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If you don't want to read all the primary sources on Marx and Lenin, I like The Marx-Engels Reader and The Lenin Anthology by Robert Tucker. Tucker is one of my favorite Soviet history writers -- Stalin in Power is good, for example.
Others I think are quite good:
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution by Stephen Cohen
Russian Peasants and Soviet Power by Moshe Lewin
For the primary sources, I would start with The Communist Manifesto by Marx and What is to be Done? by Lenin.
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