17 Top nonfiction books like Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution by Alan Woods

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Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution

By: Alan Woods

4.70

Format: 636 pages, Paperback

There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an a…

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1. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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2. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror Half a century ago, the United States overthrew … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • history
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7. The Revolution Betrayed

By: Leon Trotsky , Max Eastman

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayedexplores the fate of the Russian Revo… read more

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8. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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9. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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10. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

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11. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

12. Wage Labour and Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: None pages,

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13. Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

By: Friedrich Engels

4.29

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from the original book: "It was not my fault that I had to follow Herr Duhring into realms… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"If Hegel had not died long ago, he would hang himself, with all his theologies he could not have thought up this value which has as many different values as it has prices. It requires once more someo…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this …"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"From the moment when the bourgeois demand for the abolition of class privileges was put forward, alongside it appeared the proletarian demand for the abolition of the classes themselves. [...] The pr…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

"...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten finge…"

-Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science

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14. Their Morals and Ours

By: Leon Trotsky

4.05

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Participating in the revolutionary workers movement "with open eyes and an intense will--only this … read more

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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours

"A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified."

-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours

"A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equal…"

-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours

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15. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1

By: Rob Sewell

4.77

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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16. Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution

By: Alan Woods

4.70

Format: 636 pages, Paperback

There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an a… read more

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  • history
  • soviet union
  • theory
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  • nonfiction
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17. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2

By: Rob Sewell

4.78

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Fundamental Problems of Marxism

By: Georgi Plekhanov

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

An exposition of Marxism as an integral world outlook, against those who would vulgarize and/or dis… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution

By: John Peter Roberts

4.42

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

This book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese C… read more

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20. Israel & Palestine – a Revolutionary Way Forward

By: Khaled Malachi

4.71

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Introduction (Khaled Malachi) The Jewish Question and the impact of Zionist colonisation in Brit… read more

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21. The Unbroken Thread: The Development of Trotskyism Over 40 Years

By: Ted Grant

4.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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14 must-read history books like Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution by Alan Woods

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The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Critique of the Gotha Program

Karl Marx

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Transform Your Habits

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

Stephen Kinzer

4.12

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19 must-read politics books like Fundamental Problems of Marxism by Georgi Plekhanov

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Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky (Revolutions)

Slavoj Žižek , Leon Trotsky

3.77

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Fredric Jameson , Louis Althusser

3.92

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