"A big book on a big idea. Sassoon is able to work on a grand scale, and he's not afraid to take big swings with his analysis. He also has an excellent eye for sparkling anecdotes and character sketches" -- Lit Hub Most Anticipated Books of 2025 "The most important book written about revolutions in years. Laconic but richly detailed" --Colin Crouch, author of Post-Democracy "This is thrilling history. Sassoon examines some of the most important revolutions of the modern era and argues for their importance in understanding the shaping of our own times" --Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War "A historian's cannonball. Sassoon has always been a superbly internationalist scholar. Revolutions takes him beyond Europe to fascinating accounts of 1770s America and twentieth-century China. Sassoon's conclusion: problems build up and then, "at an unforeseeable moment, fate strikes".

And up go the barricades" --Neal Ascherson, author of The Death of the Fronsac "Acerbic, informative, opinionated, deeply researched, and surprisingly fun" --Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner "The leading chronicler of the history of socialism . exhibit[s] impressive range and subtlety." -- Literary Review "Entertaining . not least for its novel insights and new perspectives . Full of surprising observations and conclusions" --Klaus Neumann, Inside Story "Astute. enlivening . engaging. It stands apart from all the many books on revolutions I have encountered" --Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Times Literary Supplement.