Choose what Soviet book I'll obtain and scan in January

[Ismail]

A guy I know has offered to send me a Soviet book this month (a compilation of Marx and Engels on proletarian revolution) and another book next month. I'd like the second book to be voted on 'cause DEMOCRACY or something.

How it works is simple: you look at the list of books below and choose up to three of them you'd like to see scanned. Voting ends on January 1. If the winning book is bought out by some random human being before that date (these are fairly cheap books after all) then the second entry in the list is chosen.

You can find the books I've already scanned in the past here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate (it's also where future book scans will end up)

Anyway, onto the list:

* The Soviet Court (1973)
* Developing Nations at the Turn of Millennium (1987)
* Lenin the Great Theoretician (1970)
* The Races of Mankind (1966)
* Marx, Engels, Lenin: On Historical Materialism (1976, compilation of their writings, 750 pages)
* Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980)
* The Fundamentals of Political Economy (1983)
* Soviet Financial System (1966)
* Political Economy: Capitalism (1977)
* Political Economy: Socialism (1977)
* Cultural Changes in Developing Countries (1976)
* An ABC of Planning (1982)
* The Soviet Peasantry: An Outline History (1917-1970) (1975)
* The Life and Death of Martin Luther King (1981)
* Logic (1989, on the philosophical concept)
* Essays in Contemporary History, 1946-1990 (1990)
* The Soviet Political System under Developed Socialism (1977)
* Culture and Perestroika (1988)
* Socialist Society: Scientific Principles of Development (1971)
* Manpower Resources and Population Under Socialism (1979)
* The First Soviet Government: The True Story of the Russian Revolution and the Building of Socialism (1982)
* The Soviet Parliament (A Reference Book) (1967)
* History of the Usa Since World War I (1976)
* The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia: How the Old Intelligentsia Was Drawn Into the Building of Socialism (1975)
* The Great October Socialist Revolution (1977, official history textbook)
* The Bolshevik Party and the Democratic Revolution in Russia; the First Russian Revolution and the Period of Reaction (1905-1910) (1975)
* The Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the Eve of the October Revolution, March-October, 1917 (1971)
* Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965 (1979)
* The Overseas Expansion of Capital: Past and Present (1985)
* On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State (Lenin compilation, 497 pages)
* History of Religion (1989)
* Cities without Crisis (1976, CPUSA journalist reporting on Soviet cities, put out by Soviet publishing house)
* Are our Moscow Reporters Giving Us the Facts About the USSR? (1981, another CPUSA journalist work put out by Soviet publishing house)
* The International Working Class Movement, Problems of History and Theory: Volume 1, The Origins of the Proletariat and Its Evolution as a Revolutionary Class (1980)
* Communist Morality (1962)
* What Is the Working People's Power? (1986, on Soviet government)

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The history of the United States one might be interesting. It's far more interesting, IMO, to see what regimes write about their opponents, rather than what they claim about themselves.

[TNF]

1. Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965
2. History of the USA since World War I

[Lief 🗽]

1. Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965
2. History of the USA since World War I

Yup. "The Races of Mankind" would also be interesting.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The history of the United States one might be interesting. It's far more interesting, IMO, to see what regimes write about their opponents, rather than what they claim about themselves.

Agreed.  Either this or History of Religion (1989) would be my top picks

[Ismail]

1. Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965
2. History of the USA since World War I

The Soviets actually put out a bunch of books on US history, including one on the origins and development of the two-party system, one on the US constitution and how it's been analyzed by American historians and legal minds from its inception onwards, a book on the Founding Fathers, etc., but they're too expensive ergo I couldn't put them on that list.

Also the first book you chose actually has a prequel covering 1918-1939 but, again, bit too pricey to put on that list.

[Ismail]

Voting has ended.

The results:

* The Races of Mankind (1966) 31
* History of the USA Since World War I (1976) 27
* History of Religion (1989) 18
* Communist Morality (1962) 18
* The Life and Death of Martin Luther King (1981) 14
* Soviet Financial System (1966) 14
* The Soviet Court (1973) 13
* An ABC of Planning (1982) 13
* Mao Tse-Tung: An Ideological and Psychological Portrait (1980) 12
* The Soviet Peasantry: An Outline History (1917-1970) (1975) 11
* Cities without Crisis (1976, CPUSA journalist reporting on Soviet cities, put out by Soviet publishing house) 9
* On the Foreign Policy of the Soviet State (Lenin compilation, 497 pages) 9
* Recent History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1939-1965 (1979) 8
* Logic (1989, on the philosophical concept) 7
* Essays in Contemporary History, 1946-1990 (1990) 7
* Socialist Society: Scientific Principles of Development (1971) 7
* The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia: How the Old Intelligentsia Was Drawn Into the Building of Socialism (1975) 6
* Political Economy: Socialism (1977) 6
* The Overseas Expansion of Capital: Past and Present (1985) 6
* Culture and Perestroika (1988) 6
* The Fundamentals of Political Economy (1983) 6
* Lenin the Great Theoretician (1970) 5
* What Is the Working People's Power? (1986, on Soviet government) 5
* Are our Moscow Reporters Giving Us the Facts About the USSR? (1981, another CPUSA journalist work put out by Soviet publishing house) 5
* Cultural Changes in Developing Countries (1976) 5
* The Soviet Political System under Developed Socialism (1977) 5
* Manpower Resources and Population Under Socialism (1979) 4
* Political Economy: Capitalism (1977) 4
* The International Working Class Movement, Problems of History and Theory: Volume 1, The Origins of the Proletariat and Its Evolution as a Revolutionary Class (1980) 4
* The Great October Socialist Revolution (1977, official history textbook) 4
* Developing Nations at the Turn of Millennium (1987) 3
* The Soviet Parliament (A Reference Book) (1967) 3
* The Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies on the Eve of the October Revolution, March-October, 1917 (1971) 2
* The First Soviet Government: The True Story of the Russian Revolution and the Building of Socialism (1982) 2
* The Bolshevik Party and the Democratic Revolution in Russia; the First Russian Revolution and the Period of Reaction (1905-1910) (1975) 1

A total of 170 people voted from 14 different places. I emailed the guy and he said he'll buy the top two works in February and March.

[Ismail]

I've now scanned the second result of the voting: https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfTheUSASinceWorldWarI (the first still has yet to be purchased, but will either next month or in March.)