Comrades : a world history of communism by Robert ServiceThis book offers a succession of incisive pen-portraits of outstanding leaders and decisive events and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on material from many national collections and several major languages, and shows that there was more to communism than mere brutality.
Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy: Marxism and Critical TheoryMarxist literary theories tend to focus on the representation of class conflict as well as the reinforcement of class distinctions through the medium of literature. Marxist theorists use traditional techniques of literary analysis but subordinate aesthetic concerns to the final social and political meanings of literature.