Political History of Revolutions & Coups

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

By Alexis de Tocqueville

My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle

By Shafiq Al-Hout, Jean Said Makdisi, Hader Al-Hout, Laila Othman

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

Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

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

By Robert Service