The Sickle and the Hammer: A Socialist History of the Soviet Union

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Sources:
Veller, M. I. and Burovsky, A. M. Grazhdanskay Istoria Bezumnoi Voiny. Izdatelstvo ACT, Moskva, 2007.
Istoria Grazhdanskoi Voiny v SSSR, vol. 3. Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Bureau of the KPSS. Published by the State Publisher of Political Literature, Mosvka, 1958. PDF downloaded from leninism.su.

“In order for economic development to take place, one must first have an economy.” - Karl Vladimir Stalin, 2026
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Sources:

Carr, E. H. The Bolsheviks Revolution: 1917-1923, vol. 2. Pelican Books, 1966
Nove, Alec. An Economic History of the Soviet Union: 1917-1991. Penguin Books, 1992.
Dobb, Maurice. Soviet Economic Development since 1917. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1948.
Cliff, Tony. Revolution Besieged: Lenin 1917-1923. 1976, republished by Haymarket Books, 2004.
“The Soviet Union: Facts, Descriptions, Statistics.” Soviet Union Information Bureau, Washington, DC. 1929. Found on marxist.org

What attitude ought socialists and communists have to the question of national self-determination? Survey says: Ask Lenin and Stalin!
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Sources:
Natsional’ny Vopros v Nashei Programme - V. I. Lenin, published in “Iskra” 15 July 1903
Kriticheskie zametki o natsional’nom voproce - V. I. Lenin, published in “Prosveshchenie”, November-December 1913
Rabochii klass i natsional’ny vopros - V. I. Lenin, published in “Pravda” 10 May 1913
Nuzhen li obyazatelny yazyk? - V. I. Lenin, published in “Proletarskaya Pravda” 18 January 1914
O Prave Natsii Na Samoopredelenie - V. I. Lenin, 1914
O Natsional’noi Gordosti Velikorossov - V. I. Lenin, published in “Sotsial-Demokrat”, 12 December 1914
Revoliutsionny Proletariat i Pravo Natsii na Samoopredelenie - V. I. Lenin, 16 October 1915
Marksizm i Natsional’ny Vopros, J. V. Stalin, 1906.
Texts found on leninism.su and marxist.org

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