Book Reccomendations

[Orange Juche]

I need recommendations on good books I could just go pick up at a book store to learn about the following:

-The USSR Pre-stalin, how things were working, the conditions for people.
-Trotsky, what he did, and what he believed in
-General socialist/communist ideology
-Anything else good that will help me broaden what I know in regards to socialism/communism/anarchism and the theories behind them.

[Orange Juche]

Oops... just realized that I forgot theres a literature section. Sorry I put it in here!

[shadowed by the secret police]

For communist theory check out Lenin's The State and Revolution

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Trotsky - My Life
Trotsky - The REvolution Betrayed

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I forgot to mention Rudolf Rocker's book Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

http://www.amazon.com/Anarcho-Syndicalism-...ie=UTF8&s=books (http://www.amazon.com/Anarcho-Syndicalism-Theory-Practice-Working-Classics/dp/1902593928/sr=1-1/qid=1169218981/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-0908381-6976169?ie=UTF8&s=books)

Anton Pannekoek's Workers' Councils

http://www.amazon.com/Workers-Councils-Ant...ie=UTF8&s=books (http://www.amazon.com/Workers-Councils-Anton-Pannekoek/dp/1902593561/sr=1-1/qid=1169218902/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0908381-6976169?ie=UTF8&s=books)

Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism, The Last Stage of Capitalism

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia

Killing Hope by William Blum

www.killinghope.org