Unapologetically pro-Soviet and pro-Stalinist Book Recommendations

A year or so ago, I embarked on an in-depth study of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin. I knew that the publications which were heavily critical of the USSR and Stalinism far outnumbered those that were sympathetic to it, therefore I thought I would do well to read one pro-Soviet/pro-Stalininist text for every one anti-Soviet/anti-Stalinist.

Thus far, as far as pro-Soviet/pro-Stalinist books are concerned, I have read the following:

• Domenico Losurdo’s ‘Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend’

• Ludo Martens’ ‘Another View of Stalin’

• Grover Furr’s ‘Kruschev Lied;’ ‘The Murder of Sergei Kirov;’ ‘Yezhov vs. Stalin;’ ‘Blood Lies;’ ‘The Mystery of the Katyn Murder;’ ‘Stalin Waiting… For Truth’

• Ian Grey’s ‘Stalin, Man of History’

• Henri Barbusse’s ‘Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man’

• Robert W. Thurston’s ‘Life & Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934-1941’

• ‘History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) – Short Course’

• Anna Louise Strong’s ‘The Stalin Era’

• Douglas Tottle’s ‘Fraud, Famine and Fascism’

Apart from the works I have listed above, are there any other pro-Soviet and/or pro-Stalinist works that I could read?

Thanks!

by zbunch_