What Books Are There On The Dictatorship of the Proletariat?

[Aleister Granger]

What are some good ones?

Literary or otherwise, I mean. I know it's not a very well known phenomenon, but I'm sure someone has written about it.
Oh, and please do NOT reference the Dark Knight Rises
Not because of the liberal-tarian theme of Rich Guy Is The Only Good Guy but because of the goddamn shaky camera work

[Remus Bleys]

This is a topic I'm interested in too.

Its funny, just as i was browsing through revleft I was reading these.
State and Revolution (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/)
Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/oct/30.htm)(I wonder how many so called "anti-revisionists have read this)

Both by Lenin.


Anyway, other users that are more knowledgeable than I on the subject should have sources on this (hopefully). Many say the Critique of the Goth Program, though that seems to only sparingly mention the DotP.

[Aleister Granger]

Just skimming through this forum and I found this
http://www.revleft.com/vb/former-people-final-t181690/index.html

Looked it up and it sounds fascinating

http://www.amazon.com/Former-People-Final-Russian-Aristocracy/dp/0374157618

Though full of bourgeois apologism, I think any book that makes me feel sorry for the bourgeoisie without convincing me that they deserve to rule is worth reading so it'd better be like that

Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin’s Russia. Filled with chilling tales of looted palaces and burning estates, of desperate flights in the night from marauding peasants and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution, it is the story of how a centuries’-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the Tsar and Empire, and its promotion of the arts and culture, was dispossessed and destroyed along with the rest of old Russia.

Yet Former People is also a story of survival and accommodation, of how many of the tsarist ruling class—so-called “former people” and “class enemies”—overcame the psychological wounds inflicted by the loss of their world and decades of repression as they struggled to find a place for themselves and their families in the new, hostile order of the Soviet Union. Chronicling the fate of two great aristocratic families—the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns—it reveals how even in the darkest depths of the terror, daily life went on.

Told with sensitivity and nuance by acclaimed historian Douglas Smith, Former People is the dramatic portrait of two of Russia’s most powerful aristocratic families, and a sweeping account of their homeland in violent transition.

Immediate buy
Though


Absorbing . . . How could one ever think that these people were monsters? They were gallant souls; and Smith’s book memorialises them beautifully.
Because spitting on peasants and workers and believing that their role in society is to be a rusty cog in your machine makes you a saint deserving only of praise and eternal glory... Yeah, no. Still buying

[bcbm]

'nineteen eighty four'

[Aleister Granger]

'nineteen eighty four'

Nah, that's just a regular dictatorship.