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I'm currently reading "Counterrevolution and Revolt", and there are a few interesting points regarding your list.
The modern working class is not composed mainly out of factory workers and other producers of material goods. The vocabulary needs to be adapted to be approachable, and the concepts relatable. Otherwise you either get an intellectual "elite" using specialised terms to quickly exchange ideas, or a circlejerk where everyone is repeating stuff like "seize the means of production". In either case the message wasn't received by the group it should have.
Another important point is that the Russian texts don't have much relevance to modern workers. We're not starving, oppressed, and fighting for survival. Capitalism has had decades to learn how to keep the working population docile. It might be a better idea to use texts that deal with modern forms of capitalism because they're more likely to successfully introduce these topics to non- academic beginners.
If I remember correctly, he also had a similar point about Marx and how the economy and capitalism in the 70s (when the book was written) were completely different to what Marx was writing about. My take is that if you give someone a difficult book, written about a difficult topic like economy, and on top of that it's written about a system that's not the one you're living in, they're most likely not going to finish it.
That's from the perspective of spreading the idea of a revolution to common people. If the goal was to create a list for academics to begin their revolutionary education, I'd add a note about some TLDR of German idealism for the more adventurous.