📚 Revolutions

The comparative anatomy of overthrow: 1688 to 1979, and the arguments about what makes one rather than a riot.

Below are the 28 works carrying the subject revolutions in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	State and Revolution	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1900	132
	L'Homme révolté	Albert Camus	1951	82
	La rebelión de las masas	José Ortega y Gasset	1929	73
	L'ancien régime et la Révolution	Alexis de Tocqueville	1856	66
	The Age of Revolution	Eric Hobsbawm	1962	66
	Перманентная революция	Leon Trotsky	1930	48
	On revolution	Hannah Arendt	1956	44
	El tema de nuestro tiempo	José Ortega y Gasset	1923	30
	On guerilla warfare	Mao Zedong	1961	25
	Idée générale de la révolution au XIXe siècle	P.-J. Proudhon	1851	24
	Coup d'état	Edward Luttwak	1968	23
	Short History of the French Revolution, A	Jeremy D. Popkin	1977	22
	Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglu	2012	15
	The century of revolution, 1603-1714	Christopher Hill	1961	14
	The anatomy of revolution	C. Brinton	1938	12
	The anatomy of revolution	Crane Brinton	1938	12
	Why men rebel	Ted Robert Gurr	1970	11
	Blood in my eye	George L. Jackson	1970	11
	At the Cafe	Errico Malatesta	1915	9
	Philosophy and revolution	Raya Dunayevskaya	1973	9
	Massa Actie	Tan Malaka	1947	5
	The Portable Hannah Arendt	Hannah Arendt	2000	4
	Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991	Orlando Figes	2014	4
	The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914	C. A. Bayly	2003	3
	To suffer thy comrades	Robert Francis B. Garcia	2001	2
	Revolutions	Jack A. Goldstone	2014	2
	Blackshirts and Reds	Michael Parenti	1997	1
	Aksi massa	Tan Malaka	—	—

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 07 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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