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As far as China goes, Fanshen, The Unknown Cultural Revolution, and The Battle for China's Past are probably a great place to start.
Thinking back to when I was in a situation similar to yours, I moved onto looking at history. Various slanders, allegations and statistics were thrown at me whenever I mentioned communism or Marxism to a teacher or some such and I felt that it'd be best to be able to combat these claims, but also get an idea of the context surrounding the ones that were actually true.
I recommend Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed, Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 by J. Arch Getty as well as Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens. I also keep hearing good things about Class Struggles in the USSR by Charles
Bettelheim and Socialism Betrayed by... I forget who.
Once I began to move over towards MLM (which is pretty recently) I began to read up on articles about Socialist China. I recommend this and this regarding the Great Leap Forward. For the Cultural Revolution, which I have read far more on, Battle For China's Past by Mobo Gao is extraordinary, as are The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village by Dongping Han, Fanshen by William Hinton and the 'Voices' done by Bai Di and Wang Zheng. For a more strictly Maoist based analysis of the Cultural Revolution Evaluating the Cultural Revolution in China
and its Legacy for the Future by the MLM study group is also a good read. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic by Maurice Meisner is gives a very good, more overall account of Socialist China.
However, you should remember that not everything you read about history will be historical materialist, and that even accounts that give more a nuanced view of AES can still be very liberal and bourgeois at times, everything must be read critically.
Yes because the growth in the recent decade was huge.https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Revolution-Change-Chinese-Village/dp/1583671803
Yup, I am aware of Mao's achievements including the positive aspects of the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution.