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!

  • SovereignState
    2•2 years ago

    You said history of just the CPC, so I’m unsure if this is pertinent, but The Socialist Program with Brian Becker has a wonderful 7 part series on China’s foreign policy implementations and ideals from 1949-2021, how it has changed so dramatically at times, etc. It’s eye opening stuff and gives more context into seemingly (to many westerners) random things like the invasion of Vietnam (still abhorrent with context) and border clashes with India.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/3v5ZWiw4YmHtpOogZcBVVk?si=8awX5VLRRHC6iWGjor2ANg&utm_source=copy-link

    Whole thing is here, 6 hours long. They’ve got it broken into pieces on the podcast channel.

    • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2•2 years ago

      I actually listen to that podcast regularly now. I was going through the backlog but I have tons of other podcasts I listen to now so I haven’t had the time to go back recently. I’ll add that to my queue ASAP.