The Greatest Books of All Time on Communism

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
61 The Golden Notebook Doris May Lessing 1962 British English
566 I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal 1983 Czech Czech
999 Chevengur Andrey Platonov 1928 Russian Russian
1184 Mr Norris Changes Trains Christopher Isherwood 1935 British English
1704 Celestial Harmonies Peter Esterhazy 2000 Hungarian Hungarian
1824 The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Škvorecký 1977 Czech Czech
2205 The Quest for Christa T. Christa Wolf 1968 German German
2206 The Gate of Heavenly Peace Jonathan Spence 1981 American English
2292 The Big Nowhere James Ellroy 1988 American English
3079 Paradise of the Blind Dương Thu Hương 1988 Vietnamese Vietnamese
4814 Happy Moscow Andrey Platonov 1991 Russian Russian
5438 Communism In Spain In The Franco Era Jorge Semprún 1980 Spanish Spanish
5813 The City Of The Sun Tommaso Campanella 1623 Italian Latin
6217 Indul A Bakterház Sándor Rideg 1973 Hungarian Hungarian
6623 Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima 1993 Czech Czech
6683 The Opium Of The Intellectuals Raymond Aron 1955 French French
6795 An Analysis Of The Communist System Milovan Djilas 1957 Serbian Serbo-croatian
6882 The Haunted Land Tina Rosenberg 1995 American English
6969 Six Studies In Communism Arthur Koestler, Richard Crossman 1960 Multiple English
7086 A Short Border Handbook Gazmend Kapllani 2009 Greek Albanian
7915 Spring Flowers, Spring Frost Ismail Kadare 2000 Albanian Albanian
7997 Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 American English
9756 Fire in the Lake Frances FitzGerald 1972 American English
10161 The Confession; Liberation Movements Olen Steinhauer 2004 American English
10193 Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson 1997 American English
10308 The Conquest Of Bread Petr Kropotkin 1892 Russian French
11663 The Rosenberg File Ronald Radosh, Joyce Milton 1983 American English
12515 How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Slavenka Drakulic 1991 Croatian English
12834 Fifty Russian Winters Margaret Wettlin 1992 American English
13795 艷陽天 Hao Ran 1964 Chinese Chinese
14023 The Man Who Stayed Behind Sidney Rittenberg 1993 American English
14554 Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation Of China Ezra F. Vogel 2011 American English
14985 The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver 2009 American English
14985 The Battle For Spain Antony Beevor 2006 British English
15914 Part Of Our Time Murray Kempton 1955 American English
15914 Red Star Over China Edgar Snow 1937 American English
15914 Listen, Yankee C. Wright Mills 1960 American English
16646 Fanshen William Hinton 1966 American English
17162 How Democracies Perish Jean François Revel 1983 French French
17069 Dulce Ca Mierea E Glonțul Patriei Petru Popescu 1974 Romanian Romanian
17162 Black Bolshevik Harry Haywood 1978 American English
17162 Anatomy Of A War Gabriel Kolko 1985 American English