Political History of Revolutions & Coups

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

Revolution and International Politics

By Calvert, Peter

Comparative Revolutionary Movements

By Greene, Thomas H.

Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

By Wolf, Eric Robert

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria

By Adam Mayer

Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion

By Jonathan Clements

Threshold of Terror: Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolution

By Rodney Allen

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

By Fidel Castro, David Deutschmann, Jesus Montane

Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution

By Tony Brenton, Donald Crawford, Sean McMeekin, Professor Dominic Lieven (Professor), Orlando Figes (Professor)

Revolution and Counter-revolution in Spain

By Morrow, Felix

The Gate

By Francois Bizot

The People's American Revolution

By Edward Countryman, British Association for American Studies

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

By Caroline Elkins

Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London

By Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge)

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'

By Vincent Bevins

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By Antony Beevor

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

By Robert Service

Essential Works

By V. I. Lenin

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery

Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune

By John Merriman

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

By Robert K. Massie

The Counter-Revolution in Revolution: Images of Thermidor and Napoleon at the Time of the Russian Revolution and Civil War

By D. Shlapentokh

A People's History of the Russian Revolution

By Neil Faulkner

The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd

By Alexander Rabinowitch

Virtue and Terror

By Jean Ducange, Maximilien Robespierre, Slavoj Zizek, John Howe

The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century

By McKenzie Wark

The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary

By Gavin Bowd

In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre

By Lara Pawson

Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising

By Gilbert Achcar