1. The Abolition of the State
   Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
2. After Stalinism: An Exchange
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1999
   I FOUND SUSAN Weissman's piece “The Russian Revolution Revisited” (ATC 75, July/August 1998) a refreshingly readable synopsis of a complex historical problem. While I agree with most of her analysis (with one exception noted), I do not think her conclusion follows from this analysis.
   
3. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   
4. Age of Extremes 
   The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994   Published: 1997
   A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
5. The Age of Permanent Revolution
   A Trotsky Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1964
   A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
6. American Communism and Soviet Russia
   The Formative Period
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1960   Published: 1986
   A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
7. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003
   An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
8. Bolshevism and Stalinism 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1947
   From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
9. The Canadian Left 
   A Critical Analysis
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1977
   The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
10. The Contradiction of Trotsky
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1948
    It was worth examining carefully Trotsky's attitude at the dawn of Stalinism, for it enables us to elucidate the (theoretical) policy to which he adhered until his death. I have said that Trotsky represented, between 1923 and 1927, the contradictions of Bolshevism. I should now add that he never emerged from this divided situation. Subsequently he transported into the domain of revolutionary theory the contradiction in which he had become objectively enclosed. Of course, he was forced by events to perceive the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism, but he was not capable of taking an overall view of the new Stalinist society and of defining it.
11. Deutscher, Isaac - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    
12. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
13. The Fourth International, Stalinism and the Origins of the International Socialists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    
14. From Lenin to Stalin 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1937   Published: 1973
    A fascinating, first-hand account of the Stalinist takeover in Russia.
15. Germany East
    Dissent and Opposition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An overview of oppositional movements in East Germany, ranging from the 1953 insurrection to the oppositional movements of the 1908s.
16. Heretics and Renegades
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1969
    Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
17. In Memoriam: Beloved Chairman Mao
    A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    A Long, Long Life to Chairman Mao.
18. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
19. The Life and Death of Stalinism
    A Resurrection of Marxist Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A leftwing analysis of Stalinism.
20. Mao as a Dialectician
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
    
21. A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
22. A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
23. A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
24. A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
25. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
26. The Nature of Stalinist Russia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1948
    There is an unbridgeable antagonism between the definition of Russia as a degenerated workers' state and fundamental elements of Marxism, such as, to take one example, the self-mobilisation and self-conscious action of the masses as a necessary element for the socialist revolution.
    
27. Obsolete Communism
    The Left-Wing Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1969
    An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
28. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
    
29. Our Generation
    Volume 19 Number 1
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    
30. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
31. The Question of Stalin
    Resource Type: Article
    Colletti explores the contradictions of Bolshevism as the vanguard party which constructed a powerful state apparatus to manage the socialist relations of production while abandoning the development of socialist democracy.
32. A Question of Torture
    CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Chronicles the US government's use of terror as a political instrument
33. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
34. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
35. The Russian Revolution in Retreat
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The relationship between “Leninism” and Stalinism has been a highly controversial topic between the political left and right as well as within the left itself. The “totalitarian” school of thought, historically associated with the political right and with many liberals, has held that there are no qualitative differences between the two regimes and that the main source of Stalinism was the Bolshevik ideology and politics that existed before the October Revolution.
36. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
37. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
38. The Socialist Register 1968
    Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1968
    
39. The Socialist Register 1973
    Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
40. The Socialist Register 1975
    Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975
    
41. The Socialist Register 1976
    Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
42. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
43. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
44. Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1941
    Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
45. Stalin and German Communism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1949
    
46. Stalin, Marxism-Leninism and the Left
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    
47. Stalin and Trotsky (World Revolution for Beginners Part II) 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Last week, we were talking about Lenin and Luxemburg, and I was trying to work up some notes for today; I just realize that the topic of Stalin and Trotsky is far more complicated. Why? First of all, because it was in this period that Bolshevism became an international phenomenon.
48. Stalin's Frame-Up System and the Moscow Trials (Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1951
    Trotsky's own indignation over the Moscow Trials, although understandable since they were directed against his followers and fellow-oppositionists, was nevertheless inconsistent with his own political outlook and conception of dictatorship. The terroristic system he came to bewail was after all originally headed by Lenin and Trotsky, and was proudly defended by the latter in his book Terrorism and Communism.
49. State Capitalism in Russia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1948   Published: 1974
    
50. Theories of Stalinism
    Against The Current vol. 143
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Karl Marx and his comrades deemed their own approach “scientific,” as compared to “utopian” intellectual efforts on behalf of socialism, because they believed that practical efforts to challenge and ultimately replace capitalism with something better must be grounded in a serious study of economic, political, social, historical realities and dynamics.

Experts on Stalinismus in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive