Needed: Book recommendations...

[YouHaich]

On the following...

U.S history 1919 - 1941
Australian history 1920s - 1950s
The Civil Rights Movement '40s - '70s
Russian Revolution

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[RedTrackWorker]

Just a very, very quick reply:
On the Russian revolution, Trotsky's history.
On the civil rights movement, I'll throw out some that are less familiar: anything by or about Robert Williams, Lance Hill's Deacons for Defense and anything by Michael Honey.
On US history between the wars, check out Labor's Giant Step (focused on the CIO).

[RED DAVE]

Always a good place to start, available free online:

Peoples History of the United States (http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html)

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[mykittyhasaboner]

U.S history 1919 - 1941

http://www.marxists.org/archive/beard/history-us/index.htm



Russian Revolution

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/events/revolution/index.htm


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There's no shame in asking for help.

[ComradeOm]

Russian RevolutionSee my sig for more recommendations than you are ever likely to need

[graymouser]

On the Russian Revolution, read John Reed's Ten Days and Trotsky's History. Classic work. There are other places you can go afterward, like Victor Serge who wrote a very good book on the first year after the Revolution.

For the Civil Rights movement, Manning Marable wrote a very readable history called Race, Reform and Rebellion that goes through the whole period. If you haven't, you should read the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Malcolm X Speaks, both tremendously important. There's a ton more, just look in the Marable book's bibliography for further sources.

[Jose Gracchus]

On the following...

U.S history 1919 - 1941

A good starting place is Zinn's People's History, of course.


Australian history 1920s - 1950s

Got nothing, I'm afraid.


The Civil Rights Movement '40s - '70s

Dunno about general histories, but Zinn's People's History once more, as well as You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train; Zinn was personally involved as a radical professor teaching and advising student activists from the historically black college he was employed at, which were building the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.


Russian Revolution

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Rex Wade's The Russian Revolution, 1917. Simon Pirani's The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite. Rabinowitch, Orlando Figes, and Getzler are musts. My Trotskyist comrades notwithstanding, I strongly recommend you expand your readings outside the Bolshevik insiders and their views/post facto hagiographies. It must be recalled that however useful Trotsky's history, it was an openly partisan work vis-a-vis his opposition to Stalinism and the Comintern, therefore Trotskyist histories tend to have their historical value decline to their lowest in the years 1918-1928. They should be read with a critical eye, and with views toward the broader literature. ComradeOm has a great bibliography and knows his stuff.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Brovkin's The Mensheviks After October is the only one that comes to my mind re. the two Russian Revolutions, the disbanding of the superfluous Constituent Assembly, and the anti-soviet Bolshevik coups d'etat of 1918.