1. 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.
2. At the Lenin Shipyards
   Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   A first-hand account of the rise of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
3. Burying the Typewriter
   Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2012
   Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
4. Connexions Digest
   Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1990
   
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
6. Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1986
   An account of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
7. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
   New Internationalist April 1985
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1985
   A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
8. Germany 1921: The March Action
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1964
   The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
9. Hungary 1956
   Resource Type: Book
   
10. Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
11. Hungary 56 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1968
    The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
12. 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.
13. Looking for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
    
14. Main Currents of Marxism
    Volume 3: The Breakdown
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Kolakowski examines the origins and development of Stalinism, as well as the contributions of Trotsky, Gramsci, Lukacs, Marcuse, and others, and traces developments in Marxism it period after the Second World War.
15. 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.
16. A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
17. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
18. Notes from a Revolution Dying
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In June 1922, five years on from the Russian Revolution, a group of Moscow communists gathered to discuss a letter by Vladimir Petrzhek, an auto worker, tendering his resignation from the communist (or Bolshevik) party. Petrzhek was one of the worker communists who swelled the party’s ranks during the civil war of 1918-19, when the communist “Reds” had defended the revolution from the western-supported “White” generals.
19. Our History Recovered
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    For thirty-six years since its apogee in the late 1960s during the worldwide movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam, the global Left, including the Left in the United States, has been in decline. Globally, perhaps the most significant causal factor accelerating decline at the beginning of the 1990s was the collapse of the Soviet Union as a perceived alternative to dominant capitalist economic and governmental modes.
20. 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.
21. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
22. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
23. Russia in Revolution 1900-1930
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    A portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval.
24. '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.
25. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
26. Soviet Russia Masters the Comintern
    International Communism in the Era of Stalin's Ascendancy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    A documentary history.

Experts on Gouvernements communistes/Europe in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive