17 Top history books like History as Mystery by Michael Parenti

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History as Mystery

By: Michael Parenti

4.15

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-mark…

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1. The Principles of Communism

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In 1847 Engels wrote two draft programmes for the Communist League in the form of a catechism, one … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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"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. Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

By: Roger Keeran , Thomas Kenny

4.39

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet U… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

By: Joseph Stalin

3.91

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A succinct presentation of the philosophical foundations of Marxism. read more

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"If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluat…"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

"But having developed productive forces to a tremendous extent, capitalism has become enmeshed in contradictions which it is unable to solve. By producing larger and larger quantities of commodities, …"

-Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and Historical Materialism

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5. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

3.00

Format: None pages,

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. On Contradiction

By: Mao Zedong

3.70

Format: 336 pages, paperback

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  • history
  • nonfiction

9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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13. 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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"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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14. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

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15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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16. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.39

Format: 353 pages, ebook

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Red Star Over the Third World

By: Vijay Prashad

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Anarchism or Socialism?

By: Joseph Stalin

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is the first English language edition of one of Stalin's earliest theoretical writings, first … read more

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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
"As you see, the point is not which class today constitutes the majority, or which class is poorer, but which class is gaining strength and which is decaying."

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take contro…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Socialist society presupposes an adequate development of productive forces and socialist consciousness among men, their socialist enlightenment. At the present time the development of the productive …"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

"Strikes, boycott, parliamentarism, meetings and demonstrations are all good forms of struggle as means for preparing and organising the proletariat. But not one of these means is capable of abolishin…"

-Joseph Stalin, Anarchism or Socialism?

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20. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

By: Nur Masalha

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, the land of Palestine has been fought over by competing faiths, nations and empires.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • world history
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21. History as Mystery

By: Michael Parenti

4.15

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-mark… read more

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17 must-read politics books like History as Mystery by Michael Parenti

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The Principles of Communism

Friedrich Engels

4.06

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The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Roger Keeran , Thomas Kenny

4.39

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Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Joseph Stalin

3.91

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15 Best history books like A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.25

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

4.36

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

4.00

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