Humanizing Books on The USSR 

Also John Reed’s wife Louise Bryant authored Six Red Months in Russia. It’s a very interesting first-hand account to the development of the Soviet Union immediately after the 1917 revolution.

Thanks for the book recommendations, Lady Izdihar! Please, upload more often!

I can't thank you enough for this video.I have struggled to find books that are not biased on anti Soviet Union government and people. I love what you are doing with this channel. Please, keep up the good work. I love Soviet Union history and I am so glad I found this channel.

John Reed is held in high regard in Russia. He’s buried in the Kremlin near Lenin.

Finally , I get a new video from this channel.

Found your work after seeing you on The Deprogram. You are doing such amazing work and your website is phenomenal!

Thank you for the book recommendations. Highyl appreciated. Always wanted to read about the life in Soviet Union.

I have learned so much thanks to you and your content. Thank you very much for the recommendations.

Positivity in leftist spaces can be hard to find at times and I've desperately been searching for means not to escape my passion for change, but the growing fatalism that comes with it. Seems like others are feeling the same as I am starting to find more intentionally positive media slowly cropping up amongst the Marxists. A positive bias has its place. Thanks for sharing, comrade! I appreciate your work.

Great recommendations, I was looking for something like this for quite a while. BTW, where is your clothing style from?

I love this video and am in love with the soviet porcelain pieces. Thanks for showing up on this platform when I'm going through hard times. Love your work comrade, assalamu alaikum!

Thank you for all your work, I will always lament the reactionary blowback against your vital educational content, take it from me as a gay American, an Islamic perspective on leftist theory and history is always welcome and furthermore vital, never stop lady Izdihar, solidarity forever! Free palestine!

Thanks for the book recommendations. I really appreciate your work in Humanizing Soviet History, especially at a time when only a few people are speaking and documenting Soviet Union history in the right way. Keep up the excellent work, and I look forward to more enriching content from you!

Great stuff, cheers! :) Also, a tip on your sound - use a high-pass filter (Audacity has it) and set it to 100 Hz to get rid of that low-frequency hum and rustle. With your voice, you can experiment with higher frequencies, but 100 should do the trick without affecting the voice. Also, record the room without any voice. Just a second or two, and insert that clip at cuts to avoid dips in sound (like at 0:50).

Noice, I have 10 days that shook the world

Cool suggestions!

Thank you for the recommendations, Lady Izdihar.

It is kind of criminal that the algorithm didn't make me aware of this channel earlier.

excited to learn more about USSR!! thank you! found you through the Deprogram podcast and love your content ❤

This is such an interesting angle, I never even considered learning about the USSR this way. Thank you very much.

Any other recommendations for Soviet photography books? I just ordered the one you suggested. Much thanks!

I was thinking about buying "The "Soviets Expected It"! Definitely going to buy it now! I appreciate your work in humanizing the Soviet Union.

People who like this channel may also appreciate on RU-vid “Enfants de l’est” lots of Soviet cultural history

Near the end of the video, the part about western journalists belittling everyday work and the people who do it: 🤬 If that isn't just a perfect snapshot of the bourgeois worldview.

Great video, and I love that photography book

Two neutral accounts I found fascinating were Soviet Russia by Jawaharlal Nehru and Theodore Dreiser and the Soviet Union. Both take place around the 1927 anniversary of the October revolution.

I would love to see some of your favorite stuff from that Russian decorative art book you showed! looks so cool

Thank you for the suggestions! I really admire your work!

Thanks for the reading suggestions.

Yooooo Russia without illusions I've been suggesting that one for a year now.

Love your content both here and TikTok :) I’m so curious if there’s a meaning behind the name Izdihar?

All of these books are going into my backlog, I'm specially interested in the one about photography

Wonderful! I am curious if you have any recommendations concerning the experiences of the many indigenous peoples of the USSR?

I added them all to this year's reading list. Thanks for the tips

Thank you for your work and passsion!

Great recommendations, thank you!

Thanks so much😊

We missed your videos! Hope all is well❤

Thank-you for the book recommendations. Where can we get them from?

Earlier today I happened to for “book” on your channel to find if you had a list not just to religion, very convenient timing

John Reed has the same birthday as Roddy Ricch, haha! Brings to mind Coretti Arle-Titz, an American musician who experienced Russia. Anyway, I'm checking that booklist out.

Thank you for the recommendations! Your final comment reminded me of a section from the book I'm currently reading on Canadian-Soviet relations during the interwar years. There was a manufactured hysteria surrounding anthracite imports from the Soviet Union to Canada, and there was much agitation against normal trade relations due to the alleged conditions of slavery under which the Soviet people worked. There was also the false notion that such trade would impact coal mining jobs in Atlantic Canada, and that trade would give money to the Communists and aid their "destruction of Christianity," as claimed by many aggrieved Catholics. All the same tropes have been used against Russia and other nations today. The trade of timber from Soviet Russia was carried out by "convicts," Russian furs were of higher quality than Canadian and could be obtained by travelling to the United States... The practice of "dumping" where Russian products were made available in large quantities on the market for better prices than their Western competitors produced vitriolic attacks in Parliaments because of the fundamental ideological differences between the capitalist demand for profits and the Soviet need for industrialisation and mass employment. The capitalists were in quite a frenzy due to their inability to compete with the Soviet economy!

You look so nicely dressed in your outfit

I just bought Our Russian Front.... another version of the soviets expected it

Do you know any good books about the DDR/GDR?

Excellent recommendations! Do you know if any of those books are available to buy?

Great recommendations!

I really like Lady Izdihar. I am a member of the Communist Party of China and I will work harder in my studies and work in the future. At the same time, my English is so poor that I can't hear the blogger's sharing clearly. I need to improve my English listening and reading skills well.

I have a video idea maybe you should make a video about Maps you own

Thank you! BTW I am part way through Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant .I am told she does not end well. I read most of what Kristen Ghodsee wrote, starting with Lost in Transition. Non books include the great movie Reds, maybe We the living which is very romantic with the male lead being a communist. Not what expected from the author. You Tube channels by Setarko, Ushanka Show, and some of Bald and Bankrupt (e.g. the Moldova playlist - Transnistria), and also realreporter. The books from this video Ten Days that Shook the World,, John Reed. Through the Russian Revolution, Albert Rhys Williams Russia Without Illusions, Pat Sloan The Soviets Expected It or The Stalin Era by Anna Louis Stromg Red Valkyries by Kristen Ghodsee TOLSTOI, VLADIMIR PAVLOVICH Russian Decorative Arts, 1917-1937 / Vladimir Tolsto Soviet Photography: An Age Of Realism Hardcover - January 27, 1985 by Sergei Morozov (Author), Valerie Lloyd (Author)

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Are there any books on Soviet fashion/design that you’d recommend?

do you know any good texts on China? Cultural Revolution era, revolutionary era Chinese history etc. texts in the west tend to be really heavily opinionated, and while I guess I could read translated Chinese books from the era? I’d like ideally something that, while not aggressively and nakedly “anticommunist”, can make critique or address any negative elements as well

Glory to the SSR.

Do you have any material for how the Soviet Union treated orphans specifically? I have a personal interest in this topic and id like be more educated and get past the propaganda around it. Thanks!

Hello Lady Izdihar, I follow your videos. Just a curiosity, what country are you from?

hey hey I don't see any Ok Waleed's Pedagogy of Alkebulan Diaspora on here

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Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Szymanski is a killer book. I definitely recommend anyone interested in how the USSR was actually more humane than the US (using US data).

Could you recommend a good, positive biography of Lenin? Love your work ♥️

I love LIs content on you tube I would like to know how she feels about the murder of Hussein at Karbala?

You're so cool.

I definately think the Soviet Union was a mostly positive experiment and its colllapse was an absolute tragedy.Its a shame that anyone pro soviet is dismissed by the mainstream as deluded. Thank you so much for the work you do. If theres an Allah, I think youre doing his work. Maybe even the anti religious Soviets were doing his work without knowing it. Im not religious, but Ive seen some strange things. Who knows?

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This is a wonderful video, I really love this. You're always so positive, and showing these more positive books really gives us optimism as Marxists!

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I learned you're located in Belfair. I'm not far in Concrete skagit , I'm getting a Marxist club going at the library. See you around comrade.

I love you 😃 😍

what about books on the millions killed by the USSR ?

If only we could all live in Stalin’s USSR of the 1930s

I admire your faith in Allah by wearing the hijab, and I did find your channel interesting but I am a little lost on your stance on the ссср. Are you a communist sister, or a observer? I don't want to sound like I am attacking you becasue I am not, but I would like to know as a woman who has a dean what are you doing with a very educated passion with communisim, and the ссср? If you do get to read this I am honored but I would like to get a reply to answer my question, Assalamualaikum u rakhmatula barakat!

As a person from a Post-Soviet country, I am deeply appalled and disgusted by this video and such a perception of the Soviet Union. Please read books by the victims of Soviet terror, by scholars who studied Holodomor and Soviet repressions, among many other things😢or take a ticket to North Korea and get an insight into what the life of ordinary people in Soviet Union looked like

Hilarious given that the Soviet Union existed to dehumanize all of us.

And the Russian Bots begin!

Can you make a video on humanizing nazi germany

Do you have any recommendations on good reads about the Bolsheviks I can readily pick up? Thanks in advance love the channel.