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Enver Zogha: Nov 12, 2008; The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists.

Junk posted:

This is fuckin' rad. Since you mentioned it, I'd be interested to see any DPRK literature you have. I've always heard about how terrible it is but I want to experience it first hand.

Check out Modern History of Korea, should be more than enough.

Meanwhile I've now scanned that 700-page Soviet history of the world from 1917-1945: https://archive.org/details/AContemporaryWorldHistory19171945

So if you wanted to know what the Soviets thought of Canadian politics back in the day or whatever, there you go.

Next is a Soviet book from 1990 on consumer, producer, and other kinds of cooperatives in Asian and African countries which also contains a chapter on how cooperatives operated in the USSR.

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Apollodorus: Feb 13, 2010; TEST YOUR MIGHT

Gonna be honest, the one on MLK Jr.'s death is more honest than any American depiction of it. The description of the commercial breaks between coverage of the assassination is just...I dunno, depressing? Accurate? Depressingly accurate?

Just because the USSR sucked balls doesn't mean America isn't/wasn't all kinds of hosed up too.

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Enver Zogha: Nov 12, 2008; The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists.

Scanned the Soviet book on third world cooperatives: https://archive.org/details/CooperativeMovementInAsiaAndAfrica

Next I'll be scanning four books on Africa, the first three books from 1960-63 by a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who focuses on the independence struggles, the role of the working-class in them, and prospects for socialism, and the fourth book being a Soviet work from 1974 titled The New Scramble for Africa.

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mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Apollodorus posted:

Gonna be honest, the one on MLK Jr.'s death is more honest than any American depiction of it. The description of the commercial breaks between coverage of the assassination is just...I dunno, depressing? Accurate? Depressingly accurate?

Just because the USSR sucked balls doesn't mean America isn't/wasn't all kinds of hosed up too.

A lot of the propaganda, especially surrounding racism, is absolutely spot on, but was ignored because it was coming form the dirty commies. Who, themselves, were far from angels.

Anyway, my grandfather has the Great Soviet Encyclopedia collection, which looks something like this:

There's no way I'm gonna scan it, but you can find it already OCRd here: http://bse.sci-lib.com/ and just use google translate if necessary.

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Enver Zogha: Nov 12, 2008; The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists.

mobby_6kl posted:

There's no way I'm gonna scan it, but you can find it already OCRd here: http://bse.sci-lib.com/ and just use google translate if necessary.

You can actually find the English edition online. I'll quote from something I wrote elsewhere:

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The online version in English is a bit inconsistent (some articles appear to have been written as early as 1970, some are as late as 1982), but yeah. The articles will always have a "Warning" on top saying that they come from the GSE and therefore might be biased. Sometimes you'll have to scroll down a bit since there can be different articles from different encyclopedias. GSE articles will always have a warning on top of them saying it "might be outdated or ideologically biased."

Here's a start: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/United%20States%20of%20America.

(note the dot in the URL, it's because the article is so large it cannot coexist with other, non-Soviet encyclopedia articles on the USA on that website)

Names follow the format of surname and then first name, and some have middle names as well, particularly Slav names, thus: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Lenin%2c+Vladimir+Ilyich

If the Soviet encyclopedia doesn't look like it has an article, check to make sure. Scroll all the way down and look under "Full Browser," the articles with green squares next to them may be the Soviet encyclopedia titles, and occasionally under "Mentioned In." Also note that all of them will be under the category "Encyclopedia." So for instance entering "American Civil War" won't get you anything, but entering "Civil War in the United States, 1861�65, and the Reconstruction of the" will.

Since this was a comprehensive encyclopedia you can pretty much expect anything that existed as of 1982 to be in it, including unique stuff like various Marxist terms and figures.

Also, since the USSR took up its very own volume, you can find parts of it by searching terms like History, Economy, Foreign Policy, Constitution and Government, etc. Note also that some figures (like Trotsky, Bukharin or Yezhov) simply do not have articles.

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Enver Zogha: Nov 12, 2008; The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists.

So I didn't scan those African works yet, but I did manage to scan a book from 1943 on the Baltic states put out by Latvian social-democrat, called The Baltic Riddle.

Meanwhile a guy I know scanned a Soviet polemic from 1982 called Stop Terrorism! which examines groups like the Red Brigades and, well, doesn't like them.

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a shiny rock: Nov 13, 2009

thanks again op, i haven't personally read very much of it but i think preserving this sort of poo poo digitally is important and good

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Enver Zogha: Nov 12, 2008; The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists.

Among the works recently scanned are a history of attempts to overthrow the Soviet Republic in its formative period, a 1973 analysis of the politics and economy of Israel, and a 1989 Soviet study on workplace participation schemes in capitalist countries.

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