Enver Hoxha – Selected Works

 

Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

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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

Partisan Vow - Guri Madhi

Partisan Vow – Guri Madhi

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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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Mehmet Shehu – Articles and Speeches

 

Mehmet Shehu addressing Partisans during the War for National Liberation

Mehmet Shehu addressing Partisans during the War for National Liberation

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Mehmet Shehu – Articles and Speeches

Mehmet Shehu was a Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania.

Report on the 6th Five Year Plan (1976-1980)

Report on the 6th Five Year Plan (1976-1980)

 

 

 

Submitted to the 7th Congress of the PLA, November 4, 1976

 

 

 

 

 

Magnificent Balance of Victories in the Course of 35 years of Socialist Albania

Magnificent Balance of Victories in the Course of 35 years of Socialist Albania

 

 

Speech at the commemorative meeting on the 35th anniversary of the Liberation of the Homeland and the triumph of the people’s revolution, delivered on November 28, 1979

 

 

 

 

 

Socialist Albania will never budge from its Revolutionary Positions

Socialist Albania will never budge from its Revolutionary Positions

 

 

Speech delivered on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Proclamation of National Independence and the 33rd anniversary of the Liberation of the Homeland (Vlora, November 29, 1977)

 

 

 

 

The Work of our Men of Renaissance Lives on and is honoured in New Socialist Albania

The Work of our Men of Renaissance Lives on and is honoured in New Socialist Albania

 

 

 

Speech delivered at the mass rally organized to honour the memory and work of Abdyl and Naim Frasheri (Tirana, June 11, 1978)

 

 

 

 

The Government of the PRA will be guided by the Marxist-Leninist General Line

The Government of the PRA will be guided by the Marxist-Leninist General Line

 

 

 

Speech delivered at the First Session of the Seventh Legislature of the People’s Assembly of the People’s Republic of Albania on November 21, 1970

 

 

 

 

Report on the 5th Five-Year Plan (1971-1975)

Report on the 5th Five-Year Plan (1971-1975)

 

 

 

Report on the Directives of the 6th Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania for the 5th Five Year Plan (1971-75) of Economic and Cultural Development of the People’s Republic of Albania delivered by Mehmet Shehu on November 4th, 1971

 

 

On the Stand of the People's Republic of Albania Towards the Warsaw Treaty

On the Stand of the People’s Republic of Albania Towards the Warsaw Treaty

 

 

 

Speech delivered at the 6th Session of the Popular Assembly of the People’s Republic of Albania on September 12, 1968

 

 

 

 

 

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