History

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  Terrorism and Communism

  by Leon Trotsky
  Trotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violence.
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  The Putney Debates

  by The Levellers
  The debates between the Levellers and Oliver Cromwell, introduced by Geoffrey Robertson.

  1 post

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  Changing Venezuela by Taking Power

  by Gregory Wilpert
  Venezuela under Hugo Chávez could be a model for peaceful revolution—or it could all be undone by the specters of the past.

  2 posts

  1 discussion

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  Youth, Identity, Power

  by Carlos Munoz
  A unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America.

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  The Declaration of Independence

  by Thomas Jefferson
  The explosive manifesto for the American Revolution, introduced by the co-author of Empire.

  2 posts

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  History and Revolution

  Edited by Mike Haynes and Jim Wolfreys
  Confronting conservative and revisionist trends in historical enquiry.
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  Hitler’s Beneficiaries

  by Götz Aly
  A stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich—and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state.
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  Chechnya

  by Tony Wood
  A powerful argument for Chechen self-determination, and a definitive history of the region.

  3 posts

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  Virtue and Terror

  by Maximilien Robespierre and Slavoj Žižek
  Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution.
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  Imagined Communities

  by Benedict Anderson
  The definitive, bestselling book on the origins and development of nationalism.

  2 posts

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  The Lost World of British Communism

  by Raphael Samuel
  A vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

  1 post

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  Auschwitz Report

  by Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi
  The first published work by one of the central figures in twentieth century literature.

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  Evil Hour in Colombia

  by Forrest Hylton
  The most up-to-date book on Colombia: from the mid-19th century to today's guerrilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries.
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  The Strength of the Wolf

  by Douglas Valentine
  The secret history of the government agency that uncovered Establishment ties to organized crime.
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  Weimar in Exile

  by Jean Michel Palmier
  A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power.

  1 discussion

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  Spaces of Global Capitalism

  by David Harvey
  An essential introduction to the field of historical geography.

  3 posts