History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik): Short Course

History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik): Short Course was the official history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1938 it was declared by the Comintern to be the “encyclopedia of Marxism and Leninism.” It was published in English in 1939. According to Hua-yu Li it provided a blueprint for institution of the the "general line for socialist transition" in 1953 in the People's Republic of China which established Soviet style collectivization in China.