The Revolutions Set (13-volume shrinkwrapped set)


A shrinkwrapped set of the first 13 books in the series: classic texts by key figures who took center-stage during a period of insurrection.

Revolutions: classic revolutionary writings set ablaze by today’s radical writers. This essential series features classic texts by key figures who took center stage during a period of insurrection. Each book is introduced by a major contemporary radical writer who shows how these incendiary words still have the power to inspire, to provoke and maybe to ignite new revolutions...


This specially-priced shrink-wrapped set contains the first 13 volumes in the series:
  • Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (introduced by Sheila Rowbotham)
  • Thomas Müntzer’s Sermon to the Princes (introduced by Wu Ming)
  • Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man and Common Sense (introduced by Peter Linebaugh)
  • Simon Bolivar’s The Bolivarian Revolution (introduced by Hugo Chavez)
  • Toussaint L'Ouverture’s The Haitian Revolution (introduced by Jean-Bertrand Aristide)
  • Fidel Castro’s The Declarations of Havana (introduced by Tariq Ali)
  • Leon Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism (introduced by Slavoj Zizek)
  • Maximilien Robespierre’s Virtue and Terror (introduced by Slavoj Zizek)
  • Thomas Jefferson’s The Declaration of Independence (introduced by Michael Hardt)
  • Jesus Christ’s The Gospels (introduced by Terry Eagleton)
  • Mao Zedong’s On Practice and Contradiction (introduced by Slavoj Zizek)
  • The Levellers The Putney Debates (introduced by Geoffrey Robinson)
  • Ho Chi Minh’s Down With Colonialism! (introduced by Walden Bello)

Verso Books has been publishing leading, critical works of non-fiction for forty years, including books by Theodor Adorno, Benedict Anderson, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Mike Davis, Nancy Fraser, Eric Hobsbawm, Karl Marx, Edward Said, Jean-Paul Sartre, Rebecca Solnit and Slavoj Žižek.