Communists -- Biography
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Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist (c2011), by Bert Whyte, ed. by Larry Hannant (PDF with commentary at AU Press)- A Noble Cause Betrayed, But Hope Lives On: Pages from a Political Life, by John Boyd (HTML with commentary at socialisthistory.ca)
- Notes From the Gallows (New York: New Century Publishers, 1948), by Julius Fučík (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Singing Detainee and the Librarian with One Book: Essays on Exile (new edition; Punctum Books, 2025), by Michael S. Beltran
- S. P. Bunting: A Political Biography, by Edward Roux (HTML in South Africa)
- Minnesota, Moscow, Manhattan: Gus Hall's Life and Political Line Until the Late 1960s (Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium #79; Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2020), by Tuomas Savonen (PDF at scientiarum.fi)
- Looking for the Future: A Personal Connection to Yesterday's Great Expectations, Today's Reality, and Tomorrow's Hope (c1995), by Leon Wofsy (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
- W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)
- Emma Goldman: Biographical Sketch (New York: Libertarian Book Club, 1960), by Charles Allan Madison
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Communists- The Bolsheviki and the American Workers (New York: American Bolshevist Bureau of Information, ca. 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Bolsheviki and the Constituent Assembly (New York: American Bolshevist Bureau of Information, ca. 1920) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Noble Cause Betrayed, But Hope Lives On: Pages from a Political Life, by John Boyd (HTML with commentary at socialisthistory.ca)
- Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist (c2011), by Bert Whyte, ed. by Larry Hannant (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Notes From the Gallows (New York: New Century Publishers, 1948), by Julius Fučík (page images at HathiTrust)
- Stedman's Red Raid (with added recent annotations; originally published 1921), by Robert Minor, ed. by Tim Davenport, contrib. by George Hamilton (PDF at marxists.org)
- The Truth About the Lusk Committee: A Report Prepared by the Legislative Committee of the People's Freedom Union (New York: The Nation Press, 1920), ed. by McAlister Coleman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Philadelphia Communists, 1936-1956 (originally published 1982; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019), by Paul Lyons (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)
- A Citizen of Yiddishland: Dovid Sfard and the Jewish Communist Milieu in Poland (Berlin et al.: P. Lang, c2020), by Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, trans. by Paul Glasser
- S. P. Bunting: A Political Biography, by Edward Roux (HTML in South Africa)
- Intellectuals in the Fight for Peace (New York: Masses and Mainstream, 1949), by Howard Fast
- The Whole of Their Lives: Communism in America; A Personal History and Intimate Portrayal of its Leaders (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1948), by Benjamin Gitlow, contrib. by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pete Cacchione: His Record (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1943), by Simon W. Gerson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Strikes and the Communists Behind Them (New York: Constitutional Educational League, c1947), by Joseph P. Kamp (page images at HathiTrust)
- For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question (third printing, 1959), by Harry Haywood (HTML at marxists.org)
- "My Friends": A Fireside Chat on the War (written under "Native Son" pseudonym; New York: Workers Party, 1940), by C. L. R. James
- Party Building and Political Leadership (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William Z. Foster, Alex Bittelman, James W. Ford, and Charles Krumbein
- Are These Cats Red? The Black Panthers, by Kent Courtney (PDF page images at MSU)
- More Pages From a Worker's Life (Occasional paper - American Institute for Marxist Studies #32; 1979), by William Z. Foster, ed. by Arthur Zipser (multiple formats at archive.org)
- W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Foster-Ford: The Candidates of the Working Youth (New York: Youth Publishers, 1932) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)
- Futility of Fosterism (Winnipeg: One Big Union Bulletin, ca. 1923), by Ben Legere (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Keynes, Foster and Marx (2 volumes; Yonkers, NY: The author, c1950), by Earl Browder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Rebels and Renegades (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Max Nomad (page images at HathiTrust)
- The World Significance of the Russian Revolution (Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1920), by George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, contrib. by Oscar Levy
- Foster-Ford: The Candidates of the Working Youth (New York: Youth Publishers, 1932) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Emma Goldman: Biographical Sketch (New York: Libertarian Book Club, 1960), by Charles Allan Madison
- Living My Life (2 volumes; New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1931), by Emma Goldman
- My Disillusionment in Russia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Emma Goldman
- My Further Disillusionment in Russia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co.; 1924), by Emma Goldman
- Minnesota, Moscow, Manhattan: Gus Hall's Life and Political Line Until the Late 1960s (Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium #79; Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2020), by Tuomas Savonen (PDF at scientiarum.fi)
- Looking for the Future: A Personal Connection to Yesterday's Great Expectations, Today's Reality, and Tomorrow's Hope (c1995), by Leon Wofsy (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
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