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Kazansky Mainline Railway Station – Moscow

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Kazansky 'Pod Room'

Kazansky ‘Pod Room’

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Kazansky Mainline Railway Station – Moscow

One of the most important aspects of the Kazansky mainland railway station in Moscow (from a Socialist Realist art perspective) is one of the rooms off the main concourse. This used to be the restaurant when the station was first opened in the mid 1920s but now seems to be used more as a high end, high comfort waiting room. There are even ‘pods’ in the room for people to sleep in if they have an early or ‘middle of the night’ departure. The designation of the room now is as The Pod Room.

The architectural design of the room itself seems to follow more of the pre- revolutionary layout and influences but what makes it distinctive now are the images that have been placed into the ‘baroque style’ panels.

For unknown reasons the construction of this station took place over many years so it’s difficult to pin down exactly when the murals were painted – although the panel at one end of the room depicting the reconstruction of Moscow would indicate that at least some of the panels are post-1944/5.

I have no idea of the artist (or artists) but what’s most interesting about this decoration, which is slightly different from the other mainline railway stations in Moscow, is that the images here are telling the story about all parts of the Soviet Union, that is, areas other than those parts of the Soviet Union which were actually served by the station itself.

Kazanskaya station mainly serves the east but, for example, there are images of the Ukraine, which is west of Moscow. So here many parts of the Soviet Union get referenced. There’s also a reference, which is again slightly unusual, to the ‘Workers of the World’.

This is art that has a political message, but it’s also a little bit of fun. Some of the images are humorous, joking. This is as well as putting over a political message about the achievements of the Soviet Union in the construction of Socialism.

Some things to look out for in the panels on the ceiling;

  • the airship in the central panel;
  • the loggers from the far north;
  • the rebuilding of Moscow;
  • the miners and collective farm woman of the Ukraine;
  • the fox;
  • the grapes and water melon;
  • the celebration of the arrival of electricity in the far east of Russia;
  • the camel in Kazakhstan;
  • the red stars in Siberia;
  • the sad looking fish;
  • pollution being caused by smoke belching from factory chimneys and ships;
  • the group of four – the cow, the horse, the goat and the cockerel;
  • ‘Workers of the World, Unite!’ in multiple languages.
Kazansky Station - Vadim Razumov

Kazansky Station – Vadim Razumov

Related;

Yaroslavsky station

Kievskya railway station

Stalingrad (Volgograd) Railway Station

Architect;

Alexey Shchusev (of the station building)

Location;

2 Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow

GPS;

55.773333°N

37.656389°E

Construction;

Started in 1913 but not totally completed until 1940 – with later modifications

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The defence of Petrograd
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History of the USSR

The history of the Soviet Union is one of constant struggle. It was born out of violence with the October Revolution in 1917 and then was immediately thrust into a life and death struggle for its existence against the capitalist and imperialist forces that could not countenance the existence of a state outside of their control.

Once the civil war was won the Communists in the Soviet Union then had the struggle to convince the population that a new world was possible whilst at the same time providing them with the lifestyle that was a radical improvement upon what they had lived under during the dark centuries of Czarism, a long period of feudalism and serfdom for the majority whilst the very few lived in luxury.

But even after wining the war against the foreign, imperialist invaders (supporting the moribund forces of reaction) the threat of external attack was never far away and the country always had to be aware of a potential foreign intervention, socially, economically and militarily. That ultimately led to the Hitlerite invasion of the country and the start of the Great Patriotic War – which ended when the Red Army chased the Nazi beast back to its lair.

The items on this page attempt to provide a background to this tumultuous period in history.

Ten Days that Shook the World, by John Reed, a stirring account of the proletarian seizure of power in November 1917, first published in 1919, ebook format 2017, 399 pages.

Six Red Months in Russia, an observers account of Russia before and during the proletarian dictatorship, Louise Bryant, first published 1919, Slavia Publishers, Blooming, 2017, 187 pages.

Dictatorship of the Proletariat, L Kamenev, The Toiler, Cleaveland, 1920, 14 pages.

Recent economic developments in Russia, K. Leites, ed. Harald Westergaard, Oxford, London, 1922, 248 pages.

A Short Course of Economic Science, A Bogdanoff, CPGB, London, 1925, 391 pages.

An illustrated history of the Russian Revolution, Volume 1, edited by W. Astrov, A. Slepkov and J. Thomas, contributors include V. I. Lenin, N. Bukharin, J. Stalin and A. N. Rykov, translated by Freda Utley, International, New York, March 1928, 204 pages. Volume 2 is not yet available.

An Outline of Political Economy, Political Economy and Soviet Economics, I Lapidus and K Ostrovityanov, Martin Lawrence, London, 1929, 546 pages.

Civil War in the Taiga: a story of guerrilla warfare in the forests of Easter Siberia, Ivan Yakovlevich Strod, Moscow/Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1933, 162 pages.

Dialectical Materialism, Collective of the Institute of Philosophy of the Communist Academy under the leadership of MB Mitin, np., 1934, 219 pages.

Last days of the Tsar, PM Bykov, International Publishers, New York, 1934, 90 pages.

Dictatorship and Democracy, Anna Louise Strong, International Publishers, New York, 1934, 23 pages.

The Iron Flood, Alexander Serafimovich, International, New York, 1935, 248 pages. This is a novel set during the Russian Civil War following the October Revolution, and based on a real incident in which the Red Taman Army escaped encirclement by the Whites.

A History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R. – Volume 1 – The Prelude to the Great Proletarian Revolution, edited by M. Gorky, S. Kirov, K. Voroshilov, A. Zhdanov, and J. Stalin, FLPH, Moscow, 1936, 573 pages.

Is Soviet Communism a new civilisation?, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, The Left Review, London, 1936, 30 pages.

Our country, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow, 1937, 79 pages.

Moscow 1937, Lion Feuchtwanger, Viking Press, New York, 1937, 151 pages.

The story of Soviet Progress, Corliss Lamont, Soviet Russia Today, New York?, 1938, 36 pages.

A Short History of the USSR, Textbook for 3rd and 4th Classes, edited by Professor AV Shestakov, Cooperative Publishing Company of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow, 1938, 257 pages.

First Session of the 1st Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Moscow, January 12-19 1938, Cooperative Publishing Company of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow, 1938, 142 pages.

Second Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, August 10-20 1938, verbatim report, FLPH, Moscow, 1938, 685 pages.

The World Hails 20th Anniversary of the Soviet Union, Cooperative Publishing Company of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow, 1938, 247 pages.

The USSR and the capitalist countries, edited by L Mekhlis, Y Varga and V Karpinsky, FLPH, Moscow, 1938, 94 pages.

World affairs and the USSR, WP and Zelda Coates, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1939, 251 pages.

Two Systems, Socialist economy and capitalist economy, Eugene Varga, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1939, 268 pages.

The USSR and Finland, Outstanding Facts and Documents, FLPH, Moscow, 1939, 46 pages.

A history of Soviet foreign policy, M Ross, Workers’ Library, New York, 1940, 80 pages.

October 1917 in Russia, this vivid account of the actual seizure of power is based on historic documents in the archives of the Revolution, I Mintz, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1940, 84 pages.

Russia, Finland and the Baltic, WP and ZK Coates, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1940, 144 pages.

War on the USSR, University Socialist Club, Cambridge, University Labour Federation, London, 1940, 16 pages.

History of Anarchism in Russia, E Yarolavsky, Lawrence and Wishart, London, nd., early 1940’s?, 127 pages.

America’s Siberian Adventure, General William S. Graves, Peter Smith, New York, 1931, reprint 1941, 402 pages.

Soviet Russia – A Syllabus for study courses, Joan Thompson, Russia Today Society, London, 1941?, 23 pages.

Our ally Russia – the Truth, Jennie Lee, WH Allen, London, 1942, 64 pages.

Russian Cavalcade, EH Carter, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1944, 152 pages.

Political Economy in the Soviet Union, the full text of the Soviet article which provoked wide discussion and speculation in the American press, previously published only in parts, International Publishers, New York, 1944, 48 pages.

Soviet women, Rose Maurer, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, New York, 1944, 56 pages.

Soviet Russia and the Baltic Republics, Philip Farr, Russia Today Society, London?, (originally) 1944, digital version, 38 pages.

From the Russian Revolution to Yalta, a review of Soviet Foreign Policy, Pat Sloan, Russia Today, London, 1945, 28 pages.

History of Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1942, Volume 1, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1945, 816 pages.

The A to Z of the Soviet Union, compiled by Alex Page, facts and figures on every aspect of Soviet Life, Russia Today Society, London, 1945, 42 pages.

A History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R. – Volume 2 – The Great Proletarian Revolution (October-November 1917), edited by M. Gorky, V. Molotov, K. Voroshilov, S. Kirov, A. Zhdanov, and J. Stalin, FLPH, Moscow, 1946, 680 pages.

USSR Embassy in the USA, Informational Bulletin, Special on Religion, October 9, 1946, 24 pages.

Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1947, John Quinn, British Soviet Society, London, 1947, 32 pages.

Stalin must have peace, Edgar Snow, Random House, New York, 1947, 176 pages.

An engineer looks at Russia, Wal Hannington, British-Soviet Society, London, 1947, 38 pages.

Man and plan in Soviet Society, Andrew Rothstein, (originally published in London in 1948), Stalin Society of India, n.d., 146 pages.

Moscow Correspondent, Ralph Parker, Frederick Muller, London, 1949, 304 pages.

Soviet Democracy and bourgeois democracy, Mitin, FLPH, Moscow, 1949, 31 pages.

A History of the USSR, Andrew Rothstein, first published Penguin Books, London, 1950, reprinted version Red Star Press, New York, 2013, 398 pages.

Mission to Moscow, Joseph E Davies, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1936-1938, a record of confidential dispatches to the State Department, official and personal correspondence, current diary and journal entries, including notes and comment up to October 1941, Victor Gollanz, London, 1945, 472 pages.

The Soviet Transition from Socialism to Communism, Emile Burns, The Communist Party, London, 1950, 16 pages.

The social and state structure of the USSR, V Karpinsky, FLPH, Moscow, 1950, 239 pages.

Russia is for Peace, DN Pritt, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1951, 106 pages.

The Myth of Soviet Imperialism, LG Churchward, Melbourne, 1951, 52 pages.

We saw for ourselves, Report of the 19 Americans on their visit to the USSR, New World Review, New York, 1951, digital version by Red Star Publishers, 2018, 126 pages.

The USSR – a hundred questions answered, Soviet News, London, 1952, 158 pages.

The Great October Socialist Revolution and its significance, II Mints and GN Golikov, n.p., Moscow, 1955, 99 pages.

History of Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1943-1950, Volume 2, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1958, 463 pages.

The Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, Progress, Moscow, 1969, 341 pages.

First decrees of Soviet Power, compiled, with introductory notes and explanatory notes by Yuri Akhapkin, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1970, 186 pages.

On the transition to Socialism, Paul M Sweezy and Charles Bettleheim, Monthly Review, New York, 1971, 122 pages.

The USSR and the Middle East, problems of peace and security 1947-1971, Novosti, Moscow, 1972, 295 pages.

The October storm and after, stories and reminiscences, Progress, Moscow, 1974, 354 pages.

The Great October Revolution and the Intelligentsia, S Fedyukin, Progress, Moscow, 1975, 229 pages.

Soviet foreign policy, Volume 1, 1917-1945, Progress, Moscow, 1981, 501 pages.

Soviet foreign policy, Volume 2, 1945-1980, Progress, Moscow, 1981, 728 pages.

Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed, Progress, Moscow, 1987, 336 pages.

Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship, the Red Army and the Soviet State 1917-1930, Mark Van Hagen, Cornell University, New York, 1993, 397 pages.

Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union, from Hitler to Hearst, from Conquest to Solzhenitsyn: the history of the millions of people who, allegedly, were incarcerated and died in the labour camps of the Soviet Union and as a result of starvation in Stalin’s time, Mario Sousa, KPML(r), Sweden, 1999, 17 pages.

Ten days that shock the world, John Reed, Blackmask Online, 2000, 228 pages.

The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927, Alexander Pantsov, University of Hawaii Press, 2000, 324 pages.

CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947-1991, edited by Gerald K. Haines and Robert E. Leggett, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA, Washington, 2001, 323 pages. Some interesting documents, especially those related to the early ‘Cold War’ and the establishment of NATO.

Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform (Part One), Grover Furr, 2005, 31 pages.

Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform (Part Two), Grover Furr, 2005, 17 pages.

The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: the war nobody knew, Michael M. Walker, University Press of Kansas, 2017, 319 pages.

A short outline of the history of the Mongolian People’s Revolution, K. Choibalsan, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2022, 99 pages.

The Bolshevik Revolution – its impact on American Radicals, Liberals and Labor, A documentary study, Philip Foner, International Publishers, New York, 2017, 304 pages.

Soviet Light on the Colonies, Leonard Barnes, Maps and Diagrams by J. F. Horrabin, first published by Penguin Books, London, 1944, 192 pages.

Land of the Soviets – a handbook of the USSR, Nicholas Mikhailov, Lee Furman, New York, 1939, 351 pages.

This is Russia, Hubert Griffith, Hammond, London, 1943, 98 pages.

The Economic Problem of the Peace, Walter Padley, Left Book Club, Gollanz, London, 1944, 164 pages.

Problems of Economics, a monthly journal, No. 3, March 1952, Academy of Sciences of USSR Institute of Economics, Pravda Publishing House, digital version 2011, 202 pages.

The Soviets – a pictorial history of Communist Russia, Robert Goldston, Bantam, New York, 1967, 255 pages.

Report on the Russians, WL White, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1946, 250 pages.

Comrades and Citizens – Soviet People, Seema Rynin Allan, Left Book Club, Gollanz, London, 1938, 392 pages.

Videos and podcasts

Why did the USSR Collapse? — Grover Furr. ICSS Marxist. 14 September 2025.

Our speaker today is researcher, historian, and author, Prof. Grover Furr of Montclair State University in New Jersey. He teaches Medieval English Literature and has a Ph.D. from Princeton University. However, his subject of research has been the Soviet history of the Stalin period, on which he has written many articles and 17 books, starting with ‘Khrushchev Lied’ in 2011, and his last published book is titled ‘Trotsky’s Comintern Conspiracy – The Case of Osip Pyatnitsky’ published in 2024. His present research is on the Gorbachev period, which culminated in the fall of the USSR in 1991. [From ICSS Marxist introduction.]

Transcript of the above presentation on the collapse of the Soviet Union by Grover Furr in the ICSS Marxist video.

 

 

E. H. Carr — A History of Soviet Russia (Socialist Era)

The Bolshevik Revolution, Vol. 1, (1950), 436 pages.

The Bolshevik Revolution, Vol. 2, (1952), 405 pages.

The Bolshevik Revolution, Vol. 3, (1953), 626 pages.

The Interregnum-1923-1924, (1954), 400 pages.

Socialism In One Country – 1924-1926, Vol. 1, 565 pages, (1958).

Socialism In One Country – 1924-1926, Vol. 2, 565 pages, (1959).

Socialism In One Country – 1924-1926, Vol. 3, Part 1, 609 pages, (1964).

Socialism In One Country – 1924-1926, Vol. 3, Part 2, 449 pages, (1964).

Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929, Vol. 1, Part 1, 467 pages, (1969), co-authored by R. W. Davies.

Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929, Vol. 1, Part 2, 575 pages, (1969), co-authored by R. W. Davies.

Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929, Vol. 2, 526 pages, (1971).

Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929, Vol. 3, Part 1, 323 pages, (1976).

Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929, Vol. 3, Part 2, 335 pages, (1976).

Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929, Vol. 3, Part 3, 462 pages, (1978).

Twilight of the Comintern – 1930-1935, Pantheon Books, New York, 1982, 473 pages.

Charles Bettelheim on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period, 1917-1923, Charles Bettleheim, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1976, 567 pages.

Class Struggles in the USSR, Second Period, 1923-1930, Charles Bettleheim, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1978, 640 pages.

Class Struggles in the USSR, Third Period, 1930-1941, Part1 – the Dominated, Charles Bettelheim, TR Publications, Madras, 1994, 301 pages.

Class Struggles in the USSR, Third Period, 1930-1941, Part 2 – the Dominators, Charles Bettelheim, TR Publications, Madras, 1996, 345 pages.

Economic Calculation and forms of property, an essay on the transition from capitalism to Socialism, Charles Bettleheim, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1975, 168 pages.

Marxism and Mr Bettelheim, Sunil Sen, revolutionarydemocracry.org, 1999, 13 pages.

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A Collective Farm Festival

A Collective Farm Festival

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A view of different aspects of life when the people of the USSR were attempting to construct a new society in a hostile world of capitalism and imperialism – which used every opportunity to undermine the task of the revolutionary workers and peasants in the country that covered one-sixth of the world’s land mass.

The Marriage Laws of Soviet Russia, complete text of first code of laws of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic dealing with Civil Status and Domestic Relations, Marriage, the Family and Guardianship, Soviet Russia Pamphlets No. 2, The Russian Soviet Government Bureua, New York, 1921, 49 pages.

Red Star in Samarkand, Anna Louise Strong, Coward McCann, New York, 1929, 329 pages.

The Soviet Five-year Plan and its effect on world trade, HR Knickerbocker, Bodley Head, London, 1931, 245 pages.

From the First to the Second Five-Year Plan, a Symposium, J Stalin, V Molotov, L Kaganovich, K Voroshilov and others, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow, 1933, 490 pages.

In Place of Profit, social incentives in the Soviet Union, Harry F Ward, Scibner’s Sons, New York, 1933, 460 pages.

Foreign trade in the USSR, JD Yanson, The New Soviet Library, Gollanz, London, 1934, 175 pages.

The Soviet Union and World Peace, Anna Louise Strong, Disarmament, non-aggression, the Far East, League of Nations, Franco-Soviet Pact, International Publishers, New York, 1935, 30 pages.

Buryat-Mongolia, International Publishers, New York, 1936, 56 pages.

Soviet Russia and Religion, Corliss Lamont, International pamphlets No 49, International Publishers, New York, 1936, 23 pages.

The Reconstruction of Moscow, Lev Perchik, Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow. 1936, 72 pages.

Soviet Communism, a new civilisation, Volume One, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Scibners, New York, 1936, 528 pages.

Soviet Communism, a new civilisation, Volume Two, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Scibners, New York, 1936, 645 pages.

Handbook on the Soviet Trade Unions, for workers’ delegations, edited by A Lozovsky, Cooperative Publishing Company of Foreign Workers in the USSR, Moscow, 1937, 144 pages.

Soviet Democracy, Pat Sloan, Left Book Club, Victor Gollanz, London, 1937, 288 pages.

Socialised Medicine in the Soviet Union, Henry E Sigerist, Left Book Club, Victor Gollanz, London, 1937, 397 pages.

The position of women in the USSR, GN Serebrennikov, Victor Gollanz, London, 1937, 117 pages.

A Visit to Russia, Report of Durham Miners Association, 1937, 56 pages.

From Tsardom to the Stalin Constitution, WP and Zelda Cpates, Aleen and Unwin, london, 1938, 332 pages.

The USSR and the Capitalist Countries, ed by L Mekhlis, Y Varga and V Karpinsky, FLPH, Moscow, 1938, 94 pages.

The Moscow Subway, Y Abakumov, FLPH, Moscow, 1939, 24 pages.

Universities in the USSR, ULF Pamphlet No 7, University Labour Federation, London, 1939, 20 pages.

The State Farms of the USSR, P Lobanov, People’s Commissar of State Farms of the USSR and Member of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, FLPH, Moscow, 1939, 32 pages.

Soviet Students, S Kaftanov, Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars of the USSR, FLPH, Moscow, 1939, 32 pages.

Sport In the USSR, A Starostin, FLPH, Moscow, 1939, 31 pages. (Apologies, bad scan. Pages out of sequence.)

State Farms of the USSR, P Lobanov, People’s Commissar of State Farms of the USSR, FLPH, 1939, 32 pages.

Light on Moscow, DN Pritt, Penguin, London, 1940, 223 pages.

USSR speaks for itself, No 1, Industry, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1941, 95 pages.

USSR speaks for itself, No 2, Agriculture and Transport, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1941, 104 pages.

USSR Speaks for itself, No 3, Democracy in Practice, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1941, 104 pages.

How the Soviet State is run, Pat Sloan, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1941, 128 pages.

Marriage and The Family in the USSR, D Erde, Soviet Booklets, No. 2, Soviet War News, London, 1942, p16.

The Russians are people, Anna Louise Strong, Cobbett Publishing, London, 1943, 202 pages.

Peoples of the USSR, Anna Louise Strong, Macmillan, New York, 1944, 246 pages.

The truth about Soviet Union, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, with an essay on the Webbs by Bernard Shaw, Longmans, London, 1944, 79 pages.

Soviet Farmers, Anna Louise Strong, Pocket Library of the USSR, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, New York?, n.d., 1944?, 47 pages.

Soviet Local Government, the administration of village and city explained, rates and taxes, elections, gas, water, electricity and other municipal services, Don Brown, Russia Today, London, 1945, 24 pages. (Apologies, bad scan, pages out of order.)

USSR, her life and her people, Maurice Dobb, University of London Press, 1945, 139 pages.

The Pattern of Soviet Power, Edgar Snow, Random House, New York, 1945, 219 pages.

These are the Russians, Richard Lauterback, Harper, New York, 1945, 368 pages.

Introducing the USSR, Beatrice King, Pitman, London, 1946, 112 pages.

Soviet Democracy, Harry F. Ward, Soviet Russia Today, New York, 1947, 48 pages.

Soviet Communism, A New Civilization, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Longman’s, London, 1947, 1007 pages.

The Right-Wing Social-Democrats Today, O Kuusinen, FLPH, Moscow, 1948, 35 pages.

Industry in the USSR, E Lokshin, FLPH, Moscow, 1948, 170 pages.

The Soviet way of life, an examination, Maurice Lovell, Methuen, London, 1948, 213 pages.

The Law of the Soviet State, Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinskiy, Macmillan Company, New York, 1948, 749 pages.

Man and Plan in Soviet Economy, Andrew Rothstein, digitised version, first published in London 1948, 145 pages.

Soviet Economic Development since 1917, Maurice Dobb, Routledge Kegan Paul, London, 1948, 487 pages.

Industry in the USSR, E Lokshin, FLPH, Moscow, 1948, 170 pages.

Dialectical Materialism and Historical Science, VP Volgin, np., 1949, 5 pages.

Across the map of the USSR, N Mikhailov, FLPH, Moscow, 1949, 344 pages.

Fulfilment of the USSR State Plan for 1949, communique of the Central Statistical Administrration of the USSR Council of Ministers, Soviet News, London, 1950, 22 pages.

The role of the State in the Socialist Transformation of the economy of the USSR, KV Ostroviyanov, FLPH, Moscow, 1950, 11 pages.

The Soviet Socialist State, FLPH, Moscow, 1951, 46 pages.

The Soviet Union Today, a scientist’s impressions, SM Manton, with an foreword by Lord Boyd-Orr, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1952, 133 pages.

Questions and answers on Property (Public and Private) in the USSR, Soviet News, London, 1954, 24 pages.

Soviet Law and Soviet Society, ethical foundations of the Soviet structure, mechanism of the planned economy, duties and rights of peasants and workers, rulers and toilers, the family and the state, Soviet justice, national minorities and their autonomy, the People’s Democracies and the Soviet pattern for a united world, George Guins, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1954, 457 pages.

The Soviet Regime, Communism in Practice, WW Kulski, Syracuse University Press, New York, 1954, 807 pages.

Education in the USSR, ASYFA, n.d., n.p., 12 pages. (Apologies, bad scan, pages all out of sequence.)

Questions and answers on Working Conditions in Soviet Industry, Soviet News, London, 1954, 30 pages.

Engineering progress in the USSR, A Zvorykin, FLPH, Moscow, 1955, 80 pages.

Problems and Achievements of Soviet Historical Science, abridged from the brief survey presented to the International Congress in Rome in September 1955, AL Sidorov, Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, London, 1955, 13 pages.

Soviet civilization, Corliss Lamont, Philosophical Library, New York, 1955, 447 pages.

Political economy – a textbook issued by the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R, Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1957, 623 pages.

Soviet Economic Development since 1917, Maurice Dobb, International Publishers, New York, 1966 (reprint of 1948 original), 515 pages.

Jews in the Soviet Union – Fact versus Fiction, British Soviet Friendship Society, London, 1971, 4 pages.

Fraud, famine and fascism, the Ukrainian genocide myth from Hitler to Harvard, Douglas Tottle, Progress Books, Toronto, 1987, 167 pages.

Bourgeois nations and Socialist nations, V. Kozlov, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2023, 64 pages.

Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (Stalin Constitution), As Amended and Added to at the First and Second Sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., Third Convocation, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2022, 158 pages.

Democracy and Dictatorship in the Soviet Union & Soviet farmers, Anna Louise Strong, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2023, 115 pages.

Great construction works of Communism and the remaking of nature, V.A. Kovda, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2023, 81 pages.

On the Soviet Union, Paul Robeson, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2022, 54 pages.

Religion in the USSR, E Yaroslavsky, President of the League of Militant Atheists of the Soviet Union, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2022, 101 pages.

Socialism and the individual, M.D. Kammari, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2022, 106 pages.

The Soviet White Paper on the North Atlantic Pact, translation of the full text of the Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, published in the Moscow Izvestia, January 29, 1949, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2022, 49 pages.

The Stalin Era, Anna Louise Strong, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2023, 176 pages.

Women in the Land of Socialism, Nina Popova, November 8th Publishing House, Ottawa 2023, 194 pages.

Anton Semenovich Makarenko

 ….was a Ukrainian and Soviet educator, social worker and writer, became the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union.

Lectures to Parents, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1961, 30 pages. These texts are lectures that were given by Makarenko over the radio in 1937. They were published in the Literaturnaia Gazetta after he died in 1939, and also in the Collected Works of Makarenko, Vol. 4, 1951.

A Book for Parents, FLPH, Moscow, 1954, 410 pages.

Workers control and socialist democracy, The Soviet experience, Carmen Sirianni, Verso, London, 1982, 437 pages.

Road to Life, Part 1, n.p., n.d., 282 pages.

Road to Life, an epic of education, volume 2, FLPH, Moscow, 1955, 179 pages. Online Version: A. S. Makarenko Reference Archive (marxists.org) 2002.

Anton Semyonovitch Makarenko, an analysis of his educational ideas in the context of Soviet Society, Frederic Lilge, University of California, Berkeley, 1958, 52 pages.

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