Level 1: The Russian Revolution, Stalin’s Crimes, the Counterrevolution
Stalin: Fifty Years After the Death of a Tyrant – Alan Woods (And Part Two)
Ten Days That Shook the World – John Reed
Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution – Alan Woods
Russia: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution – Ted Grant (Foreward; Introduction; Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six; Part Seven; Part Eight; Part Nine; Part Ten; Part Eleven; Part Twelve; Appendix One)
Level 2: Trotsky, Lenin, and the Revolution
Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For – Ted Grant and Alan Woods
The Character of the Russian Revolution – Leon Trotsky
The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution – Lenin
The Struggle for State Power – Leon Trotsky
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? – Lenin
The History of the Russian Revolution – Leon Trotsky
The Principles of Democracy and the Proletarian Dictatorship – Leon Trotsky
Theses on the Constituent Assembly – Lenin
Terrorism and Communism – Leon Trotsky
Better Fewer, But Better – Lenin
Level 3: After Lenin’s Death: Trotsky’s Struggle Against Stalinism
On the Suppressed Testament of Lenin – Leon Trotsky
How Did Stalin Defeat the Opposition? – Leon Trotsky
The Third International After Lenin – Leon Trotsky
Stalinism and Bolshevism – Leon Trotsky
The Revolution Betrayed: A Marxist Masterpiece – Alan Woods
The Revolution Betrayed – Leon Trotsky
The Stalin School of Falsification – Leon Trotsky
Not a Workers’ and Not a Bourgeois State? – Leon Trotsky
The Class Nature of the Soviet State – Leon Trotsky
In Defense of the Russian Revolution – Leon Trotsky
Level 3: Fighting Against Stalinism After Trotsky’s Death
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International – Ted Grant
Stalinism in the Postwar World – Ted Grant
Bureaucratism or Workers’ Power – Ted Grant and Roger Silverman
Against the Theory of State Capitalism – Ted Grant
Czachoslovakia: The Issues Involved – Ted Grant (1948)
The Chinese Revolution – Ted Grant
From: The Colonial Revolution and the Deformed Workers’ States- Ted Grant
Level 4: Before the Russian Revolution