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Trying to find a book or two to read up on Soviet history, and that means total history, from Revolution to Collapse.
I don't want any capitalist mouthpieces, but neutral, unbiased sources will be accepted, along with pro-leftist ones.
Soviet Union 1
Eye-witness reports, histories and analyses of the Soviet Union under four headings: Education, Health Care, Labour and Women.
The above link cannot be considered as a History though.
I think this should be as much neutral as possible.
It is possible to build gigantic factories according to a ready-made Western pattern by bureaucratic command – although, to be sure, at triple the normal cost. But the farther you go, the more the economy runs into the problem of quality, which slips out of the hands of a bureaucracy like a shadow. The Soviet products are as though branded with the gray label of indifference. Under a nationalized economy, quality demands a democracy of producers and consumers, freedom of criticism and initiative – conditions incompatible with a totalitarian regime of fear, lies and flattery.
-Trotsky
Marx & Engels ! Lenin ! Trotsky
At my faculity we use Guizeppe Boffa's History of the USSR, and Isaac Deutscher's biographies of Stalin and Trotsky (for the early period).
Besides, what qualifies as "non biased"?
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Heroic Struggle, Bitter Defeat is excellent
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yea sorry man but you ain't gonna find anything unbiased everyone throws a bit of their opinion into any writing.
History of the communist party of the Soviet Union;
Example of the book
My Journey to the Soviet Union - Samantha Smith;
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-Soviet-Union...h/dp/0316801763
If you're serious, you have to start with John Reed's "Ten Days That Shook The World"
"Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't." - Harvey Pekar
