SECTION 1: THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: THE SOVIET UNION MANUFACTURED A FAMINE IN UKRAINE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: THE SOVIET UNION MANUFACTURED A FAMINE IN UKRAINE

• RESOURCE 1: Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle
• RESOURCE 2: The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
• RESOURCE 3: Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933 by Mark Tauger
• RESOURCE 4: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft
• RESOURCE 5: Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union by Mario Sousa

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE SOVIET UNION REPRESSED AND KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

• RESOURCE 1: The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy
• RESOURCE 2: Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Syzmanski
• RESOURCE 3: Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens
• RESOURCE 4: Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives by Getty and Manning
• RESOURCE 5: Origins of the Great Purges by J. Arch Getty
• RESOURCE 6: The Road to Terror by J. Arch Getty
• RESOURCE 7: Other studies by historian by J. Arch Getty
• RESOURCE 8: The Legacy of Stalinism by “brown-eggs”
• RESOURCE 9: Khrushchev Lied by Grover Furr
• RESOURCE 10: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
• RESOURCE 11: Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’ Is False by Grover Furr

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 3: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE EASTERN BLOC HAD NO DEMOCRACY

• RESOURCE 1: Soviet Communism: A New Civilization by Sydney and Beatrice Webb
• RESOURCE 2: Is the Red Flag Flying? by Albert Syzmanski
• RESOURCE 3: Socialism Betrayed by Keeran and Kenny
• RESOURCE 4: Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–1941 by Robert Thurston
• RESOURCE 5: Democracy, East Germany, and the Berlin Wall by Stephen Gowans
• RESOURCE 6: The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism by V.L. Allen
• RESOURCE 7: The 1936 Soviet Constitution
• RESOURCE 8: Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 4: SOCIALISM IS AN ECONOMIC FAILURE

• RESOURCE 1: Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work? by Stephen Gowans
• RESOURCE 2: From Farm to Factory by Robert Allen
• RESOURCE 3: The Rise of Socialism by William Foster
• RESOURCE 4: We Lived Better Then by Stephen Gowans
• RESOURCE 5: The Need for Planning by Joseph Ball

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 5: EVERYBODY HATED SOCIALISM

• RESOURCE 1: Homesick for a Dictatorship
• RESOURCE 2: 60% of Russians Want Communism Back
• RESOURCE 3: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup
• RESOURCE 4: Russians say Aug 1991 events are tragedy, not triumph of democracy
• RESOURCE 5: Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism
• RESOURCE 6: Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength
• RESOURCE 7: Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR
• RESOURCE 8: Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period
• RESOURCE 9: Freest Under Czech Communism!
• RESOURCE 10: Seven Myths about the USSR by Stephen Gowans

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 6: LIFE UNDER SOCIALISM WAS TERRIBLE

• RESOURCE 1: An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now by F.S.
• RESOURCE 2: Growing Up Under Communism Was The Happiest Time Of My Life by Zsuzsanna Clark

SECTION 2: THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: MAO KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

• RESOURCE 1:Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? by Joseph Ball
• RESOURCE 2:Monster or Liberator? by Carlos Martinez
• RESOURCE 3: The Battle for China’s Past by Mobo Gao
• RESOURCE 4: Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s “Mao: The Unknown Story” by Benton and Chun
• RESOURCE 5: How did Mao manage to kill ~78 million people? by Godfree Roberts

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CHINA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP

• RESOURCE 1: The Rise of the Chinese People’s Communes by Anna Louise Strong
• RESOURCE 2: The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of the Cultural Revolution by E. L. Wheelwright
• RESOURCE 3: Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
• RESOURCE 4: Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
• RESOURCE 5: Turning Point in China: An Essay on the Cultural Revolution by William Hinton

SECTION 3: CUBA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: CHE WAS A BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHER

• RESOURCE 1: Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
• RESOURCE 2: Debunking the ‘Che Guevara Was Racist!’ Lie by Cuervo Rojo

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CUBA HAS NO DEMOCRACY AND IS A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE

• RESOURCE 1: 20 Reasons to Support Cuba
• RESOURCE 2: Cuba: A Revolution in Motion by Isaac Saney
• RESOURCE 3: Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion by Arnold August + http://www.democracyintheus.com/
• RESOURCE 4: Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet
• RESOURCE 5: All in This Together: Cuba’s Participatory Democracy
• RESOURCE 6: The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba’s Municipal Elections by Arnold August
• RESOURCE 7: 2002 Cuban Constitution
• RESOURCE 8: Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba by Linda Fuller

SECTION 4: THE DPRK

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: NORTH KOREANS BELIEVE IN UNICORNS AND THEY THINK KIM JONG-UN IS IMMORTAL

• RESOURCE 1: Western DPRK Propaganda: The Worst, Occasionally Hilarious, and Often Racist, Lies by Alyx Mayer
• RESOURCE 2: Anti-DPRK Propaganda War – a Cavalcade of Comedy by Red Youth
• RESOURCE 3: Tourist who took camera inside North Korea shocked by ‘ordinary’ lives of citizens

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE DPRK IS A FASCIST MONARCHY

• RESOURCE 1: Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea by Vince Sherman
• RESOURCE 2: How to Think about Socialism in Korea
• RESOURCE 3: Understanding North Korea by Stephen Gowans
• RESOURCE 4: A Model of Democratic and Participatory Socialist Planning by MasCapital
• RESOURCE 5: Constitution of the DPRK
• RESOURCE 6: Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development by Brun and Hersch
• RESOURCE 7: Interview: Understanding and Defending North Korea
• RESOURCE 8: Democracy: US vs DPRK – Towards the Annihilation of a Narrative
• RESOURCE 9: The secret genocide in South Korea you’ve probably never heard of

SECTION 5: THE PEOPLE’S (SOCIALIST) REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: ALBANIA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP

• RESOURCE 1: Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People by William Ash
• RESOURCE 2: Insights into Socialist Albania from ‘Pickaxe and Rifle’