This is the first of my series of letters dealing with the common characteristics of pure communism, which is the ideology of such past and present regimes such as the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies, Red China, Vietnam, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Castro's Cuba, etc.
This letter will list 23 of the 72 sources of information that readers of the Times-Union can use if they want to research this subject for themselves. The actual listing of common characteristics of pure communism will follow at later dates.
Most of the following books listed below are available at the Warsaw Community Public Library.
1. The Communist Manifesto (1988 edition)
2. Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy (1999 edition)
3. Communism: A History (2001)
4. Marxism: Philosophy and Economics (1985)
5. Main Currents of Marxism (2005)
6. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (1999)
7. Basic Communism: Its Rise, Spread, and Debacle in the 20th Century (1990)
8. Communism, pages 402-409: The New Encyclopedia Brittanica Macropedia Volume 27 (2007)
9. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire (1999)
10. The KGB: Masters of the Soviet Union (?)
11. Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder since 1917 (1990)
12. Russia under the Bolshevik Regime (1994)
13. The Soviet Union: A Country Study (1991)
14. Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (1997)
15. The Fall of Yugoslavia: Why Communism Failed (1997)
16. China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder since 1990 (1991)
17. China: 100 Years of Revolution (1983)
18. A Short History of Chinese Communism (1967)
19. The World's Hotspots: North Korea (2004)
20. Vietnam: A Country Study (1989)
21. The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 (1996)
