The Communist Blueprint for the Future

by Thomas P. Whitney (Introduction)

"The complete texts of all four Communist manifestoes 1848–1961". Contains the Manifesto of the Communist Party (better-known as the Communist Manifesto); Critique of the Gotha Program; The Program of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, 1903; The Program of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), 1919; and The Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Draft), 1961.

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Thomas Porter Whitney was an American diplomat, author, translator, and philanthropist. He earned a Masters degree in Russian history from Columbia University in 1940, and is best known for translating the work of Nobel Prize winning author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In 1947, he became the Moscow correspondent for The Associated Press and later was appointed head of the Moscow office.