Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The following Reading Guide is only an initial attempt at beginning to organize many of the texts
scattered among the various "Collections" into broad topical areas. It is my hope that this may assist
not only readers who are unfamiliar with the basic texts of Scientific Socialism and the Communist
movement, but those who have gone beyond the basics and wish to deepen their knowledge of
specific areas. Needless to say, these "topical areas" do not exhaust the subject matter contained in the
Collections, nor are they exclusive of each other. As always, your comments, suggestions, and
criticisms are always welcome, and most especially in regard to developing this Reading Guide.
Historical/Intellectual Background
Engels:
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Political Economy
Marx:
Wages, Price and Profit (1865)
The State
Lenin:
The State (1919) (48k)
The State and Revolution (1917) (292k)
Dialectics
Lenin:
On the Question of Dialectics (1915) (16k)
Mao:
On Practice (1937) (44k)
On Contradiction (1937) (106k)
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Socialism
Marx:
Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) (includes letters by Engels) (159k)
Lenin:
Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1919) (30k)
Mao:
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) (105k)
The Agrarian Question:
Lenin:
The Economic Content of Narodism (1894) (463k)
The Development of Capitalism in Russia (1899) (1.9MB)
Capitalism in Agriculture (1899) (138k)
The Agrarian Question and the "Critics of Marx" (1901) (350k) (*)
The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy (1902) (123k)
The Agrarian Question and the "Critics of Marx" (1907) [cont. from 1901] (139k)
The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-07 (1907) (605k)
The Agrarian Question in Russia Towards the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1908) (236k)
The Capitalist System and Modern Agriculture (1910) (64k)
New Data on the Laws Governing the Development of Capitalism in Agriculture. Part
One. Lenin/Capitalism and Agriculture in the United States of America (1915) (270k)
Preliminary Draft Theses on the Agrarian Question. For the Second Congress of the Communist
International (1920) (34k)
Stalin:
The Agrarian Question (1906) (33k)
The Communist International:
Lenin:
First Congress of the Communist International (1919) (65k)
The Third International and Its Place in History (1919) (P) (24k)
Preliminary Draft Theses on the National and the Colonial Questions. For the Second Congress of
the Communist International (1920) (25k)
Preliminary Draft Theses on the Agrarian Question. For the Second Congress of the Communist
International (1920) (34k)
Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Communist International (1920) (52k)
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Mao:
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957) (105k)
The State:
Lenin:
The State and Revolution (1917) (292k)
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (1918) (286k)
A Contribution to the History of the Question of the Dictatorship (1920) (68k)
Strategy and Tactics:
Politics
Lenin:
The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy (1902) (123k)
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) (347k)
On the Two Lines of the Revolution (1915) (17k)
Letters from Afar (1917) (139k)
The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution [Lenin's "April Theses"] (1917) (24k)
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917) (130k)
"Left-Wing" Communism, An Infantile Disorder (1920) (P) (266k)
Stalin:
The Provisional Revolutionary Government and Social-Democracy (1905) (46k)
Concerning The Question of the Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists (1923) (48k)
"Strategy and Tactics" from The Foundations of Leninism (1924)
Mao:
On New Democracy (1940) (132k)
On Coalition Government (1945) (187k)
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Mao:
Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War (1936) (218k)
Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan (1938) (99k)
On Protracted War (1938) (236k)
Problems of War and Strategy (1938) (49k)
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