17 Top nonfiction books like German Social Democracy, 1905–1917: The Development of the Great Schism (Harvard Historical Studies) by Carl E. Schorske

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German Social Democracy, 1905–1917: The Development of the Great Schism (Harvard Historical Studies)

By: Carl E. Schorske

4.46

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of l…

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1. The White Album

By: Joan Didion

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"

-Joan Didion, The White Album

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2. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • politics
  • 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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4. 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
  • 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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5. 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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"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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6. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • germany
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider

By: Peter Gay

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

First published in 1968, Weimar Cultureis one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished caree… read more

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  • politics
  • germany
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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Cover of Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Allan Bloom, Alexandre Kojève, James H. Nichols

9. Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Allan Bloom , Alexandre Kojève , James H. Nichols

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophica… 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

11. Memoirs of a Revolutionary

By: Charles Lamb , Victor Serge , Peter Sedgwick

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Victor Serge (1890-1947) was an anarchist who initially supported the Russian Revolution. More impo… read more

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12. The Old Regime and the French Revolution

By: Stuart Gilbert , Alexis de Tocqueville , None , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution -- the so-called "Ancien Regime" -- a… read more

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13. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Locke is widely regarded as the father of classical liberalism. This essay was groundbreaking … read more

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14. On Beauty

By: Zadie Smith

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-s… read more

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15. The Road to Power

By: Karl Kautsky , None , None

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The Road to Power was a highly controversial political pamphlet published in 1909--an important doc… read more

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16. Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution

By: Manning Marable , Dan Georgakas , None

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Move… read more

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17. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

By: György Lukács , Rodney Livingstone

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published i… 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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  • politics
  • 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?

19. The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance

By: Bruce Fink

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book presents the radically new theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Aga… read more

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20. Pnin

By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more

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21. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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22. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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23. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • politics
  • germany
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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24. 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
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25. The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley

4.23

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more

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"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."

-Stephen Markley, The Deluge

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26. Considerations on Western Marxism

By: Perry Anderson

4.01

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in West… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Revisionism and empire: Socialist imperialism in Germany, 1897-1914

By: Roger Fletcher

3.75

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1984. Revisionism or reformism has long been recognised as one of the main intel… read more

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28. German Social Democracy, 1905–1917: The Development of the Great Schism (Harvard Historical Studies)

By: Carl E. Schorske

4.46

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of l… read more

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  • world war i
  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
Cover of Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey (International Business) by Anthony  Brewer

29. Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey (International Business)

By: Anthony Brewer

3.78

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Offers a unique account of Marxist theories of Imperialism. It has been fully updated and expanded … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Marxism and Transgender Liberation: Confronting Transphobia in the British Left

By: Red Fightback

4.19

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Marxism and Transgender Confronting Transphobia in the British Left is the response to transphobia… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Red Banners, Books and Beer Mugs: The Mental World of German Social Democrats, 1863–1914

By: Andrew G Bonnell

3.70

Format: 233 pages, None

Daniel Giraldo review: This collection of essays by a Marxist historian who specializes in the h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history

15 Top history books like German Social Democracy, 1905–1917: The Development of the Great Schism (Harvard Historical Studies) by Carl E. Schorske

Transform Your Habits

The White Album

Joan Didion

4.05

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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

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Reform or Revolution

Rosa Luxemburg , Κώστας Βρετός

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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4.36

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James O'Brien

4.29

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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

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