Enver Hoxha – Memoirs, Diary Selections and Compilations of Articles

Enver Hoxha
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Enver Hoxha – Memoirs, Diary Selections and Compilations of Articles

On this page I propose to make available for download a series of books that were produced (mainly in the late 70s or early 80s of the last century) containing some of Enver Hoxha’s Memoirs, Diary Selections and Compilations of Articles. Many of these would not have been published widely at the time they were written. This is especially the case with those matters that are directly related to the Communist Party of China and the acrimonious break between Albania and China after the death of Chairman Mao Zedong. There are also some publications which may not have an obvious home on any of the other Enver Hoxha pages on this blog. Many have been scanned by the comrades at Enver Hoxha – His Life and Works and I am, again, very grateful for their work.

Enver Hoxha – Selected Works, Speeches and articles

The Party of Labour of Albania in battle with Modern Revisionism, Speeches and articles, Naim Frashëri Publishing House, Tirana, 1972, 528 pages. Covering the period from 1960 to 1969 this volume demonstrates the consistent approach taken by the Party of Labour of Albania in the struggle against modern revisionism, including the famous speech at the Meeting of the 81 Communist and Workers Parties in Moscow on 16th November 1960.

Albania Challenges Khrushchev Revisionism, Speeches, reports, letters and radiogrammes from the period June – December 1960, in relation to the Moscow Conference of the 81 Communist and Workers Parties., Gamma Publishing, New York, 1976, 295 pages.

Reflections on China Volume 1, 1962 – 1972 Extracts from the political diary, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1979, 783 pages. In this volume Hoxha expresses his frustration at the reluctance of the Communist Party of China to denounce, in public, the revisionism of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (and most of the world’s established Communist Parties).

Reflections on China, volume I, 1962 – 1972, extracts from the political diary, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2022, 658 pages.

Reflections on China Volume 2, 1973 – 1977 Extracts from the political diary, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1979, 810 pages. The relationship between Albania and China deteriorates (even before the death of Chairman Mao Zedong) and gets worse as the Chinese Revisionists, under the leadership of Deng Xioaping, carry out their coup d’etat.

Imperialism and the Revolution, World View Publications, Chicago, 1979, 461 pages. Enver Hoxha’s analysis of the situation in the People’s Republic of China after the death of Chairman Mao and the restoration of capitalism in the one time workers’ state. This includes criticisms of Chairman Mao when the two countries, and leaders, were supposed to have had good fraternal relationships.

Imperialism and the revolution, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 339 pages.

The Titoites, Historical notes, Workers Publishing House, London, ND (original, published in Tirana, dated 1982), 643 pages. Articles where Comrade Enver Hoxha analyses and exposes the inherent revisionist and capitalist nature of the Yugoslavian version of socialism, posed by the renegade Josip Broz Tito. Most of the analysis is of the situation that developed in the 1940s.

The Titoites, historical notes, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2022, 532 pages.

The Anglo-American Threat to Albania, Memoirs of the National Liberation War, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1982, 446 pages. How the British and American Imperialists tried to determine that ‘friendly’ and ‘pro-western’ forces would triumph during the National Liberation War against Fascism and deny the Albanian People the fruits of their own struggle and sacrifices. This includes the so-called ‘Corfu Channel Incident‘.

The Anglo-American threat to Albania, memoirs of the National Liberation War, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 366 pages.

Laying the Foundations of the New Albania, Memoirs and historical notes, Workers Publishing House, London, ND (original, published in Tirana, dated 1984), 584 pages. Memoirs covering the period from the foundation of the National Liberation Front in 1942 to the Proclamation of the People’s Republic of Albania in 1946.

Reflections on the Middle East, 1958 – 1983, Extracts from the political diary, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1984, 550 pages. Extracts from the Political Diary of Enver Hoxha, covering the period 1958 – 1983, where he makes an analysis of the events the Middle East and how both the imperialists and the Soviet Revisionists tried to maintain their influence at the expense of the Arab peoples.

Reflections on the Middle East, 1958 – 1983, extracts from the political diary, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 473 pages.

The Khrushchevites – Memoirs, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1984, 492 pages. This work, written in 1976, comprises the author’s memoirs and personal impressions of his direct meetings and other various contacts with leaders of the CPSU and other Communist and Workers’ Parties during the years 1953-1961.

The Khrushchevites, memoirs, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 403 pages.

Two Friendly Peoples, Excerpts from the political diary and other documents on Albanian-Greek relations, 1941-1984, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Institute, Toronto, 1985, 455 pages.

Two friendly peoples, excerpts from the political diary and other documents on Albanian-Greek relations, 1941-1984, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2024, 342 pages.

The Superpowers, 1959 – 1984, Extracts from the political diary, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1986, 245 pages. Comrade Enver Hoxha‘s analysis of the struggle for world hegemony between the two ‘so-called’ Superpowers, the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

The Superpowers, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2024, 645 pages.

Among simple people, Excerpts from the Memoirs, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 73 pages.

Congress of betrayal, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2022, 545 pages.

Kosova is Albania, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 383 pages.

On literature and art – 1949-1980, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 219 pages.

Palestine belongs to Palestinians, conversations, reflections and articles, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 145 pages.

When the Party was born, excerpts from the Reminiscences, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 100 pages.

Years of my youth, reminiscences, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2024, 321 pages.

Through the pages of Volume 19 of the Works of Comrade Enver Hoxha, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Articles, Radiograms, Letters and Speeches, June-December 1960, Editorials and Commentaries from PCDN and ATA, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 368 pages.

Biographical

Me Popullin mes Shokeve – Enver with the people, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1983, 210 pages. In Albanian. Picture album.

The house in which Comrade Enver Hoxha lived, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1984, 43 pages. In Albanian, French and English.

Udheheqes i dashur e i shtrenjte i Partise e i Popullit tone – The Party of the people, Naim Frashëri Publishing House, Tirana, 1968, 89 pages. In Albanian. Picture album.

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The Great ‘Marxist-Leninist’ Theoreticians

Enver Hoxha – Selected Works

 

Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

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The Great ‘Marxist-Leninist’ Theoreticians

Enver Hoxha – Selected Works

On this page you will find the 6 volumes of the Selected Works of Enver Hoxha in English. They were published over a period of 13 years, from 1974 to 1987 and it appears the project was not fully considered at the beginning. This means there is some overlap of time (and also articles) in Volumes 2 and 3. The last two volumes, 5 and 6, were published (at least in English) after Enver Hoxha’s death on 11th April 1985. These important books have been prepared for the internet by the Russian site ‘Enver Hoxha – His Life and Works’ and we appreciate the work they have done to enable the greater dissemination of his ideas.

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Enver Hoxha – Selected Works

Volume 1

Covers the period November 1941 – October 1948. This was the period from the foundation of the Albanian Communist Party, through the War of Liberation to the establishment of the People’s Republic of Albania.

Volume 2

Covers the period from November 1948 – November 1960. This was the time of the growth of modern Soviet Revisionism, following the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953, up to the Meeting of Communist Parties in Moscow in November 1960 where Hoxha made his famous speech denouncing Khrushchev and his sycophantic hangers-on. (There’s an error on the page with the dates.)

Volume 3

Covers the period from June 1960 – October 1965. During this time Albania was coming under increasing pressure and threat from both the Yugoslav and the Soviet revisionists. The PLA was making a principled stance in the World Communist Movement and as a result was becoming more and more isolated as different parties followed the slavish road of Khrushchev.

Volume 4

Covers the period February 1966 – July 1975. The fight against imperialism and revisionism continues but relationships with the Communist Party of China start to become strained.

Volume 5

Covers the period November 1976 – June 1980. An intense period where the PLA continues to fight against modern revisionism, which has now morphed into ‘Eurocommunism’. The split with China becomes complete as Deng Xiaoping takes control of the Communist party of China.

Volume 6

Covers the period from July 1980 – December 1984. Now surrounded and attacked by the imperialists and the revisionists the PLA concentrates on the difficult task of the construction of socialism and the maintenance of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Albania.

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History of the Party of Labour of Albania

The most complete, official, history of the Albanian Communist Party/Party of Labour of Albania available. We don’t believe the history of the Party after 1980 was ever published, in Albanian let alone English.

Ten years of the Albanian Party of Labour 1941-1951, Orbis, Prague, 1951, 105 pages. A very early book on the history of the Party of Labour of Albania, published in Prague in 1951. It has text in three languages, Albanian, Russian and English. Interesting especially for its collection of photos from the National Liberation War and the first years of Socialist Construction.

History of the Party of Labour of Albania – Chapters 1 and 2, Naim Frashëri Publishing House, Tirana, 1969, 326 pages.

Chapter 1 – The struggle to found the Albanian Communist Party (1929-1941)

Chapter 2 – The Communist Party of Albania – organizer and leader of the War for the Liberation of the Country and for the establishment of the People’s Power (1941-1944)

History of the Party of Labour of Albania – Chapters 3, 4 and 5, Naim Frashëri Publishing House, Tirana, 1970, 308 pages.

Chapter 3 – The Communist Party of Albania in its struggle to rebuild the country and promote Socialist Revolution (December 1944-1948)

Chapter 4 – The struggle of the Party to turn Albania from a backward agrarian country into an agrarian-industrial one (1948-1955)

Chapter 5 – The Party of Labour of Albania and its struggle to complete the building of the economic basis of Socialism (1956-1960)

History of the Party of Labour of Albania, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1982, 2nd edition, 632 pages. The second edition of the ‘History of the PLA’ covers the activity of the Party up to 1980. Apart from this, the first edition has been re-edited, making a number of minor alterations which do not affect its structure or general content. The changes comprise some abridgements and corrections made on the basis of documents.

As well as the same 5 chapters listed above this volume includes;

Chapter 6 – The PLA in struggle for the complete construction of Socialist society in the conditions of the imperialist-revisionist blockade (1961-1965)

Chapter 7 – The struggle of the PLA for the further revolutionization of the Party and the life of the country (1966-1971)

Chapter 8 – The struggle of the Party for the deepening of the Socialist revolution in all fields through stern class struggle (1971-1976)

Chapter 9 – The PLA leads the people resolutely on the Marxist-Leninist road of the complete construction of Socialist society (1976-1980)

The history of the building of a Communist Party in Albania – according to the modern revisionists

Georgi Dimitrov and the Albanian Democratic and Communist Movement, 1920-1939, Elena Atanassova, Sofia Press, 1979, 62 pages. An approach, not withstanding the outstanding figure of Georgi Dimitrov, that attempts to denigrate the struggle of the Albanians to create their own Communist Party.

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