The ABC of Communism

The ABC of Communism
First edition cover
AuthorNikolai Bukharin and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Original titleRussian: Азбука коммунизма
LanguageRussian
Publication date
1920

The ABC of Communism (Russian: Азбука коммунизма, Azbuka Kommunizma) is a book written by Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky in 1920, during the Russian Civil War.[1] Originally written to convince the proletariat of Russia to support the Bolsheviks, it became "an elementary textbook of communist knowledge".[2][3] It became the best known and most widely circulated of all pre-Stalinist expositions of Bolshevism and the most widely read political work in Soviet Russia.[4][5]

  1. ^ Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky: The ABC of Communism. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  2. ^ The ABC of Communism: can socialism work?. Socialist Worker, 17 July 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  3. ^ Goodwin, James (1993). Eisenstein, Cinema, and History. University of Illinois Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780252062698.
  4. ^ Cohen, Stephen F. (1980). Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938. Oxford University Press US. pp. 64–65. ISBN 9780195026979.
  5. ^ English, Robert D. (2000). Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War. Columbia University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780231110594.