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This is the best reference for diamat: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Elementary_principles_of_philosophy. I haven't read Stalin's one yet and I will to compare, but I'm still recommending Politzer as the best.
You should also check out ProleWiki. We have a page on it heavily taking from Politzer's book: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism.
I've been wanting to make diagrams to help visualize diamat but I'm not sure I know enough to make them accurate and not introduce confusion or mistakes, it'd be based on the way I see dialectics which I sometimes kinda see as heterodox to most Marxists lol.
There are diagrams in that Vietnamese college book on diamat. I'll try to think of the title and translator. Was it Luna Oi, maybe? You could ask to use them, with a link to the book. The ebook is free, anyway, so they might just appreciate the advertising.
We actually have it on ProleWiki!
That's probably where I read it. I'm tired lol.
I found this to be really useful as well, it's systematic and fairly thorough: https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1953/materialism-and-dialectical-method.pdf