25 Best nonfiction books like The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky

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The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk

By: Leon Trotsky

4.46

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

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"On the eve of the war, when tsarist Russia had attained the highest point of its prosperity, the national income per capita was eight to ten times less than in the United States—a fact which is not surprising when you consider that four-fifths of the self-supporting population of Russia was occupied with agriculture, while in the United States, for every one engaged in agriculture, two and one-half were engaged in industry."

-Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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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
  • 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. Mother Night

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more

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"When you're dead you're dead."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

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4. The Civil War in France

By: Karl Marx

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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6. Critique of the Gotha Program

By: Karl Marx

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • nonfiction

9. 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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  • nonfiction

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. Walking With The Comrades

By: Arundhati Roy

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of "The God of Small Things" comes a searing frontline expose of brut… read more

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12. 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

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13. 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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"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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14. 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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  • 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

15. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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16. Wage Labour and Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: None pages,

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17. Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy

By: Friedrich Engels

4.12

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On the philosophy of Hegel and Feuerbach, and the essence and tasks of philosophy. read more

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  • nonfiction
"If we are able to prove the correctness of our conception of a natural process by making it ourselves, bringing it into being out of its conditions and making it serve our own purposes into the barga…"

-Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy

"By the word materialism, the philistine understands gluttony, drunkenness, lust of the eye, lust of the flesh, arrogance, cupidity, avarice, covetousness, profit-hunting, and stock-exchange swindling…"

-Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy

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18. Class Struggle in the Roman Republic

By: Alan Woods

4.51

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

In the first complete Marxist history of the Roman Republic, Alan Woods provides a gripping and acc… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Peasant War in Germany (New World)

By: Friedrich Engels

4.06

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

This work is a graphic treatment of the first great democratic struggle which heralded the dawn of … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective

By: Alan Woods

4.57

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A Marxist approach to the History of Philosophy Alan Woods outlines the development of philosoph… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 1

By: Rob Sewell

4.77

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Kronstadt

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A Pathfinder upgraded edition Political and economic lessons from the 1921 mutiny at Kronstadt nava… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution

By: Alan Woods

4.70

Format: 636 pages, Paperback

There have been many books and potted histories of the Russian Revolution, either written from an a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. In Defence of Lenin: Volume 2

By: Rob Sewell

4.78

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

25. Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood for

By: Alan Woods

4.47

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Madrid. 21 cm. 251 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Ted Grant y Alan Woods.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

By: Marie Frederiksen

4.69

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

There have been many biographies of Rosa Luxemburg, but none have done justice to her as a revoluti… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The Development of the Monist View of History

By: Georgi Plekhanov

3.88

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

The "father of Russian Marxism", George Plekhanov (1857-1918) directed most of his writings against… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk

By: Leon Trotsky

4.46

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk Preparing a pamphlet intended f… read more

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"On the eve of the war, when tsarist Russia had attained the highest point of its prosperity, the national income per capita was eight to ten times less than in the United States—a fact which is not s…"

-Leon Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk

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29. Israel & Palestine – a Revolutionary Way Forward

By: Khaled Malachi

4.71

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Introduction (Khaled Malachi) The Jewish Question and the impact of Zionist colonisation in Brit… read more

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30. Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution

By: Alan Woods

4.20

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

"The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour." - James… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Ideas of Karl Marx: Marx at 200

By: Alan Woods

4.36

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

"Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and rep… read more

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23 Best history books like The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War in France

Karl Marx

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Critique of the Gotha Program

Karl Marx

4.36

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21 Top history books like Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood for by Alan Woods

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 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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

3.67

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Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

Leon Trotsky

4.00

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