11 Best history books like The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America by Eugene Lyons

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The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America

By: Eugene Lyons

4.22

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

The classic work on Communism in America duting the thirties.

"Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement."

-Eugene Lyons, The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America

"Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement."

-Eugene Lyons, The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America

If you liked the history plot in The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America by Eugene Lyons , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. Latter-Day Pamphlets

By: Thomas Carlyle

3.85

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Democracy, on this new occasion, finds all Kings conscious that they are but Play-actors."

-Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets

"The Universe itself is a Monarchy and Hierarchy; large liberty of "voting" there, all manner of choice, utmost free-will, but with conditions inexorable and immeasurable annexed to every exercise of …"

-Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets

"Democracy, it may be said everywhere, is here:—for sixty years now, ever since the grand or First French Revolution, that fact has been terribly announced to all the world; in message after message, …"

-Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets

"What is Democracy; this huge inevitable Product of the Destinies, which is everywhere the portion of our Europe in these latter days? There lies the question for us. Whence comes it, this universal b…"

-Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets

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3. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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  • 20th century
"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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4. The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

By: Joost A.M. Meerloo

4.21

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

SINCE 1933, when a completely drugged and trial-conditioned human wreck confessed to having started… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Delusions, carefully implanted, are difficult to correct."

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

"Totalitarian ideology is able to blackmail man through his inner cowardice It threatens him into surrendering his innermost convictions in exchange for glamour and acceptance..."

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

"It is often disturbing to see how even intelligent people do not have straight thinking minds of their own. The pattern of the mind, whether toward conformity and compliance or otherwise, is conditio…"

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

"The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to mem…"

-Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

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5. Political Parties

By: Robert Michels , Eden Paul

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. American Psycho

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more

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7. American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character

By: Diana West

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In The Death of the Grown-Up,Diana West diagnosed the demise of Western civilization by looking at … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War

By: William Manchester

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. The Fourth Political Theory

By: Alexander Dugin , Александр Гельевич Дугин

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Fourth Political Theory is the first book by the famed Russian political theorist to appear in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Pussy

By: Delicious Tacos

3.81

Format: 225 pages,

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11. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.27

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more

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"You have to live to really know things, my love"

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

12. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

By: Catherine Merridale

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

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13. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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  • 20th century
"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

14. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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15. Stoner

By: John Williams , John McGahern

4.34

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more

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  • american
  • 20th century
"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."

-John Williams, Stoner

"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."

-John Williams, Stoner

"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."

-John Williams, Stoner

"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."

-John Williams, Stoner

16. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more

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17. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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18. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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  • 20th century
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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19. The Populist Delusion

By: Neema Parvini

4.37

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America sin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Left-wing progressivism"

-Neema Parvini, The Populist Delusion

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20. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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21. The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America

By: Eugene Lyons

4.22

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

The classic work on Communism in America duting the thirties. read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
"Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other…"

-Eugene Lyons, The Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America

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Transform Your Habits

Latter-Day Pamphlets

Thomas Carlyle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

Joost A.M. Meerloo

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Political Parties

Robert Michels , Eden Paul

4.11

Transform Your Habits

American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character

Diana West

3.87

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20 Best fiction books like American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

3.79

Transform Your Habits

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

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