{"id":99,"date":"2014-11-10T21:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/a-decent-left-book-club\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:47:25","slug":"a-decent-left-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevewatson.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/a-decent-left-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"A Decent Left Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAt Harry\u2019s Place<\/a> Gene is seeking suggestions for a list of books that are appropriate for the \u2018Decent Left\u2019. His readers are an erudite bunch and have come up with a vast number of suggestions. I\u2019ve collected the good suggestions from that post and its comments here.<\/p>\n

\nAnne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 <\/i>(Bob-B)
\nHannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism <\/i>(Stepkoe)
\n        The Human Condition <\/i>(Stepkoe)
\nRaymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals <\/i>(Sarka)
\nPaul Berman , Terror and Liberalism <\/i>(Gene)
\n        The Flight of the Intellectuals <\/i>(Bob-B)
\nMichael Berube, The Left at War <\/i>(Aloevera)
\nBer Borochov, The National Question and Class Struggle <\/i>(Abu Faris)
\nRay Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 <\/i>(Scopedog)
\nPascal Bruckner, The Tyranny of Guilt <\/i>(Amie)
\nMichail Bulgakow, The Master and Margarita <\/i>(Jurek Molnar)
\nIan Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism <\/i>(Suada)
\nNick Cohen, What\u2019s Left? <\/i>(Gene)
\nNorman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millenium <\/i>(Bob-B)
\nRobert Conquest, The Great Terror <\/i>(Me)
\nRichard Crossman (ed.) The God That Failed <\/i>(Gene)
\nNorman Davies, Rising ’44 <\/i>(S&A)
\nIsaac Deutscher, The Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\nMilovan Djilas, The New Class <\/i>(Mesquito)
\nJoseph Dorman, Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words <\/i>(Aloevera)
\nTibor Fischer, Under the Frog <\/i>(S&A)
\nFrancois Furet, The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century <\/i>(Aloevera)
\nOrtega Y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses <\/i>(Sarka)
\nRobert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe <\/i>(Bob-B)
\nV\u00e1clav Havel, The Power of the Powerless <\/i>(Kolya)
\nJacob Heilbrunn, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons <\/i>(Aloevera)
\nEric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements <\/i>(Aloevera)
\nIrving Howe and Lewis Coser, The American Communist Party: A Critical History <\/i>(Gene)
\nAldous Huxley, Brave New World <\/i>(Scopedog)
\nClive James, Cultural Amnesia <\/i>(Sabadennis)
\nRobert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power <\/i>(gur nischt)
\nArthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon <\/i>(Gene)
\n        Spanish Testament, <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\n        Scum of the Earth, <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\n        The Blue Arrow <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\nVictor Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom <\/i>(Gene)
\n        I Chose Justice <\/i>(Gene)
\nMarc Lilla, The Reckless Mind <\/i>(gur nischt)
\nJulius Martov, The State and the Socialist Revolution <\/i>(Abu Faris)
\nArno J Mayer, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions <\/i>(Aloevera)
\nCzeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind <\/i>(S&A)
\nGeorge Orwell, Homage to Catalonia<\/i>
\n        Animal Farm<\/i>
\n        1984<\/i>
\nPatrik Ourednik, Europeana: A Brief History of the 20th Century <\/i>(Sarka)
\nAnton Pannekoek, Lenin as Philosopher <\/i>(Abu Faris)
\nKarl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies <\/i>(Aloevera)
\nVictor Serge, From Lenin to Stalin <\/i>(Abu Faris)
\nAran Shetterly, The Americano <\/i>(Gene)
\nIgnazio Silone, Bread and Wine <\/i>(Gene)
\n        Emergency Exit <\/i>(Gene)
\nMartin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park <\/i>(S&A)
\nTom Robb Smith, Child 44 <\/i>(S&A)
\nTimothy Snyder, Bloodlands <\/i>(S&A)
\nE. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\n        Writing by Candlelight <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\n        The Heavy Dancers. <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\nRobert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists <\/i>(KBPlayer)
\nRichard Wolin The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s <\/i>(Bob-B)
\nYvgeny Zamyatin, We<\/i>(Shatterface)
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