Enjoy! :marx-ok:
copying over so I can find it in my comments later:
I figure some here may find it neato. Here's a link.
Over a thousand works have been scanned thus far, most of them published in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to as late as 1991. There are books scanned by other persons as well who are part of the same project of putting old Soviet/Marxist works online, e.g. works by Al Szymanski.
The books that aren't from the USSR are mostly from International Publishers and similar publishing houses (with their permission), or from countries with similarities to the USSR like the GDR, Poland, and what have you.
If anyone would like to donate for us to buy and scan more books, here's a PayPal link.
Considering 800 works is a lot to wade through, I've been making lists of books by subject to help navigate (and will make further lists eventually, e.g. books on/about Soviet foreign policy):\
- Marxist works on US history\
- Works on international working-class movement (including First, Second, and Third Internationals)\
- Works on histories of countries\
- Soviet and pro-Soviet works related to World War II\
- Books on Soviet foreign policy\
- Soviet and other works on Africa\
- Marxism-Leninism introductory reading list\
- Compilations of writings by Marx, Engels, and Lenin on specific subjects\
- Marxist works on philosophy and ethics\
- Marxist works on religion\
- 1960s-80s Soviet works on China, Mao, and/or Maoism
Holy shit this is incredible. What a goldmine. Thanks for sharing.
:marx-hi: There's lighter reading to get started with. If you start with the Manifesto, you're already a step ahead of :jordan-eboy-peterson: and his supposed "20 year study" of such things.
I love it. Reading Armed Intervention in Russia: 1918-1922 right now, its great
you can find him on eregime as 'Ismail', he's very knowledgable in Hoxha's Albanian as well
No cookbooks.
:soviet-pout:
I read through some of the cookbooks before/during/after WWII for Germany and the US for a class once and I always wanted to read the USSR, Chinese, and Japanese ones. I guess none were translated at the time?
Book of Tasty and Healthy Food: Iconic Cookbook of the Soviet Union
Enjoy, you can find it on libgen
I used to pirate a shitload of math books, and one great place was nozdr.ru
You have to use Google translate or something to navigate it, but they also had a pretty big cache of Soviet history books. I don’t remember if any were in English, but if anyone has the time to investigate I’m reminded of if
Foner's 10-volume Labor History and RW Davies' Volumes on the Industrialization of the Soviet Union aren't light reading, but they're essential reference material.
