Revolutions and Revolutionaries

23 May 2003 17:42

"...in view of the delay in the world revolution..."
---Lenin, March 1921 (Works, vol. 32, p. 225, quoted by Kolakowski, vol. 2 of Main Currents of Marxism)
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?
---Lichtenberg, Aphorisms E 32

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution [But see the excellent review on the limits of this book in Hobsbawm below]
Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution [Comparative history of the English, American, French and Russian Revolutions. "Clinical" manner. Very good on the uniformities of the actual revolutions. Completely inadequate on the great Soviet terror of the 1930s. Makes the strongest possible contrast to Arendt above.]
Albert Camus, The Rebel
Aflred Cobban, >The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution
Anatole France, Les Dieux ont soif [Variously translated as The Gods A-Thirst, The Gods Will Have Blood, etc.]
Fred Halliday, Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power
E. J. Hobsbawm, Revolutionaries
David S. Katz and Richard H. Popkin, Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millenium [Review]
Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism, vol. 2 and 3
Edward Luttwack, Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
Lewis Namier, 1848: The Revolutions of the Intellectuals [Divide through for some conservative political commentary]
Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914--1945
Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Eugen Weber, Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station

Stanislav Andreski, Wars, Revolutions and Dictatorships
T. G. Ash, The Magic Lantern [Revolution of 1989]
Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy
Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution [2 vols.]
Daniel Chirot, You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences
Robert Daniels, Year of the Heroic Guerrilla: World Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1968
David Brion Davis, Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality & Foreign Liberations
Lyford P. Edwards, The Natural History of Revolution [1927]
John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
Reg Gadney, Cry Hungary!
Robert Goldstein, The Russian Revolution
Jack A. Goldstone
- Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
- Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century
Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945--1991
T. Gurr, Why Men Rebel
Padraic Kenney, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989
Georges Lefebrve, The Coming of the French Revolution
Robert Malley, The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam
Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Max Nomad
- Apostle of Revolution
- Political Heretics: From Plato to Mao Tse-tung
- Rebels and Renegades
R. R. Palmer, The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
Misagh Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines
Petrach, The Revolution of Cola di Rienzo [ed. and trans. Mario Emilio Cosenza]
Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution [JSTOR]
Pipes, The Russian Revolution
Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World
Robertson, Revolutions of 1848, a Social History
George Rudé, The French Revolution [Review by Danny Yee]
Theda Skocpol
- Social Revolutions in the Modern World
- States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
Jonathan Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848--1851
Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution
Vladimir Tismaneanu, The Revolutions of 1989
Trotsky
- The Russian Revolution
- Terrorism and Communism