Choose what Soviet book I'll obtain and scan in January

[Ismail]

A user has offered to send me a Soviet book this month (a compilation of Marx and Engels on proletarian revolution) and another the next month. I'd like the second book to be voted on 'cause DEMOCRACY or something.

How it works is simple: you ogle at the list of books below and choose up to three of them you'd like to see scanned. Voting ends on January 1. If the winning book is bought out by some random human being before that date (these are fairly cheap books after all) then the second entry in the list is chosen.

* The Soviet Court (1973)
* Developing Nations at the Turn of Millennium (1987)
* Lenin the Great Theoretician (1970)
* The Races of Mankind (1966)
* Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980)
* The Fundamentals of Political Economy (1983)
* Soviet Financial System (1966)
* Political Economy: Capitalism (1977)
* Political Economy: Socialism (1977)
* Cultural Changes in Developing Countries (1976)
* An ABC of Planning (1982)
* The Soviet Peasantry: An Outline History (1917-1970) (1975)
* The Life and Death of Martin Luther King (1981)
* Logic (1989, on the philosophical concept)
* Essays in Contemporary History, 1946-1990 (1990)
* The Soviet Political System under Developed Socialism (1977)
* Culture and Perestroika (1988)
* Socialist Society: Scientific Principles of Development (1971)
* Manpower Resources and Population Under Socialism (1979)
* The First Soviet Government: The True Story of the Russian Revolution and the Building of Socialism (1982)
* The Soviet Parliament (A Reference Book) (1967)
* History of the Usa Since World War I (1976)
* The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia: How the Old Intelligentsia Was Drawn Into the Building of Socialism (1975)
* The Great October Socialist Revolution (1977, official history textbook)
* The Bolshevik Party and the Democratic Revolution in Russia; the First Russian Revolution and the Period of Reaction (1905-1910) (1975)
* The Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the Eve of the October Revolution, March-October, 1917 (1971)
* Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965 (1979)
* The Overseas Expansion of Capital: Past and Present (1985)
* On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State (Lenin compilation, 497 pages)
* History of Religion (1989)
* Cities without Crisis (1976, CPUSA journalist reporting on Soviet cities, put out by Soviet publishing house)
* Are our Moscow Reporters Giving Us the Facts About the USSR? (1981, another CPUSA journalist work put out by Soviet publishing house)
* The International Working Class Movement, Problems of History and Theory: Volume 1, The Origins of the Proletariat and Its Evolution as a Revolutionary Class (1980)
* Communist Morality (1962)
* What Is the Working People's Power? (1986, on Soviet government)
* Amadeo Bordiga: The Greatest Life Ever Lived (1991, 6412 pages)

The list of books myself and others have already scanned (nothing on that list obviously) can be found here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.co m%22&sort=-publicdate

[Sinister Intents]

Communist morality!

[Redistribute the Rep]

* Logic (1989, on the philosophical concept)
* History of the Usa Since World War I (1976)
* The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia: How the Old Intelligentsia Was Drawn Into the Building of Socialism (1975)

These look interesting

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

Culture and perestroika

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Actually, I'm curious....have you ever thought of maybe doing some Soviet fiction? I know you're mostly focused on non-fiction and theory, but there's alot of great Soviet-era fiction that has yet to be translated and scanned for english readers.

[Ismail]

Actually, I'm curious....have you ever thought of maybe doing some Soviet fiction? I know you're mostly focused on non-fiction and theory, but there's alot of great Soviet-era fiction that has yet to be translated and scanned for english readers.Well if it's yet to be translated then I can't help you. The Soviets did put out a bunch of novels in English and other languages throughout the 60s-80s, but I still think that non-fiction books take priority.

[adipocere12]

Actually, I'm curious....have you ever thought of maybe doing some Soviet fiction? I know you're mostly focused on non-fiction and theory, but there's alot of great Soviet-era fiction that has yet to be translated and scanned for english readers.


I only know "how the steel was tempered ". What others would you recommend?

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

I only know "how the steel was tempered ". What others would you recommend?

Well, there's alot of great Soviet sci-fi and children's literature that has almost never seen translation into english. The Strugatsky Bros, for example, have only recently started to have their works available again in english.

But there are also writers like Kir Bulychev's Alisa Selezneva series, which are science fiction books for young people, or Sergey Snegov's space opera trilogy Humans As Gods.

[consuming negativity]

* The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia: How the Old Intelligentsia Was Drawn Into the Building of Socialism (1975)
* The Great October Socialist Revolution (1977, official history textbook)
* Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965 (1979)

there are actually like 7 or 8 that sound like they're worth reading but if i don't go ahead and just choose three to vote for i won't ever get around to voting

i like the first one because it talks about non-communist elements of society being usurped into the soviet state and the entire idea of that transformation and how it specifically happened in different circumstances seems interesting from an outside and pragmatic stance

the second one is more a perspective sort of thing insofar as it is a view of the october revolution that is being pushed by the soviet government but in the latter years of the ussr. also i'd like to be able to just see a soviet textbook just to see what's there

the third is also a perspective sort of thing; i'm interesting in hearing about the history of the labor movement in that time period anyway, and hearing it from a soviet author who is probably writing from a left-wing perspective seems like it has potential to be really informative in a variety of ways

[Creative Destruction]

* Marx, Engels, Lenin: On Historical Materialism (1976, compilation of their writings, 750 pages)

[Ismail]

also i'd like to be able to just see a soviet textbook just to see what's thereFor what it's worth here's a short excerpt from a 1988 10th grade East German civics textbook: http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/sbk.htm

Also there was a Marx-Engels-Lenin compilation on anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism which is 400 pages, but the cheap copies got bought out so I couldn't put it in the original list.

[Brutus]

* Marx, Engels, Lenin: On Historical Materialism (1976, compilation of their writings, 750 pages)

Ditto

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

What Is the Working People's Power? (1986, on Soviet government)
This one sounds interesting.

[G4b3n]

The International Working Class Movement, Problems of History and Theory: Volume 1, The Origins of the Proletariat and Its Evolution as a Revolutionary Class (1980)

Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980)

Both sound very interesting.

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

1. Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965 (1979)

2. The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia: How the Old Intelligentsia Was Drawn Into the Building of Socialism (1975

3. Culture and Perestroika (1988)

4. The Soviet Parliament (A Reference Book) (1967)

[JahLemon]

Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980)

[Leftsolidarity]

* Soviet Financial System (1966)

I would enjoy giving that a read.

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

* Developing Nations at the Turn of Millennium (1987)
* Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980)
* Soviet Financial System (1966)
* Cultural Changes in Developing Countries (1976)
* The Soviet Peasantry: An Outline History (1917-1970) (1975)
* The Overseas Expansion of Capital: Past and Present (1985)
* Communist Morality (1962)

These are most interesting IMHO.

[Rafiq]

History of Religion or the Races of Mankind. I'm not so much interested in the direct information derived from the latter, but overall attitudes towards the idea of 'race' in the Soviet Union.

[Ismail]

These are most interesting IMHO.Any three you'd like to pick in particular? Otherwise I'll just pick from the top three you quoted.

[synthesis]

History of Religion looks pretty interesting. There's something on Google that can derive text from the scans, right?

[Durruti's friend]

* An ABC of Planning (1982)
* The Soviet Peasantry: An Outline History (1917-1970) (1975)
* Marx, Engels, Lenin: On Historical Materialism (1976, compilation of their writings, 750 pages)

These pls

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

Any three you'd like to pick in particular? Otherwise I'll just pick from the top three you quoted.
I'll stick with these then;
* Cultural Changes in Developing Countries (1976)
* The Overseas Expansion of Capital: Past and Present (1985)
and (on second thought) pick this one instead:
* History of Religion (1989)
Cheers!

[Ismail]

Turns out that the compilation of Marx, Engels and Lenin writings on historical materialism is already online and can be found here: http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=62CCD0E73FA1B890A97093EA0820A135

For that reason I removed it from the list. People who voted it are free to pick another work.

[Asero]

Definately Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980)

My dad's a psychiatrist. He'd probably like it, maybe. After reading Mao: the Untold Story, he believes that Mao's personally philosophy was that killing people is good and Mao wanted to kill more people because killing people is good. He also believes that Mao was an absolute pragmatist who only cared about himself, who only did things because all he wanted was power and he got off on killing people. God, that book's terrible.

I've told him the book's terrible, but he just doesn't believe me.

[Ismail]

Voting has ended.

The results:

* The Races of Mankind (1966) 31
* History of the USA Since World War I (1976) 27
* History of Religion (1989) 18
* Communist Morality (1962) 18
* The Life and Death of Martin Luther King (1981) 14
* Soviet Financial System (1966) 14
* The Soviet Court (1973) 13
* An ABC of Planning (1982) 13
* Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980) 12
* The Soviet Peasantry: An Outline History (1917-1970) (1975) 11
* Cities without Crisis (1976, CPUSA journalist reporting on Soviet cities, put out by Soviet publishing house) 9
* On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State (Lenin compilation, 497 pages) 9
* Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965 (1979) 8
* Logic (1989, on the philosophical concept) 7
* Essays in Contemporary History, 1946-1990 (1990) 7
* Socialist Society: Scientific Principles of Development (1971) 7
* The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia: How the Old Intelligentsia Was Drawn Into the Building of Socialism (1975) 6
* Political Economy: Socialism (1977) 6
* The Overseas Expansion of Capital: Past and Present (1985) 6
* Culture and Perestroika (1988) 6
* The Fundamentals of Political Economy (1983) 6
* Lenin the Great Theoretician (1970) 5
* What Is the Working People's Power? (1986, on Soviet government) 5
* Are our Moscow Reporters Giving Us the Facts About the USSR? (1981, another CPUSA journalist work put out by Soviet publishing house) 5
* Cultural Changes in Developing Countries (1976) 5
* The Soviet Political System under Developed Socialism (1977) 5
* Manpower Resources and Population Under Socialism (1979) 4
* Political Economy: Capitalism (1977) 4
* The International Working Class Movement, Problems of History and Theory: Volume 1, The Origins of the Proletariat and Its Evolution as a Revolutionary Class (1980) 4
* The Great October Socialist Revolution (1977, official history textbook) 4
* Developing Nations at the Turn of Millennium (1987) 3
* The Soviet Parliament (A Reference Book) (1967) 3
* The Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the Eve of the October Revolution, March-October, 1917 (1971) 2
* The First Soviet Government: The True Story of the Russian Revolution and the Building of Socialism (1982) 2
* The Bolshevik Party and the Democratic Revolution in Russia; the First Russian Revolution and the Period of Reaction (1905-1910) (1975) 1

A total of 170 people voted from 14 different places. RevLefters made up 8% of that amount.

I duly emailed the person who will obtain the top two books and he replied: "It would be difficult to [buy them] this month as I've already spent a lot on buying some Vietnam books from the 'Gioi publishers'. So I can send the first one next month -- i.e. in Feb -- and the second one in March." So yeah.

[Redistribute the Rep]

I was hoping for the intelligentsia one