Political History of Revolutions & Coups

A People's History of the Russian Revolution

By Neil Faulkner

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

By D. Shlapentokh

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

By Robert K. Massie

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

By Lara Pawson

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism

By Thant Myint-U

The End of Policing

By Alex S. Vitale

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

By L. Trotskii

Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Transformation of China 1936-1997

By Sally Waller, Robert Whitfield

Oxford AQA History for A Level: Revolution and Dictatorship: Russia 1917-1953

By Sally Waller, Chris Rowe

The French Revolution

By Christopher Hibbert

Blueprint for Revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world

By Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

A People's History of Scotland

By Chris Bambery

Essential Works

By V. I. Lenin

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

By Robert Service

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By Antony Beevor

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

By Vincent Bevins

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

By Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge)

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

By Caroline Elkins

The People's American Revolution

By Edward Countryman, British Association for American Studies

The Gate

By Francois Bizot

Revolution and Counter-revolution in Spain

By Morrow, Felix

Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution

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

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

By Fidel Castro, David Deutschmann, Jesus Montane

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

By Rodney Allen

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

By Jonathan Clements

Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria

By Adam Mayer

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

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

By Wolf, Eric Robert