Hi everyone. I’m looking for some suggested reading (books or articles mainly. Although a video or podcast would be welcome as well) covering the following topics:
- fall of the USSR. Specifically the last few years of the USSR and the capitalist restoration period afterwards.
- History of Tibet leading up to the Chinese revolution. Also interested in US/CIA involvement in the decades after.
- History just of the CPC.
These don’t necessarily have to be Marxist analyses but it would be preferred. I just want to mainly avoid Western liberal bias.
Also I looked for some reading group communities on Lemmygrad. I found a couple but they weren’t very active. Does anyone have any active reading and discussion groups they recommend?
Thanks comrades!
This Parenti article might just be what you’re looking for.
https://redsails.org/friendly-feudalism/
People’s History of Ideas podcast. Its focus is the history of international Maoism, and it only reaches up to the early stages of the civil war, but its so well researched I cannot not reccomend it to you.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3IRm6HB8t5BgcDt0P7B6aD?si=0b8b6476c6954513
Paul Cockshott has intersting stuff on the economic history of the Soviet Union right up till its collapse, but I can’t reccomend you more dedicated authors. Other people shared better resources.
https://youtu.be/Nu85byBBddY
Actually I am listening to that podcast right now! I’m up to like the 1920s right now. Love that podcast. I’ll go on long binges with it.