I am one witness among many. One analyst among many. If you want to go deeper — into history, theory, and the writings of those who came before me — here is my curated reading list.
These are the books that shaped my understanding, confirmed my experience, and deepened my analysis.
BEGIN HERE
- Freedom Manifesto by Mikhail Nudelman — The Emotional Appeal and Destructive Reality of Collectivism. My complete witness testimony, fifteen personal stories, and the Democratic Destruction Cycle. Start here.
THE WITNESSES — Those Who Lived It
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Witness by Whittaker Chambers
- The God That Failed by Koestler, Silone, Wright, and others
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
THE DOCUMENTERS — Those Who Recorded History
- The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
- Mr. Jones — the story of Gareth Jones, Welsh journalist who exposed the Holodomor (Ukrainian famine, 1932-33)
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman (Pulitzer Prize)
- Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman
- Khrushchev on Khrushchev by Sergei Khrushchev, the son who helped smuggle his father's memoirs to the West
- Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei Khrushchev — explains Soviet military-industrial success despite systemic failure
THE ANALYSTS — Those Who Explained Why
- The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
- Socialism by Ludwig von Mises
- A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
- The Fatal Conceit by Friedrich Hayek
- Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell
THE DEFENDERS — Those Who Built the Alternative
- The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
- Free to Choose by Milton & Rose Friedman
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
THE WARNERS — Those Who Saw It Coming
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Bezmenov Lectures by Yuri Bezmenov (video)