Political History of Revolutions & Coups

Stalins Russia 1924-53

By michael-lynch

Bolsheviks Come to Power

By rabinowitch, Alexander

The August Coup: Three Days That Shook the World

By M.S. Gorbachev

Bolshevik Women

By Barbara Evans Clements (University of Akron, Ohio)

Lenin

By Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

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

By Mikhail Zygar

A People's History of London

By John Rees, Lindsey German

The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash?

By T.C.W. Blanning

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

By Jack Shenker

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

By Theodore H. Von Laue

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

By Michael Barone

The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate (Historical Connections)

By Lewis, Gwynne

The New Chinese Revolution

By Lynn Pann

The French Revolution, 1789-1799

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

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

By Isabel Maxwell Scott

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

By Stephen Kinzer

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

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

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

By Alexis de Tocqueville

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

By S. A. Smith (Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Professor of History, University of Oxford)

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

By Ruth Scurr

Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement

By Beverley Milton-Edwards (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland), Stephen Farrell (The New York Times)

Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion

By Charles Townshend

101 Things You Need to Know About Suffragettes

By Professor Maggie Andrews, Dr Janis Lomas

Great Issues in American History, Vol. I: From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776

By Richard Hofstadter, Clarence L. Ver Steeg

Saving Nelson Mandela: The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa

By Kenneth S. Broun (Henry Brandis Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Law School)

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

By Anna Keay

Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson

By Jon Lee Anderson

The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution, Abridged Edition

By Gary B. Nash

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

By Dmitri Volkogonov

Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War

By Andreas Malm, Shora Esmailian