22 Top nonfiction books like Lenin's Moscow by Alfred Rosmer

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Lenin's Moscow

By: Alfred Rosmer

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

This memoir by a Comintern leader in the early Soviet Union is “a vital primary source . . . clear …

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1. Reform or Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot "reform" aw… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"If the proletariat came to power, it could draw from Bernstein's theory the following 'practical' conclusion: to go to sleep."

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"What distinguishes bourgeoisie society from other class societies…? Precisely the fact that class domination does not rest on “acquired rights"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitternes…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

"Social Democracy, does not, however, expect to attain its aim either as a result of the victorious violence of a minority or through the numerical superiority of a majority. It sees socialism come as…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution

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2. 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
  • russia
  • 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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3. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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4. Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

3.83

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more

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"Always wanting another man than your own."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"But no one came. Because no one ever does."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

5. Problems of Everyday Life & Other Writings on Culture & Science

By: Leon Trotsky

4.53

Format: 194 pages, hardback

Articles from the early Soviet press on social and cultural issues in the struggle to forge new soc… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

7. Ten Days that Shook the World

By: John Reed

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more

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  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
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8. The German Ideology

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Fascism and Big Business

By: Daniel Guérin

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Examines the development of fascism in Germany and Italy and its relationship with the ruling capit… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

10. 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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11. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution

By: Leon Trotsky , Joseph Hansen

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Contains discussions between leaders of the U.S Socialist Workers Party and exiled revolutionary Le… read more

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13. In Defense of Marxism: The Social & Political Contradictions of the Soviet Union

By: Leon Trotsky

3.33

Format: None pages, cloth

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14. The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany

By: Leon Trotsky , George Breitman , Ernest Mandel , None

4.00

Format: 186 pages,

Writing in the heat of struggle against the rising Nazi movement, a central leader of the Russian r… read more

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15. 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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  • history
  • 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

16. My Life

By: Leon Trotsky , None

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, a… read more

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17. Red Cavalry

By: Isaac Babel , Michael Dirda

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalrycycle retains today the shockin… read more

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18. 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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  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
"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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19. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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20. The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.14

Format: None pages, Nook

Anarchy In Petrograd. The War: 4th Year 1908th. Aided by the garriso'l of Petrograd, the Maximalist… read more

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  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
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21. The Housing Question

By: Friedrich Engels

4.13

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Die nachfolgende Schrift ist der Wiederabdruck dreier Artikel, die ich 1872 in den Leipziger "Volks… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"For our workers in the big cities, freedom of movement is the prime condition of existence, and landownership can only be a fetter to them. Give them their own houses, chain them once again to the so…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

"It is perfectly clear that the existing state is neither able nor willing to do anything to remedy the housing difficulty. The state is nothing but the organized collective power of the possessing cl…"

-Friedrich Engels, The Housing Question

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22. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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23. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain

By: Felix Morrow

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A contemporary account of the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s in which the proletari… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism"

-Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain

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24. The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-38: Report of a Participant

By: James P. Cannon

4.43

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, Cannon says, but the restoration, the revival of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. 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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  • russia
  • nonfiction
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26. Lenin's Moscow

By: Alfred Rosmer

4.06

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

This memoir by a Comintern leader in the early Soviet Union is “a vital primary source . . . clear … read more

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  • russian revolution
  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
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27. Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence

By: Leon Trotsky

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Trotsky's Stalin biography is an important historical document. Unfortunately Trotsky was not able … read more

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  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
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28. Problems of Women's Liberation

By: Evelyn Reed

3.92

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Six articles explore the social and economic roots of women's oppression from prehistoric society t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. The Spanish Revolution (1931-39)

By: Leon Trotsky

3.94

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Analyzes the revolutionary upsurge on the land and in the factories leading to the Spanish civil wa… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power: Documents, 1918-1919; Preparing the Founding Congress (Communist International in Lenins T)

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.83

Format: 687 pages, Paperback

A day-to-day account of the 1918-19 German revolution in the words of its main leaders, including R… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

31. Marxist Leadership in the U.S.: Revolutionary Continuity; Birth of Communist Movement 1918-1922

By: Farrell Dobbs

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

PARTIAL LIST OF agrarian; All-Russian Congress; All-Union Congress; American Bolshevik Bureau of I… read more

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20 must-read history books like Lenin's Moscow by Alfred Rosmer

Transform Your Habits

Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Problems of Everyday Life & Other Writings on Culture & Science

Leon Trotsky

4.53

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

Transform Your Habits

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

Transform Your Habits

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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