Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Important Books - Communism Books

The books in this section are divided into two categories. First are books that examine the phenomenon of Communism generally -- its history, tenets, varieties, and legacy. Next is a section on McCarthyism, the Red Scare, and Soviet espionage in the U.S. during the Cold War.


Communism:
Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum

The Great Terror: A Reassessment
Robert Conquest,

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Edited by Stephane Courtois et al.

The Cold War: A New History
John Lewis Gaddis

The American Communist Movement: Storming Heaven Itself
By John Earl Haynes

The Secret World of American Communism
By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov

The Soviet World of American Communism
By John Earl Haynes, et al

From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States
By Paul Hollander

Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It
By J. Edgar Hoover

The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America's Future
By David Horowitz

Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey
By David Horowitz

Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties
By Peter Collier & David Horowitz

Dictatorships and Double Standards: Rationalism and Reason in Politics
Jeane Kirkpatrick

The God that Failed
By Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler

Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown
By Leszek Kolakowski

The Cause That Failed: Communism in American Political Life
By Guenter Lewy

Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia
By Martin Malia

Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
Joshua Muravchik

Marx's Religion of Revolution: Regeneration Through Chaos
By Gary North

Communism: A History
By Richard Pipes

Communism: The Vanished Specter
By Richard Pipes

Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism 1917-1923
By Richard Pipes

Property and Freedom
By Richard Pipes

Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime
Richard Pipes

The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive
By Richard Pipes

Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left
By Ronald Radosh

Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
David Remnick

When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood
Said Sayrafiezadeh

Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov

The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Marxism: Philosophy and Economics
By Thomas Sowell


McCarthyism, Red Scare, & Domestic Subversion:

McCarthy and His Enemies
By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell

Witness
By Whittaker Chambers

Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
By Ann Coulter

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
By M. Stanton Evans

In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage
By John Earl Haynes

Red Scare or Red Menace?: American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era
By John Earl Haynes

Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB In America
By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev

Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr

Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
By David Horowitz

The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors
By Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel

Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley
By Steven T. Usdin

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