Revolutions


The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
Les Misérables
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Communist Manifesto
The Anatomy of Revolution
N.K. Jemisin
Haiti was the stuff of American nightmare: a nation of black slaves who had killed off their white masters.
N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Anne Applebaum
One of many intriguing aspects of Karen Stenner's research on authoritarian predispositions is that it hints at how and why political revolutions might take place in this new and different twenty-first-century world. Over a crackly video link between Australia and Poland, she reminded me that the "authoritarian predisposition" she has identified is not exactly the same thing as closed-mindedness. It is better described as simple-mindedness: people are often attracted to authoritarian ideas becau ...more
Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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