Catalogue of Reading Materials for Theoretical Study

(November 1, 1941)

To the leaders and deputy leaders of all regional senior study groups:

The following theoretical study materials are hereby prescribed for all regional senior study groups:

(1) Dimitrov's report, conclusions, and closing speech at the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern (Liberation Press, Selected Works of Dimitrov, pp. 1–165)

(2) The concluding remarks of the *History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)*

(3) Resolution on the dissemination and study of the histories of the Communist Parties of France, Britain, Germany, the United States, and Italy, and on the propaganda of Marxism-Leninism (*Liberation*, Issue No. 105)[1]

(4) Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on how to conduct propaganda after the publication of the *History of the CPSU (B)* (*Liberation*, Issue No. 79)[2]

(5) *Stalin and the "History of the CPSU (B)"* (*Liberation*, Issue No. 128)[3]

(6) *"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder* (Liberation Press edition)[4]

[1] i.e., *On the Dissemination and Study of the "Short Course of the History of the CPSU (B)" Within the Sections of the Communist International and the Propaganda of Marxism-Leninism*. Translated by Jing Lin from the German-language *International Correspondence*, Vol. 8, No. 45, August 12, 1939, published in *Liberation*, Issue No. 105.

[2] i.e., *Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B) on Party Propaganda Following the Publication of the "Short Course of the History of the CPSU (B)"*. Published in *Liberation*, Issue No. 79.

[3] i.e., *Comrade Stalin and the "Short Course of the History of the CPSU (B)"*. Published in *Liberation*, Issue No. 128.

[4] i.e., Lenin's *"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder*.

Please read the above materials first, preferably studying each intensively once or twice[1], with the group leader or deputy leader highlighting key points from each material for discussion.

(7) Chapter 8, "The Process of Cognition," from Ai's translation of *Outline of Philosophy*[2], i.e., Chapter 4 of *Selected Readings in Philosophy*

(8) Chapter 6, "Materialist Dialectics and Formal Logic," from Li's translation of *A Course in Dialectical Materialism*[3]

(9) The introductory remarks of Kawakami Hajime's *Outline of Economics*[4] (translated by Chen Baoyin)

The above □□[5] may be read later.

(10) The complete *History of the CPSU (B)*

The above one item may be read later, with the same reading and discussion methods as before.

Mao Zedong, Wang Jiaxiang

November 1

[1] The original text of the copy reads as such; it may mean: "preferably studying each intensively once or twice."

[2] i.e., *Outline of New Philosophy* by Soviet authors Mitin, Ralitsevich, et al., translated by Ai Siqi and Zheng Yili.

[3] i.e., *A Course in Dialectical Materialism* by Soviet authors Shirokov, Eisenberg, et al., translated by Li Da and Lei Zhongjian.

[4] Kawakami Hajime (1879–1946), a Japanese Marxist economist. *Outline of Economics* is a work he published in 1928.

[5] The telegram text has omissions; it may be the two characters for "three items."