I want to learn more about the history and government of the USSR. Obviously this is a very broad area but do you have recommendations for books on the topic?
I can’t recommend This Soviet World enough. It’s a first hand account of what life in USSR was like in 1930s, and it’s one of the most uplifting and optimistic things I’ve read in a while. It does an amazing job of capturing the spirit of USSR.
History of the CPSU, Another View of Stalin, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Socialism Betrayed, Human Rights in the Soviet Union
“Soviet Democracy and How it Works”
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
https://welshundergroundnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/socialism-betrayed.pdf
Khrushchev Lied
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-nmIGAXUrq0OJ87zK
The Origins of the Great Purges
Blackshirts & Reds
https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds
Since others mentioned it but didn’t link it:
Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend
Trotsky - The History of the Russian Revolution
