…we now have an entire generation of Americans born after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and USSR. They didn’t live through the mass repression and carnage that was Soviet communism. They need to learn about it, just as my generation learned the evils of Nazism.” (author Paul Kengor)

There is more than one generation who believes that Marxism is cool, or that stories of communism are exaggerated. It’s easy to recognize someone who hasn’t read any stories from the victims of communism.

This must change, and it starts with you and me.

At Knowledge Keepers, we are all about preserving, reading, and passing on the knowledge of past generations in the form of the written word. We believe every home should have a library, and that library should include as many biographies, letters, journals, and other firsthand accounts as possible.

Know this: videos, articles, and blog posts with true stories of communism are routinely scrubbed from the web. This is one of the most important topics to collect in printed form so that the stories are not lost. This is a case of not learning history and being doomed to repeat it.

So in the interest of knowledge and preservation, we present this (not exhaustive) list of books on communism that every American should buy, read, and share with their descendants.

Ronald Reagan called communism a “disease,” but it’s hard to find a 20th-century disease that killed as many. He put it better when he called communism “evil” and “a form of insanity.” And yet, so much of this evil insanity isn’t known, or being taught, especially in our universities.” (Paul Kengor)

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1. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism by Paul Kengor
2. The Black Book of Communism
3. The Devil and Karl Marx by Paul Kengor
4. Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism by Richard Wurmbrand
5. Death by Government by R. J. Rummel
6. August 1914 by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
7. The Gulag Archipelago by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
8. Warning to the West by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
9. Fifty Russian Winters by Margaret Wettlin
10. Bitter Waters by Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov
11. Jacques the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag by Jaques Rossi
12. Cancer Ward by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
13. They Changed My China by Molly Wong
14. To the Edge of the Sky: A true story of life in China under Mao by Anhua Gao
15. Red Sorrow: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Nanchu 
16. Restricted Nations: North Korea (Voice of the Martyrs)
17. The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese by Robinson Risner
18. God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew
19. Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand
20. Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba  by Stephen Purvis
21. Love Letter to America by Tomas Schuman
22. Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
23. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

Critical Race Theory is a Marxian Theory that views whiteness as bourgeois property to be abolished through racial class conflict.” ― James A. Lindsay, Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis

Modern Marxism

1. American Marxism by Mark Levin
2. Race Marxism by James Lindsay
3. Mao’s America by Xi Van Fleet
4. The Marxification of Education by James Lindsay
5. Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

I have a comprehensive blog post called Teach Your Kids the Truth About Communism at NickiTruesdell.com. If you have kids (in school or in college), please take the time to educate them on this important topic.