Even better is to read the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. He knew and experienced the hell of socialism and communism. He was a great man. He as George Orwell warned us. We should have listened.
The Gulag Archipelago is one of the most powerful indictments of Communism ever written. It has been very influential in my political development (such as it is)
I rank it right up there with Orwell’s “1984”, even more chilling and terrible in some ways because...it was all true.
The third work (for me) in this troika is Whittaker Chambers’ “Witness”. I found that most powerful, because one of the most difficult thing in my experience is that a person heavily invested in a lie will rarely change their mind, even in the face of overwhelming proof. That has been a very difficult thing for me to accept, but the reason “Witness” has been so powerful for me is that Chambers did that, fully and completely. And it was his search for God that led him to finally and utterly reject Communism.