Year One of the Russian Revolution

8 best books like Year One of the Russian Revolution (Victor Serge): Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, Homage to Catalonia, The Revolution Betrayed, Home of the Gentry, Ashes and Diamonds, De dood is een zware klus

Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

Author	Karl Marx
ISBN	0140445684

Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids...

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Author	Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN	0805063897

Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

Author	China Miéville
ISBN	1784782777

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked...

Homage to Catalonia

Author	George Orwell
ISBN	0156421178

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...

The Revolution Betrayed

Author	Leon Trotsky
ISBN	0486433986

One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet...

Home of the Gentry

Author	Ivan Turgenev
ISBN	0140442243

"Home of the Gentry" is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky...

Ashes and Diamonds

Author	Jerzy Andrzejewski
ISBN	0810115190

Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest post-war Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, and nationalists; thieves and black marketeers;...

De dood is een zware klus

Author

Khaled Khalifa

De oude Syriër Abd al-Latief heeft een laatste wens: hij wil begraven worden in zijn geboortedorp. Op zijn sterfbed vraagt hij zijn zoon Boelboel hem daarheen te brengen. Voor Boelboel zit er niets anders op: samen met zijn broer Hoessein en zijn zus Fatima gaat hij na hun vaders dood op weg. In een busje,...