Revolutions

Sean McMeekin’s “The Russian Revolution” frankly explores communism’s explicit evils.

“We must hate,” Lenin told his commissars. “Hatred is the basis for communism.” Rarely has an achieved ambition been so consequential.

It is now clear that four decades of totalitarian oppression has impacted post-communist European countries even more adversely than originally thought.

In the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a State Department official summed up the confused state of American intelligence when he exclaimed, “Whoever took religion seriously?”

Janet Polasky’s Revolutions without Borders seeks to once more recapture the cosmopolitan, borderless, and dynamic character of revolutionary politics.