Red Star Over China

Edgar Snow

Non-fiction

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with t

asia, china, civilwar, longmarch, mao, marxism

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy

Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and

civilwar, empiricism, monarchy, politics, social contract

Lenin: A Biography

Robert Service

Biography

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography mak

civilwar, revolution, russia, soviet

The Bloody White Baron

The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman who became the Last Khan of Mongolia

James Palmer

Biography

Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia

civilwar, history, mongolia, russia, siberia

The White Guard

Mikhail Bulgakov

Contemporary Fiction

Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakovs comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an en

civilwar, revolution, russia, russian, soviet