Tag: Book Review

As of this writing, I have read 53 nonfiction books in 2019, although I am still working on finishing several others.

However, since I don’t expect to be finishing any of the books I am reading right now in the next month, I thought now wouldn’t be a bad time to do a annual recap of all the books I read in 2019 🙂

Here are all the books I read in 2019 (not in order):

1. The Struggle for Algeria — Joseph Kraft
2. The Condition of the Working Class in England — Fredrich Engels
3. Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide — Gerard Prunier
4. The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan: Nationalism, Islamism, and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Space — Tim Epkenhans
5. How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger — Susan George
6. The East Pakistan Tragedy — L. Rushbrook Williams
7. Balochistan: In Quest of Freedom — Syed Ramsey
8. West Papua: The Obliteration of a People — Carmel Budiardjo and Liem Soei Liong
9. War Economy and Crisis – Hyman Lumer
10. The Right to Self-Determination in the South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh in Context — Bahruz Balayev
11. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno Karabakh — Arsene Saparov
12. Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism — Kwame Nkrumah
13. Atomic Imperialism: The State, Monopoly, and the Bomb — James S. Allen
14. The Sudanese Communist Party: Ideology and Party Politics — Tareq Y. Ismael
15. Politics in Sierra Leone, 1947-1967 — John R. Cartwright
16. Cuba: Anatomy of a Revolution — Leo Huberman and Paul M. Sweezy
17. Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution — Dan Connell
18. Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation: Eritrea and East Timor Compared — Awet Tewelde Weldemichael
19. A History of South Sudan: From Slavery to Independence — Øystein H. Rolandsen and M.W. Daly
20. The Communist Movement in Nepal: Origins and Development — Bhim Rawal
21. Ethiopia’s Revolution — Raul Valdes Vivo
22. Memories — Andrei Gromyko
23. The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq — Tareq Y. Ismael
24. Namibia’s Liberation Struggle: The Two-Edged Sword — Colin Leys and John S. Saul
25. The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State — Naseer Dashti
26. The Supreme Court of Canada: History of the Institution — James G. Snell and Frederick Vaughan
27. The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolution — Alan Wood
28. Kenya’s War of Independence: Mau and its Legacy of Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism, 1948-1990 — Shiraz Durrani
29. Fifty Fighting Years: The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921-1971 — A. Lerumo
30. Kyrgyzstan: Beyond “Democracy Island” and “Failing State”: Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society — Marlène Laruelle (Editor), Johan Engvall (Editor)
31. The Balkan Wars, 1912-13: The War Correspondence of Leon Trotsky — Leon Trotsky
32. Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Analysis of Mental Illness — Bruce M. Z. Cohen
33. Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond White Settler Capitalism — Sam Moyo
34. Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and Peoples War — Patrick Chabal
35. Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan — A. C. Grayling
36. Fiji: Race and Politics in and Island State — Michael Howard
37. Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR — Abeed Khalid
38. A History of Niger: 1850-1960 — Finn Fuglestad
39. Tajikistan: The Trials of Independence — Shirin Akiner, Mohammad-Reza Djalili, Frederic Grare
40. The Trial of Hissène Habré: How the People of Chad Brought a Tyrant to Justice — Celeste Hicks
41. Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered — Raymond William Baker, Tareq Y. Ismael, Shereen T. Ismael
42. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye — Melvyn C. Goldstein, Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh
43. State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic — Louisa Lombard
44. The Problem of India — R. Palme Dutt
45. Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution — Ernest Harsch
46. The First Socialist Schism: Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Workingmen’s Association — Wolfgang Eckhardt
47. Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria — J. E. Flint
48. The Fulani Empire of Sokoto — H. A. S. Johnston
49. An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women — Karen Stote
50. Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan — Adrienne Lynn Edgar
51. The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity and the Origins of the Republic — Paul Bergne
52. Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic — Ervand Abrahamian
53. Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923 — Jeff Sahadeo

Most of the reviews I wrote for these books were published on other sites (another blog of mine, GoodReads, etc.). Below are reviews of what I feel are some of the most important books I read in 2019. Enjoy!

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