/lit/ - Literature

I'm reading Alexander Herzen's My Past and Thoughts. (or a reasonable abridges version. The whole thing is several volumes) Just finished his youth and college years. Good stuff.
All others I've read are just bios. There should be a separate section for the two, shouldn't there?

>>3136228
Ask an old professor or use the internet. I know of no specific textbook authors to recommend. I'm going the source material rout.

>>2936341
Alexander Herzen.

What's a "Malatesta?"

I'll work myself up to it eventually, but first I must read some Herzen

This is a /pol/ question

>>2472947
With all of them there you'd get a good mix going. I know he's dry but he's stimulating

>>2415638
Step aside centurion!

The Ronald-wtf-am-I-reading jpeg means you are confused. Did you mean more to say that you like or are amazed by what you're reading?

Alphabetical by first names I guess

-Dante | A Life - R.W.B. Lewis
-The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins - Kirstin Downey
-The Defining Moment - Jonathan Alter
All Things Shining - Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
-The Táin [Trans. Ciaran Carson]
-The Complete Plays of Aristophanes [Trans. various]
-Three Theban Plays - Sophocles [Trans. Robert Fagles]
-Theodora: Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape - Anthony Bridge
-Venice: Pure City - Peter Ackroyd
-The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens
-The Lost Books of the Odyssey - Zachery Mason
-Moyers On Democracy
-Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinski
-The Portable Hannah Arendt
-Between past and Future - Hannah Arendt
-Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - Rebecca West
-Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution - Mark Puls
-Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World - Youval Rotman
-The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order - Samuel P. Huntington
-The Road - Vasily Grossman
-Everything Flows - Vasily Grossman
-Candide - Voltaire
-Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
-Garibaldi: Invention of Hero - Lucy Riall
-The Basque History of the World - Mark Kurlansky (recently finished: Nice)
-Permanent Blue - Dylan Loewe (Last finished: Nice)
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction - Harvey Mansfield (Currently reading: Nice)
-Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction - Colin Ward (Currently reading: Nice)
-The End of War - Captain Paul K. Chappell, U.S. Army (Currently reading: Nice)
-The Odyssey - Homer [Trans. Robert Fagles] (Currently reading the intro: Nice)

There's still 20+ others on my must have list

>>2051817
Being counter to Stalinist Leninist Bolshevism, is not counterrevolutionary.
The revolution isn't about restoring authoritarianism.

Unless of course Trotsky wanted to restore the Romanovs. I don't know much about him.

Reading up on Isabel Allende I was reminded of what Kissinger had with Chile, yet another reason to hate the man.
But I'll let that fight go on without me. OP, you wanted recommendations? I'll trow in my years reading if you or anyone else cares.

Revolution:
Everything Thomas Paine. [All inspiring]
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America - Harvey Kaye [Three chapters of bio followed by the mans impact on the nation]
Lawrence and Aaronsohn - Ronald Florence [Lawrence of Arabia & another rather interesting character]
The Second Bill of Rights - Cass Sunstein [Sort of a beginners legal book, very eye opening]
1848 - Mike Rapport [a telling of the European Spring, which is still far bloodier than the current Arab Spring, but both similar mechanisms and wants]
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell [Already recommended twice ITT. Its a view from the inside the Spanish civil war and all its complexities]
The Portable Hannah Arendt
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero - Lucy Riall

Byzantium:
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire - Edward Luttwak
Sailing from Byzantium - Colin Wells
1453 - Roger Crowley
[Now I must get all three volumes of John Julius Norwich's Byzantine more detailed histories!]


Want list:
How Rich Countries Got Rich ...and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor - Erik Reinert [Most times I try to read economics books they just bur away, but much of what I've read from this one has history and first hand accounts. Has anyone read this through? Any thoughts are welcome]
On Revolution - Hannah Arendt [Depending on what I think of the above book of hers, I think I'd like this]
Something on the Paris Commune
The Poison King - Adrienne Mayor [Mithradates sounds interesting]
The Basque History of the World - Mark Kurlansky
Something of Hitchens and Chomsky.