Communist morality / [compiled by N. Bychkova, R. Lavrov and V. Lubisheva].

This book is a compilation of excerpts from various prominent communist writers.

Includes portraits of the included writers and some facsimile reproductions of the original texts.

Includes index.

K. Marx, F. Engels : K. Marx and F. Engels. From the Manifesto of the Communist Party -- K. Marx and F. Engels. From the Article "Thoughts of a young man on choosing a profession" -- From the poems of the young Marx -- K. Marx and F. Engels. From the introduction to "On the criticism of the Hegelian philosophy of right" -- K. Marx. From the holy family or critique of critical critique -- F. Engels. From the Elberfeld speeches -- F. Engels. From the principle of communism -- Marx's confessions -- K. Marx. From a letter to S. Meyer -- K. Marx. Letter to F. Engels -- K. Marx. From a letter to Engels -- F. Engels. From a letter to E. Blank -- K. Marx. From the civil war in France -- K. Marx. From a letter to W. Blois -- F. Engels. From anti-Dühring -- F. Engels. From the speech at the graveside of Karl Marx -- F. Engels. From the origin of the family, private property and the state -- F. Engels. From a letter to Gertrude Guillaume-Schak -- F. Engels. From the introduction to Marx's wage labour and capital --

V. Lenin : From the article "Frederick Engels" -- From the article "A retrograde trend in Russian social-democracy" -- From a letter to P.N. Lepeshinsky -- From the article "Party organisation and party literature" -- From the article "the attituude of the workers' party to religion" -- From the article "once more on partyism and non-partyism" -- From an obituary "Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin" -- From the article "corrupting the workers with refined nationalism" -- From the article "the right of nations to self-determination" -- Letter to Inessa Armand -- From the article "who are you laughing at? laughing at yourselves!" -- From the article "political blackmail" -- From the article "how to organise competition" -- From the article "the immediate tasks of the Soviet government" -- From the article "a little picture to explain bug questions" -- From the article "Reply to an enquiry from a peasant" -- From the article "a great beginning". Heroism of the workers in the rear. "Communist subbotniks" -- From the article "the workers' state and party week" -- From the article "results of the party week in Moscow, and our tasks" -- From the speech at the first All-Russian Inaugural Congress of Mineworkers -- From the article "From the destruction of the age-old order to the creation of the new" -- From the article "from the first subbotnik on the Moscow-Kazan railway to the All-Russian May-day subbotnik" -- V.I. Lenin on communist morality (from Clara Zetkin's reminiscences) -- The tasks of the Youth Leagues (from the speech delivered at the third All-Russian Congress of the Russian Young Communist League), October 2, 1920 -- From the report "The new economic policy and the tasks of political education" delivered at the Second All-Russian Congress of Political Education Workers --

Problems of morality and education in the programme of the C.P.S.U. : V. the tasks of the Party in the spheres of ideology, education, instruction, science, and culture ... : 1. In the field of development of communist consciousness -- 2. In the field of public education -- ...4. In the field of cultural development, literature and art -- ...VII. The party in the period of full-scale communist construction --

F. Dzerzhinsky : From a prison diary -- From letters to relatives : To A.E. Bulhak -- To A.E. and G.A. Bulhak -- To A.E. Bulhak -- To S.S. Dzerzhinskaya -- To A.E. Bulhak -- To S.S. Dzerzhinskaya -- To V.E. Dzerzhinskaya -- To S.S. Dzerzhinskaya -- To A.E. Bulhak -- From the article "citizens! railwaymen!" -- From the article " waifs and the Vecheka" -- From the circular letter to the managements of syndicates and trusts to red directors --

M. Kalinin : From the speech at the fifth All-Russian Congress of the Russian Young Communist League -- From the greetings to the First All-Union Congress to Teachers -- From the pamphlet on the road to socialism. On the results of the fourteenth All-Union Congress of the C.P.S.U. (Bolsheviks) -- The struggle for the new man. From the speech at the celebration meeting on the tenth anniversary of the Komsomol -- Develop yourselves in every way. From the speech at a conference of leading members of the Young Communist League Organisation in Dniepropetrovsk -- From the speech at a conference of best urban and rural school teachers convened by the editorial board of Uchitelskaya Gazeta -- From the speech at a celebration meeting in honour of decorated rural school teachers -- On communist education. From the speech at a meeting of pupils of eighth, ninth, and tenth grades of secondary schools of Lenin District, Moscow -- Some problems of party mass work. From the speech at a conference of patty workers of Moscow plants -- From the article "militant aide of the Bolshevik Party". On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Komsomol -- From the article "the moral make-up of our people"

S. Kirov : From letters to M.L. Markus -- From the speech at a meeting in the public gardens, Astrakhan -- From the report at the First City Delegate meeting of Astrakhan women workers -- From the report at the First city delegate meeting of Tiflis party workers and trade unionists -- From the speech at the opening session of the first Conference of Georgian trade unions -- From the report at a meeting of the communist groups of the congress of chairman of Uyezd, Volost and city executive committee of Leningrad -- From a speech at the celebration meeting of the seventh Leningrad Gubernia congress of trade unions -- From the report at a city meeting of Leningrad propagandists -- From the speech at the celebration meeting of the Leningrad Soviet on the tenth anniversary of the October socialist revolution -- Revolutionary, devoted work is what is required from every Bolshevik --

N. Krupskaya : From the speech at the sixth congress of the Russian Leninist Young Communist League -- From the article "Lenin as a man" -- From the article "Lenin on Communist morality" -- From a letter to A.M. Gorky -- Letter to working men and women at the Trekhgornaya Manufaktura mills -- From a letter to the party and Komsomol members, the factory committee, the management and the entire collective of the Clara Zetkin factory -- Letter to a budding writer --

N. Khrushchov : From the report of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the 20th Party Congress -- From the speech at the meeting of Komsomol members and the youth of Moscow on the occasion of the departure of the first group of volunteers for construction sites in the East of the USSR -- From the answers to questions put by the editors of Rude Pravo -- From the speech at a reception at the embassy of the People's Republic of Bulgaria -- From the speech "For a closer bond between literature and art and the life of the people" -- From the speech at a Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship meeting in Ostrava during the visit of Soviet party and government delegation to Czechoslovakia -- From the answers to questions put by J. Reston, New York Times chief diplomatic correspondent -- From the interview given to Henry Shapiro, correspondent of United Press Agency -- From the answers to questions put by Brazilian journalists Victorio Martorelli and Tito Fleury -- From the interview given to W.R. Hearst, US newspaper magnate -- From the speech at the ninth session of the USSR Supreme Soviet (fourth convocation) -- From the speech at the Thirteenth Congress of the Komsomol -- From the report on the control figures for the economic development of the USSR for 1959-1965 at the 21st extraordinary congress of the CPSU -- From a speech at the plenary meeting of the central committee of the CPSU "For a further rise in the country's productive forces, for technical progress in all branches of the national economy" -- From the speech at the All-Russian Congress of Teachers -- From the report "for the new victories of the world communist movement" -- From the speech at the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the CPSU "improvement in the well-being of the people and the tasks for further increasing the output of agricultural products" -- From the report of the central committee of the CPSU to the 22nd Congress of the Party -- On the programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- From the concluding speech at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU -- From the speech "all forces for the successful implementation of the historic decisions of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU -- From the speech at the Moscow conference of workers in agriculture from the regions and autonomous republics of the non-Chernozem zones of the RSFSR -- From the speech at the fourteenth congress of the Komsomol.

"This work is a compilation of excerpts from Marx and Engels, Lenin, and notable Soviet, communist writers and politicians focused on the idea of morality and ethics under communism. Published by Moscow-based Progress Publishers, it draws on official speeches and reports from the Soviet Union. It does not contain any editorial material from the compilers or any commentary on the included works themselves, but its inclusions from official speeches and reports and from esoteric archival material like letters and articles are of interest." -- From the cataloguer.

This work was originally published in English, but contains translations from German and Russian of the various included excerpts.