/lit/ - Literature

Lastly for histories and overviews I recommend Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds. Many misrepresent this book as a blanket defense of the USSR under Joseph Stalin but that isn't true. It in fact is very critical of Stalin and spends an entire chapter detailing what he did wrong. On the other hand, it refutes myths about the Stalin era of the USSR using empirical data and also presents a strong counterargument to the usual line that "the Soviet Union was just a Left Wing version of Nazi Germany" by comparing and contrasting the two regimes thoroughly