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To be more specific, I'm looking for unbiased biographies of Mao, Lenin, and Stalin. By "unbiased", I mean not clearly riddled in western propaganda or authors who are apologists. Also, it would help if you can tell me where I can download them as ebooks.

The only thing I found for Mao was Mao: The Unknown Story by Chang, and the Private life of Chairman Mao by Zhisui. Both are full of blatant hatred and Western propaganda of Mao, so they are full of shit. I can't find anything else in english though, there's a chinese one but it's sponsored by the CPC and is too long, so again it isn't reliable. For Stalin, It's like everything about that man is Western Propaganda, I can't find any unbiased source. I know Stalin isn't some saint and killed lots of people, but it's like Westerners believe that's all he did even in his free time! I saw one book say he killed 1 million soviet citizens per year, wtf! There is zero acknowledgments at all to the successes from his rule. The closest I found was from a former Soviet Historian using released Soviet Archives. Apparently he did one on Lenin too, and seems unbiased enough. For Lenin it's the same problems w/ propaganda. Albeit, I can rely on his own texts as well to get a view on him.

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[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend.

Red Star over China. This one isn't 'about' Mao, so much as the early days of the Chinese Revolution. Snow was a US journalist who gives a fair enough re-telling of the story.

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