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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think Blackshirts and Reds was a very accessible USSR book.

Most leftist books, I've found, are very well sourced.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the recommendation, I just read the chapter in that book on Stalin's gulags and repression last night! It was actually really enlightening.