22 best-selling nonfiction books like Stalin by Ian Grey

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Stalin

By: Ian Grey

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Stalin was one of the most frightening figures of the twentieth century. His name brings to …

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1. The Complete Maus

By: Art Spiegelman

4.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Ingen är normal."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"He’s more attached to things than people."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

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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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  • politics
  • russia
  • 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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3. 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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  • russia
  • history
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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4. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. 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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10. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. On Practice and Contradiction

By: Slavoj Žižek , Mao Zedong

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell , Bill Moyers

4.26

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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14. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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15. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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16. 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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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • 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?

17. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

By: China Miéville

3.82

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more

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18. 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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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

19. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

By: Gerald Horne

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ida B. Wells and Cheikh Anta Diop Award Recipient for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Afr… read more

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20. Super Imperialism - New Edition: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance

By: Michael Hudson

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Leading Marxist thinkers re-evaluate Trotsky's key theories -- an ideal introduction for students. read more

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21. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • russia
  • soviet history
  • history
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books by Geoffrey Roberts

22. Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

By: Geoffrey Roberts

3.52

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey R… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • biography
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

23. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Anti-Dühring: Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science by Friedrich Engels

24. 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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25. The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World

By: Walter Rodney

4.42

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, … read more

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  • history
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Carlos Martínez

26. The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century

By: Carlos Martínez

4.57

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Professor Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba; Convenor, International Manifesto Group): In a wor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Stalin

By: Ian Grey

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Stalin was one of the most frightening figures of the twentieth century. His name brings to … read more

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  • russia
  • soviet history
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  • biography
  • soviet union
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse

By: Carlos Martínez

4.37

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – a workers' and peasants' state – lasted a mere sev… read more

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22 best-selling history books like Stalin by Ian Grey

Transform Your Habits

The Complete Maus

Art Spiegelman

4.57

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

Joseph Stalin

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

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14 Top history books like The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

4.13

Transform Your Habits

July 1914: Countdown to War

Sean McMeekin

3.68

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