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List of Popular Books About Revolution

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Updated June 14, 2019 22 items

List of books about revolution, including jacket cover images when applicable. All books on revolution are cataloged here by their prominence. This well-researched revolution bibliography includes out of print titles and generally contains the most popular, famous, or otherwise notable books. This collection of revolution books includes both fiction and non-fiction books about this topic. If you're looking for a list of popular books on revolution then you're in the right place.

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Revolution is a topic that both Albert Camus and Che Guevara have written books about, as have other fantastic authors.

  • Reason and Revolution
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    Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory is a 1941 book by Herbert Marcuse.
  • Political Order in Changing Societies
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    Political Order in Changing Societies is a 1968 book by Samuel P. Huntington dealing with changes in the political systems and political institutions. Huntington argues that those changes that are ...more
  • Crown Duel
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    Crown Duel is a 2002 young adult fantasy novel written by American author Sherwood Smith, originally published as two separate books, Crown Duel and Court Duel. Both stories take place in the ...more
  • Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War
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    Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War also titled Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War is an autobiographical book by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara about his experiences during the ...more
  • Outpassage
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    Revolution, redemption, resurrection. Sgt. "Det" Cox has just spent three years under psych observation on Earth; now that he's out-system, he isn't about to tell anyone he's seeing aliens again.  ...more
  • Books about the Romanian Revolution of 1989
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  • A Vindication of the Rights of Men
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    A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet, written by the 18th-century ...more
  • Explosion in a Cathedral
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    Explosion in a Cathedral is a historical novel by Cuban writer and musicologist Alejo Carpentier. The book follows the story of three privileged Creole orphans from Havana, as they meet French ...more
  • History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World
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    History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World is a book by Martin Malia and edited by Terence Emmons.
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a 1962 book about the history of science by philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Its publication was a landmark event in the history, philosophy, and sociology of ...more
  • The Sleeper Awakes
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    The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound ...more
  • The Rebel
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    The Rebel is a 1951 book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, especially Western Europe. Camus ...more
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    The Natural History of Revolution is a sociology treatise written by The Reverend Lyford P. Edwards, an American Episcopalian priest, in 1927. It formed part of the corpus of the Chicago School's ...more
  • The Machiavellian Moment
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    The Machiavellian Moment is a work of intellectual history by J. G. A. Pocock. It posits a connection between republican thought in early 16th century Florence, English-Civil War Britain, and the ...more
  • The Kingdom of this World
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    The Kingdom of This World is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957. A work of historical fiction, it tells the ...more
  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of history by Bernard Bailyn. It is considered one of the most influential studies of the American Revolution ...more
  • The French revolution
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    The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837, charts the course of the French ...more
  • The Anatomy of Revolution
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    The Anatomy of Revolution is a book by Crane Brinton outlining the "uniformities" of four major political revolutions: the English Revolution of the 1640s, the American, the French, and 1917 Russian ...more
  • Ten Days that Shook the World
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    Ten Days That Shook the World is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the ...more
  • The Roman revolution
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    The Roman Revolution is an enormously influential scholarly study of the final years of the ancient Roman Republic and the creation of the Roman Empire by Caesar Augustus. The book was the work of ...more
  • States and Social Revolutions
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    States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol, published by Cambridge University Press and ...more
  • The State and Revolution
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    The State and Revolution, by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving ...more