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Political History of Revolutions & Coups

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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

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

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

The French Revolution

By Christopher Hibbert

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

By Sally Waller, Chris Rowe

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

By Sally Waller, Robert Whitfield

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

By L. Trotskii

The End of Policing

By Alex S. Vitale

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

By Thant Myint-U

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

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

By Lara Pawson

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

Sealand: The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation

By Taylor-Lehman, Dylan

The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece

By Kruger, Horst, Whiteside, Shaun

French Revolution for Beginners

By McCrory, Martin, Moulder, Robert

Fidel: A Critical Portrait (Coronet Books)

By Szulc, Tad

The Clarke Papers: Volume 27: Further Selections from the Papers of William Clarke (Camden Fifth Series, Series Number 27)

By Henderson, Frances

The Soccer War (Granta Paperbacks)

By Kapuscinski, Ryszard

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

By Dikötter, Frank

The Egyptians: A Radical Story

By Shenker, Jack

Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che

By Elbaum, Max

Age of Anger

By Pankaj Mishra

Lenin's Revolution: Russia, 1917-1921 (Seminar Studies In History)

By Marples, David R.