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!

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    Red Star Over China* by Edgar Snow is good. Snow was a journalist. From the US, I think. He went to China in the 1930s. The book is the story of his time with the early CPC army. It’s good.

    • i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I’m listening to the podcast ‘A Peoples History of Ideas’ and they just mentioned this book. Definitely on my list.