Scanning Soviet books

If you upload copyrighted stuff, expect it to be taken down eventually. Stuff on archive.org is supposed to be in the public domain.

I haven't actually read them. I assume they're not masterpieces, but are decent intros to the subjects they cover.

As an aside, there are two books I will be putting online tonight: "ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism" (a 1976 Soviet work discussing both subjects for newcomers) and "On Dialectical Materialism" (a compilation of writings by Marx, Engels and Lenin on the subject.)

There's already a Marx-Engels-Lenin compilation of writings by them on historical materialism: b-ok.cc/book/855166/1d2d74

i'd read that.

Do any of these titles talk about how Stalin shat himself when Hitler invaded?(i.imgur.com/FgPmy.jpg)

Literally who?

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yeah, nothing scarier then frozen nazicles

Here are the two works I mentioned yesterday:
* archive.org/details/ABCDialecticalHistoricalMaterialism
* archive.org/details/DialecticalMaterialismMarxEngelsLenin

Soviet works after 1964 purposefully downplay Stalin. I scanned a 600-page history of the USSR published in 1982 and he's mentioned ten times while alive and once or twice in connection with the 20th Party Congress. Other Soviet history texts I have from the Brezhnev period mention him even less.

In regards to the non-aggression pact and the start of Nazi aggression, the official History of the CPSU published in 1960 states:

bump again

I am going to name my pet baboon "Ismail"

be sure to choose the smartest baboon

As I said I would in the first post, I've now scanned "The International Working-Class Movement: History and theory":

* archive.org/details/IntWorkingClassMovVol1 - The Origins of the Proletariat and Its Evolution as a Revolutionary Class
* archive.org/details/IntWorkingClassMovVol2 - The Working-Class Movement in the Period of Transition to Imperialism (1871-1904)
* archive.org/details/IntWorkingClassMovVol3 - Revolutionary Battles of the Early 20th Century
* archive.org/details/IntWorkingClassMovVol4 - The Socialist Revolution in Russia and the International Working Class (1917-1923)
* archive.org/details/IntWorkingClassMovVol5 - The Builder of Socialism and Fighter Against Fascism
* archive.org/details/IntWorkingClassMovVol6 - The Working-Class Movement in the Developed Capitalist Countries After the Second World War (1945-1979)

Maybe you can teach it to scan books. Then it'd basically be me except hairier.

Buharin's ABC's are wrong and harmful. Cockshott made a whole video about it too.

What tools/software do you use for scanning?

The ABC book is not by Bukharin, it's an introduction to dialectical and historical materialism written in the 1970s.

ABBYY FineReader.

What about hardware? I live in Paris and our national library holds a large catalog of historical collections, but I am not sure which books whould be useful to scan. Maybe French authors?
gallica.bnf.fr/
catalogue.bnf.fr/

It would seem a lot of material already got scanned by the library itself.
data.bnf.fr/fr/11906209/jules_guesde/
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5468998x/f8.image
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5455283v/f7.image
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k860420/f5.image
gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5812947b/f7.image

I wouldn't know anything about French-language stuff.

As I said, all I use is a scanner and ABBYY FineReader to edit the pages and turn them into a PDF.

Hey! We used to be on a forum together! I've been thinking about starting it up again, idk how you'd feel about coming back though.

As long as Zig Forums exists, I think it has proven to be quite sufficient for discussion and quite accessible as well.

Sure, I am actually pretty new here (used to be on 4chan way back when) and I appreciate a lot that is here, however there are some things I like about forums in regards to the narratives of drama and shit that occur.

4chan and reddit are both abominations on the forum format. the former offers way too much anonymity giving trolls a platform to shitpost on incessantly with zero repercussions, and reddit goes in the complete opposite direction by adding democracy and turning it into a circlejerk hellhole with zero wiggleroom to offend anyone.
the only reason forums died and these didn't is because forums don't appeal to the worse aspects of human nature, while 4chan and reddit generate traffic like a free porn site.

Waiiiiiiittttt

Lol I use gallica.bnf.fr all the time and I have talked to the marxists.org guy who does french->English translations and he said that's his source as well

I have my own forum nowadays (eregime.org)

I don't actually know anything about Alain Badiou, it just sounded like a nice pseudonym.

Meanwhile, the next book I am going to scan is "In Place of Profit" from 1933, about the material and moral incentives the Soviet government used to promote production as well as discussions of working-class initiative, the nature of the state, and culture.

Alain Badiou's book on cinema (called "Cinema") is pretty good, especially if you're a fan of Jean-Luc Godard, who he references a lot

Any old RL members on there?

A few.

Meanwhile, I've now scanned "In Place of Profit: Social Incentives in the Soviet Union," a 1933 work by a non-communist examining how moral and material incentives were employed in production, as well as other subjects like how workers' initiative was encouraged: archive.org/details/InPlaceOfProfit

Thank you for also adding to leddit. It's clear you are doing this for purely socialistic reasons–sharing information. I might also recommend facebook.com/groups/850609558335839/files/ for the comrades on leftbook.

God, we are so splintered and so divided. Someday there will be a website for us all.

I just scanned the 1100-page "Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?" from 1936:

* archive.org/details/SovietCommunismVolOne
* archive.org/details/SovietCommunismVolTwo

It was a big deal when it came out. The authors, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, were initially opposed to the Bolsheviks (although Lenin had translated one of their works into Russian), but had decided after the Great Depression to seriously research the USSR, amassing books and articles as well as visiting the country in 1932 and '34. The result was a detailed account by two non-Marxists of just about every major aspect of Soviet society: the government, factories and agriculture, incentives to work, trade unions, education, health, justice, recreation, etc.

Thanks based Ismail, thank you