History

[Anonymous No.16696213]

What work of Historical non-fiction are you currently reading anon?
You ARE reading some non-fiction in addition to the novel you’re reading, right?
For me, it’s A People’s Tragedy. Really interesting book about the Russian Revolution and the politics that led to it.

[Anonymous No.16696221]

>>16696213
Isn't there a history board?
What's the point of this thread?

[Anonymous No.16696230]

>>16696213
>Figes
>history
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/23/historian-orlando-figes-amazon-reviews-rivals

>>16696221
No, there's /pol4/

[Anonymous No.16696253]

>>16696221
It’s a literature board. For books. /his/ is not a book board

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[Anonymous No.16696276]

>>16696213
Thinking of reading that john adams Book by David McCullough

[Anonymous No.16696282]

>>16696213
Cringe. Read ten days that shook the world instead

[Anonymous No.16696287]

i usually dont like books titled
>a peoples ___
usually signals the authors complete hubris to know the people. But this seems ok.

[Anonymous No.16696294]

>>16696282
>Read Soviet propaganda written by treacherous communist American

[Anonymous No.16696330]

>>16696213
The Bible, just finished Numeri

[Anonymous No.16696356]

>>16696294
>treacherous
>propaganda are just the books opposing my political views

At least it's a first hand take on the Russian Revolution, not a cubicle observation of documents and later generation accounts. I'm quite sure Russian academics have a more serious and not a "OhNoShidFugg"-liberal-tilted lense of perception.

M'Researcher.

[Anonymous No.16696922]

>>16696213

[Anonymous No.16696964]

>>16696230
>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/23/historian-orlando-figes-amazon-reviews-rivals
his only mistake was apologizing

[Anonymous No.16696995]

>>16696213
i learned three things from this long-ass book

1. rural russia sucked major dick and probably still does
2. red petrograd wasn't a very nice place when things kicked off
3. both red and white factions really really really liked to massacre heaps of civilians (usually starving villagers) during the civil war

all in all it's not difficult to see how lenin gang became an attractive alternative for large portions of the population

[Anonymous No.16697015]

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>>16696995
So, a liberal perspective.

>>16696213
You may want to read this afterwards

[Anonymous No.16697051]

>>16697025
>millions of your people die from forced starvation as the state steals your food to feed itself
>lol nice liberal perspective akshually it was paradise according to my theory

[Anonymous No.16697054]

>>16696964
That and his historiography is dodgy as fuck whiggery

[Anonymous No.16697070]

>>16696213
Jacques Bainville's Histoire de France, don't know if it's 100% non fiction though

[Anonymous No.16697090]

>>16696294
>Read english propagandist instead
Games was equal - all players are shit

[Anonymous No.16697097]

>>16696253
>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc.

Anon clearly wants to discuss non fiction, subject history. Dont be a nigger anon

[Anonymous No.16697101]

>>16697097
meant for >>16696213

[Anonymous No.16697109]

>>16696213
Hess and the Penguins by Joseph Farrell, about the curious case of Rudolf Hess and his flight to England to maybe make a peace deal with the British in 1941

gets into antarctica space nazis, EU being made by fascists, and all sorts of crazy shit. Farrell is based.

[Anonymous No.16697128]

Francis Parkman: France and England in North America: Volume One

it's good

Hippolye Taine: The Origins of Contemporary France

it's boring, too many chapters are just lists of stats

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>>16697051
>knee jerk reaction against a known socialist who doesn’t like the Soviets
>”Stalin ordered millions of people not to eat!”
You’re an idiot

[Anonymous No.16697195]

been reading this, it's so comfy bros

[Anonymous No.16697360]

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[Anonymous No.16697455]

>>16697167
You act as if not liking the soviets is some far reaching position. Normal people don't like the soviets, only retarded tankies and unironic mongoloids who believe everything that was negative is CIA propaganda.

[Anonymous No.16697642]

What is a good thicc comprehensive Soviet history book that is also goes into what lead up to the revolution that is good scholarship and that is not Western propaganda that says muh 100 trillion died and that's why you can't have healthcare?

[Anonymous No.16697681]

>>16697455
The soviets and the revolution was a net good and was much better than what they had before. We can critique the soviets and their failures and why they weren't as successful as China but once someone says bullshit like muh 100 trillion muh freedumbs muh pull yourself up by your bootstraps then there is no fruitful discussion to be had because they are brain dead and just spout the usual propaganda.

[Anonymous No.16697752]

>>16697642
Peter Kenez's A history of the soviet union isn't terribly thicc but a nice, straightforward account. Should get you started anyways

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>>16697455
>Misses the point by continents