Coups d'état

Here are entered general works about coups d'état. Works on individual coups d'état and attempted coups are entered under the name of the country with appropriate historical subdivision, e.g. France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851.

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• Revolutions
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• History
• Government, Resistance to

• Coups d'état -- France
• Coups d'état -- Indonesia
• Coups d'état -- Iran
• Coups d'état -- United States

• Coup d'états
• Coups (Coups d'état)

• The Anti-Coup (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, 2003), by Gene Sharp and Bruce Jenkins (PDF with commentary at aeinstein.org)

• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, by Karl Marx, trans. by Daniel De Leon (Gutenberg text)

• The Fortune of the Rougons, by Émile Zola, ed. by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text

• Indonesia 1965: The Second Greatest Crime of the Century, by Deirdre Griswold (HTML at workers.org)

• The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953 (redacted version of a classified 1954 report, with additional material; this edition published 2000), by Donald Newton Wilber, ed. by Malcolm Byrne (PDF files at gwu.edu)

• The Generals of October (electronic edition, 2007), by John T. Cullen (HTML with commentary at johntcullen.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Die Lehren des Bürgerkrieges (in German; Hamburg: Verlag der Kommunistischen internationale, 1921), by Sergei Ivanovich Gusev (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Evolution of Revolution (London: Hyndman Literary Trust, ca. 1921), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, by P.-J. Proudhon, trans. by John Beverley Robinson (HTML at fair-use.org)
• Ideales Viejos e Ideales Nuevos; Significación Histórica del Movimiento Maximalista (in Spanish; ca. 1918), by José Ingenieros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kalos: What is to be Done With Our World?, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
• Parliament and Revolution (1919), by James Ramsay MacDonald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Programme of the World Revolution (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, 1920), by Nikolai Bukharin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Proletarian Dictatorship and Terrorism (Detroit: Marxian Educational Society, ca. 1921), by Karl Radek, trans. by Patrick Lavin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Psychology of Revolution, by Gustave Le Bon (HTML at Virginia)
• The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man (1922), by Lothrop Stoddard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at mo-net.com
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (PDF with commentary at tfp.org)
• The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion ("by" John Tanner, a character in Man and Superman; generally published with Maxims for Revolutionists (and usually with Man and Superman)), by Bernard Shaw
  • main text: Gutenberg text
  • Maxims for Revolutionists: Gutenberg text
• Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination (2011), by David Graeber (frame-dependent HTML at Minor Compositions and Scribd)
• The Road Away From Revolution (1923), by Woodrow Wilson (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires; and The Law of Nature, by C.-F. Volney (Gutenberg text)
• State and Revolution, by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (HTML at marxists.org)
• The Theory of Social Revolutions (1913), by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)
• Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise (New York: Workers library publishers, 1935), by Moissaye J. Olgin (page images at HathiTrust)
• We Can Change The World: The Real Meaning of Everyday Life (Boston: New Democracy Books, c1991), by David G. Stratman (PDF at newdemocracyworld.org)
• You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (originally from New Left Notes, June 18, 1969), by Karin Ashley, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins, Mark Rudd, and Steve Tappis
  • as it appeared in the original issue: PDF page images at archive.org
  • transcription, with some errors: multiple formats at archive.org

• Evolutions and Revolutions: A Contemporary History of Militaries in Southern Africa (2005), ed. by Martin Revai Rupiya (PDF files with commentary in South Africa)
• Soviet, East German, and Cuban Involvement in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa: Report of the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session (Washington: GPO, 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ikwezi (full serial archives)

• Ikwezi (full serial archives)
• Isizwe: Journal of the United Democratic Front, by United Democratic Front (South Africa) (partial serial archives)

• Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia (London et al.: Croom Helm, c1985), by Jakkie Cilliers (PDF at issafrica.org)

• Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution, by André Trocmé, ed. by Charles E. Moore (PDF with commentary at plough.com)

• The Fate of a Crown (published under "Schuyler Staunton" pseudnym; Chicago: Reilly and Britton, c1905), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Hazel Roberts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• "Revolution Beyond Our Borders": Sandinista Intervention in Central America (1985), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Courts of the Morning (1929), by John Buchan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Plumed Serpent (1926), by D. H. Lawrence (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900), by Winston Churchill (page images at Google; US access only)

• The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., ca. 1882), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by Hugh McVickar (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Internationalism, by International Communist Current (partial serial archives)

• Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda (from the 1973 edition, with a followup on its suppression), by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, contrib. by Richard A. Falk (HTML with commentary at chomsky.info)
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (PDF with commentary at tfp.org)

• The Future of Insurgency (1993), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century: Reconceputalizing Threat and Response (2004), by Steven Metz and Raymond A. Millen (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Rethinking Insurgency (2007), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at army.mil)

• Hereward, the Last of the English, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)

• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance, by Gordon R. Smith and Moises Naim (HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (originally from New Left Notes, June 18, 1969), by Karin Ashley, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins, Mark Rudd, and Steve Tappis
  • as it appeared in the original issue: PDF page images at archive.org
  • transcription, with some errors: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Permanent Revolution, and Results and Prospects, by Leon Trotsky, trans. by John G. Wright (HTML at marxists.org)

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