Assignments:

How Many Did Communist Regimes Murder? (1993) by R. J. Rummel

The Nature of Totalitarianism (2007)

Stalin's New Initiatives, 1927-1930, from Lenin, Stalin, & Hitler (2007)

Stalin Solidifies His Grip, early 1930s (2007)

Documents: The Socialist Offensive, 1929

Death By Hunger: The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine

Documents: Forced Collectivization & Famine

The Empire of the Camps: Soviet Gulag System (1999)

The Slave Caravans, fromThe GULAG Archipelago, 1918-1956 (1973)

Man is Wolf to Man (1998) by Janusz Bardach & Kathleen Gleason

An Island Hell (1926) by S. A. Malsagov

Ch. 2: From Monastery to Prison Camp and Ch. 5: Popoff Island Camp

Ch. 6: "Counter-Revolutionaries" & Ch. 14: How "Useful Citizens" are Made

Virgin Soil Upturned (1932) by Mikhail Sholokhov

Ch. 15: Wholesale Slaughter

Ch. 19: Troubles of the Farm

Ch. 33: A Fight For Grain

Prisoner of the OGPU (1935) by George Kitchin

Ch. 1: The Net & Ch. 5: Hunger

Ch. 11: The Manure of Communism

Ch. 19: There Is No Convict Labor!

Inside Europe (1936) by John Gunther

Ukrainian Famine, 1932-34 (1936)

Study Guide: Ukrainian Famine, 1932-1934

The Show Trials, 1936-38 (1938)

Study Guide: Show Trials, 1936-1938

Proletarian Journey: New England, Gastonia, Moscow (1937) by Fred E. Beal

Chapters 20-21: On the Inside & Labor Under the Hammer & Sickle

Chapter 22: Famine

Assignment in Utopia (1937) by Eugene Lyons

Reading Guide: Assignment in Utopia

Ch. 13: Did the First Five Year Plan Succeed? and Ch. 15: The Press Corps Conceals a Famine

Conclusion: Adventure in Idealism

Soviet Gold: My Life as a Slave Laborer in the Siberian Mines (1949) by Vladimir Petrov

Preface and Ch. 1: The Big House

Ch. 5: My First Acquaintance with the Mines

Vorkuta (1954) by Joseph Scholmer

Ch. 5: The Fate of the Jews

Ch. 10: "Annus Mirabilis"

Kolyma Tales (1954-73) by Varlam Shalamov

Intro & "Condensed Milk"

"Shock Therapy"

"Lend Lease"

Study Guides:

Totalitarianism: Communist Russia

Stalin's New Initiatives, 1927-1930

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