Doctor Zhivago
1957 · 673 pages
Yuri Zhivago, a doctor who writes poetry, is carried through war and revolution and away from the women he loves. Pasternak lets history arrive like weather, and the Soviets banned it outright.
★ 8.4
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The Ancien Regime and the Revolution
1856 · 307 pages
Revolutions come not when oppression is worst but when it begins to lift. Tocqueville digs through the old monarchy's records and finds the Revolution completing the centralized state it believed it was destroying.
★ 6.8