Best of Communism: Revolutionary Songs [IMPORT]

Various Artists

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 19, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hungaroton
• ASIN: B0000063C9
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #63,421 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Internationale

2. Voice of Lenin

3. Lenin-Song

4. Onward Red Guards, Proletariaos

5. Partisans of The Amur River

6. Red Csepel Works

7. Varshavyanka

8. Polyushka

9. Soar Ahead, Yau Glorious Song

10. Song of the Republic

11. We Thank You, Comrade Rákosi

12. Workers' Guards' March

13. Riflesong

14. On the Edge of the Woods

15. Foward Together With the Party and the People

16. Kisz Welds Us into Unity

17. Divsz March

18. Onward Youth, for Secialism

19. Happy Pioneer (A Climbing Squirrel in Cheer/So Joyful Is the Pioneer)

20. Song of Liberation

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good CD, August 25, 2005

By	E.Nigma (Glencoe, AL USA) - See all my reviews

I like this CD. It's passionate and an interesting historical find. Recommended for Russian enthusists, history buffs, or true Marxist/Socialists. On a side note(directed at the previous reviewer), please have the courtesy to review the CD only if you have it or have heard it. Please do not attempt to turn this into a political forum.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It was a well done CD but in hungarian, August 7, 1999

By A Customer

The CD had all the songs I was looking for but they were all in Magyar. Unless you speak magyar I don't sugest it

24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clarification and opinion..., April 8, 2001

By	"internationalist" (Ottawa, Canada) - See all my reviews

Contrary to what another reviewer wrote about the fourth song "Onward Red Guards, Proletarians", this is not an adaptation of a nazi tune. It was written by Leonid Petrovitsch Radin in a Moscow cell in 1897 and it played an important role in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 in Russia. The version on this CD is good. It is also knowned in German under the name Brüder Zur Sonne Zur Freiheit and in English under the name Boldly comrades in steps... There is also a French version (Hardi camarades !) but it is the Russian original version that is the best (Smelo Tovarishchi, V'Nogu) which was often sung during Bolshevik proclamations...

This album is interesting for the genuine revolutionary songs that are for once well orchestrated. However the lasts tunes are a lot less interesting since they date from the stalinist period and have never been sung by any revolutionnary... Otherwise, it would have been a 5 stars.