1937)

The Agrarian Question and the Peasantry

The Land to the Peasants (April 1917)
Concerning the Question of the Proletariat & the Peasantry (January 1925)
The Peasantry as an Ally of the Working Class (February 1926)
On the Grain Front (May 1928)
Concerning Questions of Agrarian Policy in the U.S.S.R. (December 1929)
Dizzy with Success (March 1930)
Work in the Countryside (January 1933)

Revolution and State Power

Conditions for the Victory of the Russian Revolution (March 1917)
A Government of Bourgeois Dictatorship (September 1917)
The Plot Against the Revolution (October 1917)
The Political Strategy & Tactics of the Russian Communists (July 1921)
The Party Before and After Taking Power (August 1921)
The Prospects (December 1921)
Concerning the Question of the Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists (March 1923)
The October Revolution and the Question of the Middle Strata (November 1923)

The National and Colonial Question

The Social-Democratic View on the National Question (September 1904)
On the Road to Nationalism (January 1913)
Against Federalism (March 1917)
The October Revolution & the National Question (November 1918)
Our Tasks in the East (March 1919)
The Policy of the Soviet Government on the National Question in Russia (October 1920)
Concerning the National Question in Yugoslavia (March 1925)
The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East (May 1925)
Talks with Students of the Sun Yat-Sen University (May 1927)

Building Socialism

The Possibility of Building Socialism in Our Country (February 1926)
On the Grain Front (May 1928)
Industrialization of the Country & the Right Deviation (November 1928)
The Tasks of Business Executives (February 1931)
New Conditions–New Tasks in Economic Construction (June 1931)
The Results of the First Five Year Plan (January 1933)
Work in the Countryside (January 1933)
Talk With Metal Producers (26 December, 1934)

Vladmir Lenin

Marxism and Its Adversaries

From Narodism to Marxism (January 1905)
Playing at Parliamentarianism (September 1905)
The Bolsheviks & the Petty Bourgeoisie (February 1907)
Cadets & Trudoviks (March 1907)
The Strength and Weakness of the Russian Revolution (April 1907)
Banality Triumphant, or S.R.’s Ape the Cadets (April 1907)
The Duma & the Russian Liberals (April 1907)
In Memory of Count Heyden (June 1907)
Notes of a Publicist (August 1907)
How the Socialist-Revolutionaries Sum Up the Revolution and How the Revolution Has Summed Them Up (January 1909)
The Last Word of Russian Liberalism (December 1909)
Against Unity–With the Liquidators (March 1912)
The Nature and Significance of Our Polemics Against the Liberals (June 1912)
Cadets & Democrats (July 1912)
Two Utopias (October 1912)
On Narodism (January 1913)
Liberal and Marxist Conceptions of the Class Struggle (May 1913)
Adventurism (June 1914)

The Party and Its Tasks

A Letter To a Comrade On Our Organizational Tasks (September 1902)
Why I Resigned From the Iskra Editorial Board (December 1903)
Party Organization & Party Literature (November 1905)
Methods of the Liquidators & Party Tasks of the Bolsheviks (November 1909)
The “Vexed” Questions of Our Party (November 1912)
What Should Not Be Copied From the German Labour Movement (April 1914)
Disruption of Unity Under Cover of Outcries for Unity (May 1914)
The Tasks of the Youth Leagues (October 1920)

The Agrarian Question and the Peasantry

The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social Democracy (August 1902)
Local Self-Government (1907)
The Economic Nature of the Agrarian Revolution (1907)
The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture (1910)
The Essence of “The Agrarian Problem in Russia” (May 1912)
New Land “Reform” Measures (August 1913)
Serf Economy in the Rural Areas (April 1914)

Revolution and State Power

The Armed Forces and the Revolution (November 1905)
The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat (June 1906)
Economic and Political Strikes (May 1912)
The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution (1916)
Constitutional Illusions (July 1917)
On Compromises (September 1917)
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (October 1917)
Draft Resolution on Freedom of the Press (November 1917)
“Democracy” and Dictatorship (January 1919)

The National and Colonial Question

The National Question in Our Programme (July 1913)
Cultural National Autonomy ( October 1913)
Has Pravda Given Proof of Bundist Separatism? (June 1913))
Centralization and Autonomy (December 1913)
Once More On the Segregation of the Schools According to Nationality (December 1913)
Corrupting the Workers with Refined Nationalism (May 1914)

Building Socialism

The Achievements and Difficulties of the Soviet Government (1919)
Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (November 1919)
New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise (August 1921)
The New Economic Policy and the Tasks of the Political Education Department (October 1921)
Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution (November 1922)

Mao Tse Tung

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