Stalin and Yezhov: An Extra-Paradigmatic
View: by Philip E. Panaggio. Unique analysis of the Stalin era
in the Soviet Union from a non-Marxist, non-"Totalitarian Paradigm"
perspective, incorporating new and neglected information.
Another View of Stalin
by Ludo Martins. Excellent factual analysis of
Stalinism and anti-Stalinism. (See also
On Lavrenty Beria on our Red Comrades website for
additional comments on this book.) This, along with "Stalin and Yezhov"
serve to give the reader a totally objective view of the events that transpired
during Stalin's time in the USSR.
On Lavrenty Beria:
Additional comments about Beria, Stalin's death, and related topics - this
is a strong critique, using objective logic and criteria, of subjective statements
made about Beria in "Another View of Stalin."
Turania: Another name for what most of the USSR was, this is a descriptive,
accurate picture of the alien land and climate on which the Soviet people
lived, especially the Turko-Tatar peoples that live on most of that land.
No one ne can grasp the events that happened during Lenin and Stalin's time
without understanding the landscape and geography. This is a must read to
understand this environment.
The
Road to TerrorBy J. Arch-Getty serves, with "Stalin and
Yezhov" and "Another View of Stalin" to complete the objective
picture. Arch-Getty uses logic and brings the reader back in time where things
were actually transpiring. The book might be seen as negative, or anti-Soviet
or anti-Stalin, but we feel it is quite objective in showing the mind-sets
of the times very clearly with actual documents from recently opened archives.
Stalin was a Faithful
Marxist-Leninist: A study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam
concludes that Stalin remained true to the ideal of a classless and stateless
world society until his death in 1953.
The
Moscow Trial was Fair: Contemporary and unbiased
eyewitness account of the 1936 "Show Trials" by an English
lawyer D.N. Pritt, with commentary by Pat Sloan. Full text.
NKVD Info:
Information crucial to understanding things that happened after 1953.
T.D.
Lysenko and the NKVD: On incriminating circumstantial
"evidence" cited by critics that use this to discredit the scientist
T. D. Lysenko's scientific work.
3 Main Bones of Contention:
On the real genetic vs. Lysenko controversy---nothing
more, nothing less. In short, the three main bones of contention regarding
the things T.D. Lysenko really said.
Mao and Lewontin's Error:
Discusses some crucial misconceptions that Richard Lewontin had in his essay
on Lysenko.
About Kirov and Nikolaev:
Discusses facts which tend to refute the usual explanation of Kirov's murder
(that Stalin had him killed).
In Search of a Soviet
Holocaust: Originally from the New York
Village Voice, this article exposes the lies about the supposodly
Bolshevik-engineered Ukrainian famine of 1932. Excellent mainstream
Western refutation of the undeservedly-respected propagandist Robert
Conquest's lies and distortions of history, as well an illuminating view of
the nature of anti-Soviet propaganda at that time. [Ed's note: Readers should
also consider what Western sources always neglect to mention: that around
1932 there were massive crop problems not only in the USSR, but also in India
and the USA, where the "Dust Bowl" crisis forced people to abandon
farmlands and migrate West en masse.]
Soviet POWS:
This article reveals something - and explains Stalin's supposed "suspiciousness
and paranoia" towards repatriated Russian POW's.
The Myth of Stalin's
"Demoralisation" in 1941: This article presents facts that challenge the ubiquitous
story (originally told by Nikita Krushchev) that Stalin was shocked into inaction
when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
Stalin and the Cult
of Personality: Was this Real? Extensive collection of first-hand quotes about Stalin's
personality and the "Personality Cult" - including information about
who fostered this Stalin-sycophantism, and what Stalin himself thought about
it.
Statement of the Kaganovich
Family: Official statement by the family of
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich addressing the fabrication of a book considered
an important source on Kaganovich in the West.
