Political History of Revolutions & Coups

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By Stephen Kinzer

Baltic Summers, Russian Winter: A Life in War, Revolution and Music

By Isabel Maxwell Scott

The French Revolution, 1789-1799

By Peter McPhee (, Professor of History, University of Melbourne)

The New Chinese Revolution

By Lynn Pann

The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (Historical Connections)

By Lewis, Gwynne

Our First Revolution: the Remarkable British Uprising That Inspired America's Founding Fathers

By Michael Barone

Why Lenin? Why Stalin?: A Reappraisal of the Russian Revolution, 1900-1930

By Theodore H. Von Laue

Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People

By Jack Shenker

The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash?

By T.C.W. Blanning

A People's History of London

By John Rees, Lindsey German

The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917

By Mikhail Zygar

Lenin

By Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

Bolshevik Women

By Barbara Evans Clements (University of Akron, Ohio)

The August Coup: Three Days That Shook the World

By M.S. Gorbachev

Bolsheviks Come to Power

By rabinowitch, Alexander

The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980-82

By Timothy Garton Ash

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember

By Anna Horsbrugh-Porter

Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World

By David Burnett

The Places In Between: A vivid account of a death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan

By Rory Stewart

Access to History: The American Revolution and the Birth of the USA 1740-1801, Third Edition

By Vivienne Sanders

Blood Sisters: French Revolution in Women's Memory

By Marilyn Yalom

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By Camilla Townsend (Professor of History, Professor of History, Rutgers University)

The Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime

By Jeremy Bowen

Five Days Which Transformed Russia

By S. Mstislavskii

Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd

By E.N. Burdzhalov, Donald J. Raleigh

No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine

By Jones, Professor Steve

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

By Sudhir Hazareesingh