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Political History of Revolutions & Coups

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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

1916: The Easter Rising

By Tim Pat Coogan

The French Revolution 1789-1799, Vol 1: From the Storming of the Bastille to the Fall of the Girondins

By Albert Soboul

Nicholas II, The Last Tsar

By Michael Paterson

Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men

By Lady Antonia Fraser

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

By Vincent Bevins

Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution

By Anne Alexander, Mostafa Bassiouny

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By Fawaz A. Gerges

The French Revolution 1789-1799, Vol 2: From the Jacobin Dictatorship to Napoleon

By Albert Soboul