Communism, as a school of thought, has been the most influeial reflection of philosophy in the real world. This ideology has inspired the revolutions, overturned the royal families, and has left both a sophisticated legacy of horror and hope. Thinking that the books of communism have left such a legacy really change our view to the amou of power and influence of the books.
If you are looking for a book about communism, there are many choices. A study area – which is also the main study area – is the study of Marx and Engels’ works. By studying works such as “Capital”, communism can be understood as root. Another field of study is the method of implemeing communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and other couries, which is much described in the form of Nadestan’s historical and analytical books. Another field of study, perhaps the most attractive, is the study of novels that live in communist governmes. The good thing about communist literature is that desire or unwaed, it removes this ideology from the world of thought and records people’s real sense of living in a communist society.
In the following, we have iroduced some of the most importa books of communism that will be ieresting to read for those who are curious about this ideology.
Basic books for understanding communism
To understand the true understanding of communism – as a theory and as a historical force – it is best to start reading from basic texts that formed the main ideas. The three main faces that were effective in forming communism (in its original form) are Carl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, and the works we will iroduce below are all written by these three.
1. Communist Manus, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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This short, but influeial dissertation, published in Year 2, is a starting poi for communism. In this dissertation, the main ideas of communism, namely the history of class divisions, the critique of the capitalist system, and the revolutionary role of the Labor Party, are summarized and useful. This text is stressful, sensible and pragmatic, and so it is a good start to eer the world of communism.
2. Capital, the effect of Carl Marx
Release Year: 1 to 2
Das Kapital, by Carl Marx, is one of the most importa books of communism in history and Karl Marx’s most importa work. In this long and multi -formal book, Marx has deeply described the work of the capitalist system, the coradictions behind it, and its inevitable instability. Although it is a heavy and abstract work, and in some parts, it is full of data that is not available to the modern audience, reading it is esseial to understand the philosophical and economic foundation of communism.
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1. Socialism: Ideal and Scieific, by Friedrich Engels
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“Socialism: Utopian and Scieific) is a short and stressful suppleme for Marx’s writings in which Engels is between the ideas of” idealistic “or” utopia “the initial socialism and” scieific socialism “of Marx. This book establishes a good link between abstract theorizing and pragmatic political strategy.
1. Governme and Revolution, by Vladimir Lenin
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In The State and Revolution, Lenin updates Marx’s theory according to the eves of the 5th ceury. In this book, he states that the existence of revolutionary leaders is esseial to prepare society to achieve communism, and he describes the mechanism of a socialist state before becoming a communist society. “State and the Revolution” is esseial for understanding communism – as it was implemeed in the Soviet Union.
1. Family root, personal real estate and governme, by Friedrich Engels
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In “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and The State”, Engels describes the evolution of society from the perspective of historical materialism, explaining how the family structure, personal ownership, and social classes emerged, and how they can be structured in the future.
These five books describe the foundation of communism, and anyone who was to understand the motivation, logic and goals behind this moveme must read them.
Cognition of Communism through Literature: Iroducing the Best Books
Political theories founded the foundation of the philosophical philosophy of communism, but it is the literature that has given it life. Communist books consist of many novels, memoirs and books in which writers – sometimes based on first -category experiences – have recorded human experiences behind ideological systems. Communist literary works have been written from the perspective of differe people: believers in communism, critics of Communism, and merely those who are stuck somewhere in the wheel of history and do not know what they themselves believe.
The following are some of the most importa books of communism in the field of novels and literature.
1. One day of the life of Ivan Danisic, Alexander Sologenitsin (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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Located in one of Stalin’s forced labor camps, this short novel preses a black and shocking image of these camps, with its numerous descriptions of one of these prisoners’ life. Ivan Danisic, the main character of the novel, is a simple man who only tries to survive the cold, hunger and forced meal stress. One of the amazing aspects of the novel is that everything looks very normal. There is no news in the book of melodrama and peak pois; This novel is about the resistance from the beginning to the end. Prior to the publication of the novel, the Soviet Union had not allowed Gulag to be depicted with such a cruel honesty and created a cultural earthquake in the Soviet Union.
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2. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak)
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Dr. Zhivago is a novel whose narrative scale is epic and emotional depth is very iimate and personal and located during the Russian Communist Revolution. Its story is about a poet-doctor whose personal tendencies coradict the cruel essence of the revolution. In this novel, Pasternak depicts the Russian Revolution as a dignified jerk to equality, but on the other hand it shows that it was such a great force that it crushed many people’s lives and aspirations. The smuggling novel took out of the Soviet Union and published in the west. The novel was so welcomed that for his author Pasternak brought the Nobel Prize for Literature, creating iernational coroversy and under the magnification of Pasterenak in the Soviet Union.
Dr. Givago is one of the romaic and epic films of the Hollywood Golden Age, which is probably the most famous illustration of the Russian Revolution.
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1. Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bolgakov (The Master and Margarita by Mikhaail Bulgakov)
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“Mard and Margarita” is a novel that shows that the highest level of suffocation is nurturing the highest creativity. The novel occurs in two differe areas, one in the 1980s and the other in Jerusalem in the life of Jesus Christ. In the Moscow of the 1980s, the devil’s fascination, along with a group of strange characters (such as a cat, a professional killer and a vampire woman) to Moscow, who is officially at The novel is a combination of several genres: political jokes, religious drama and love story. Bolgakov’s goal was to combine the ridicule of life in the Soviet Union with the allegory of the sacred book and the surreal humor and to criticize the suffocating system using imaginary elemes. The fact that the novel was not published for decades after the author’s writing and death has not made it more legendary.
1. Mother, Maxim Gorky effect (Mother by Maxim Gorky)
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For a long time, the Soviet Union had only one formal literary moveme and expected writers to write only this style. It was the Socialist Realism moveme and was aimed at showing the concerns of the lower cortex with a realistic approach. Published before the Russian Communist Revolution, “Mother” is the first novel of the great socialist realism, and Maxim Gorky was the most importa author of the style, and no list of communism books without her name is complete. The novel is located in the early days of the Russian labor moveme and tells the story of Plaageya Nilovna, a working -class woman who is originally merely a quiet and talkative mother, but becomes a revolutionary and concerned woman. The novel was somehow the wake of the workers. The reason for the influence of the novel is that, in the Gurki -based prose, we see a woman who, in a collective concern, finds the meaning of her life and becomes empowered, even despite the growing danger and tragedy that this path has. Lenin was a fan of the novel and was translated io many languages at the time of its publication and found a sacred text in communist societies.
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1. Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman’s work
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“Life and Destiny”, often referred to as the “war and peace” of the 5th ceury and the basis for Stalingrad’s battle, is one of the deepest and most epic books of Communism. Grossman, who was once a journalist for the Soviet Union, later became a fierce critics of Stalisime. His novel is about how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union have transformed both humanity from humanity and a tool to advance ideology. The novel focuses on the Shaposhnikov family, and from their poi of view, the narrative is drawn to various places: the fro line, the forced labor camps (Gulag), the Communist Party offices, and so on, on its scale, a broad human experience of war and iegrity. One of the most influeial momes of a mother’s novel to her son is in one of the Nazi camps, which is an unforgettable image of love and transie life. When Grossman was alive, KGB stopped publishing the novel for “being threatened for Soviet power”, but copies of the novel kept secret were smuggled io the West, and the novel was published after decades, and is now one of the best novels written about human confroation.
1. We, the effect of yogoni zamiatin (we by yevgeny zamyatin)
Release Year: 1 (in English)
The dystopian novel, which dates back to the release of “A Brave New World” and “2”, was written in year 6, but was forbidden in the Soviet Union for decades. Ma was one of the best dystopian novels and a model for Orwell. The novel is located in a futuristic city that is bound by the glass walls in which logic, collective supervision, and mathematical accuracy put the first and last word. The story is about a person named D-503, a loyal engineer who transforms io a mysterious outlaw after losing. The illustration of zamiatin of a society in which the freedom of illness and the individuality of infidelity was a direct criticism of the Soviet -based authoritarianism. Although Zamaytin himself was also a revolutionary person, he gradually separated his way from the blind idealism of his day. In this novel, he showed how ideology can reduce dreams to the car and humans to my numbers.
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1. Red Cavalist, Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Year of Release: 1
The “Red Cavalist” is a poetic and cruel look at the war from the perspective of a Jewish iellectual who worked in the Soviet Army during the Soviet-Abbas war in the year 6. This short story collection, written by Isaac Babylon as a war reporter and its stories is ierconnected, transmits the ridicule of the ride on horseback riding. The narrator of the book is both a supervisor and a stranger. He is loyal to the Soviet ideology, but the cruelty he sees retakes him. His prose is concise, but precise, and the splendor is combined. You may read in a seence about a person’s skull by the sword of a cavalry, and in the next seence, a deepening about morality. This short story series aroused the anger of the Soviet affairs because it had no propaganda aspect of the system.
1. Darkness in Nimroz, Arthur Castler Effect (Darkness at noon by Arthur Koestler)
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“The darkness in the Nimroz” is still written from the perspective of a writer who once believed in communism, but Stalin’s actions regretted him! The novel about Robashov, one of the former revolutionary revolutionaries, is now arrested and being ierrogated during Stalini’s cleansing process. Robashov’s monotones in the prison cell think of the ideological coradictions that helped to spread it. This novel is a critical of stalinism and deals with one of the themes that are common in the novels in this list: that honorable ideals become an excuse for cruel acts and loyalty to the party/moveme of communism leads to the destruction of the human spirit.
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1. Joke, by Milan Kundra (The Joke by Milan Kundra)
Year of Release: 1
The “joke” is a very simple and tragic novel with a very simple theme: in a suffocating society (Communist Czech), a simple joke can destroy a human life. The main character of the novel is Ludic, a stude who is expelled from the university for writing a joke about the Communist Party and se to the forced labor camp. A few decades later, he goes back to society; With a full heart, a changed personality, and wishing for revenge. The subcutaneous ieractions of Kundera and the philosophical depth of the “joke” have made “joke” one of the most readable books of communism.
1. Red Corn, Hair Effect (Red Sorghum by Mo Yan)
Release Year: 1/4
So far we have iroduced any novel about the Soviet Union and its autonomous republics. This is not surprising, because the Soviet Union was culturally the leader of all communist couries, and the books of communism, at least, are mainly about this system. However, reading communist literature without reading works from communist couries will no longer be a complete experience. “Red Corn”, the Nobel Prize -winning author, is probably the most importa literary focus of communism in China. The novel (originally a collection of five short novels) is about three generations of a Chinese Chinese family who experience war, revolution, and their life through history. In the stories of this series, which are followed by years 1 to 2, myth, history, and realism are ruthlessly combined. Unlike Soviet Socialist realism novels, Moan has found a symbolic narrative in this book. His goal was not to praise communism, but merely to portray a world in the coext of communism, in which loyalty is shaky and pervasive, and the lands of the red corn were all.
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The most importa books of Nadestan and Research on Communism
As we meioned at the beginning of the text, the fields of study of communism are very broad, and one of the most importa is the books of narrative and research that have been trying to examine communism and its failures and successes with an academic, degree -orieed, and sometimes impartial perspective. Here are some of the most importa books in this field.
1. Golag’s Algerian Assembly, Alexander Solgenithin (The Golag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Year of Release: 1
The Golag Assembly is a multidimensional book in which the Soviet Campaign Camps, or Gulag, have been revealed through personal narratives, formal documes, and philosophical statemes. This book, which is one of the survivors of these camps, is the most importa work written about political oppression in the Soviet Union, and its publication in France has a profound impact on the Western people’s view of communism. The collapse of the Soviet Union was complicated, but if we were to find a book effective in it, it is the book of the Golag Assembly.
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2. Elemes and Elemes of Totalter Governance, The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt)
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This classic research work on the conditions for the emergence of totalitarian regimes such as the Soviet Union under the rule of Stalin and Nazi Germany. Arendt’s deep analysis of ideology, propaganda, and the destruction of individuality have made this work one of the most importa books for understanding the mechanism of communist (and fascist) totalitarianism.
1. Black Communism, edited by the Black Book of Commonism by Stéphane Courtois)
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This book (which is a selection of the texts of various authors) is a very coroversial, but influeial work in the field of communism books in which the crimes of Communist governmes are recorded around the world: from the Soviet Union and China to Cambodia and Ethiopia. The book estimates that about 5 million deaths can be attributed to communist policies and cleansing, and his accou is that in terms of human costs, communism must also be judged as brutal fascism.
Alexander Sulgenitsin has inflicted an irreparable blow to communism in the world by writing “The Gulg Assembly” and recording Soviet crimes in Gulag.
1. Mao’s Great Famine, Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter)
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The book, based on the archived information that China itself has made after decades, is a shocking research on a great famine created in China during a “big step forward” (1 to 2), killing about 2 million people. The dictator (which other books on Communism in China), in this book, illustrate how ideology, propaganda, and totalitarian rule made one of the greatest historical catastrophes.
1. Revolution from above: The collapse of the Soviet system, by David Kuts and Fred (Revolution from the Above: The Society of the Society System by David Kotz and Fred Weir)
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This book is about the collapse of the Soviet Union, but its theory is that the collapse of the system was not inevitable, but the powerful people in the deliberate system and the consciousness of the collapse. This book challenges a series of accepted narratives of the Cold War era and shows how communist governmes may collapse from within; The reason for this is not only the resistance of the people, but also the betrayals of influeial people in the system to the ideals of communism.
1. We are not regretted: North Korea’s ordinary lives, Barbara Demic (Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick)
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The tone of this book is more like a journalist report, but it has been ierviewed by a number of those who escaped from North Korea to draw an outstanding story of life in one of the last communist regimes. This book gives a personal and shocking image of ideology corol over everyday life of the people and shows how people escape and sometimes escape under the shadow of the totalitarian governme.
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1. Red famine: Stalin’s War with Ukraine, Ann Eplabam (Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum)
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This book, which its author has done a lot of research to write, is about The Holodomor, a terrible famine that took place in Ukraine between the ages of 1 and 2, and in this book, the Eplabam argume is that the Soviet regime deliberately launched it against the Ukrainian people. The book, based on recely available public information and personal stories, shows how ideology and political hatred can use hunger as a weapon against the people.
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