Reddit reviews Escaping the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Memoir

I might have got ahead of myself - the Holzer book is for the period after productive assets and knowledge have been destroyed (e.g. a 2000's Zimbabwe style land reform operation) where you may be disconnected from any elements of a specialised economy providing you with goods and services you may be accustomed to.

Obviously first you need to survive to get to that period; in a class revolution scenario like you describe, I would suggest the following handbooks for lessons as to how to ensure your chances of survival are high:

• Journal of the Terror - a first hand account living through La Terreur (as an enemy of state, i.e. being wealthy) during Robespierre's control of the Committee of Public Safety
  
  
• The Ninth of Thermidor: The Fall of Robespierre - how Robespierre, an advocate for the poor and the dispossessed ended up being denounced as a tyrant and being himself sent to the guillotine
  
  
• Mao: A Life, specifically the section on the Classicide of Landlords (and more well-off peasants)
  
  
• Escaping the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Memoir
  
  If you can't pass yourself off as a member of the revolution, or fail to conceal your capitalist past, then the safest option is to escape - we've seen in the past 300 years or so that social revolutions are usually accompanied by an atmosphere of paranoia, suspicion and delegation of absolute power over life and death to local figures who end up using that power to settle old scores.
  
  It is a difficult game to play and survive - so:
  
  
• make friends with local smugglers and criminal types who can get you out of the country, fast: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10819866/Tiananmen-Massacre-escape-speed-boats-smugglers-and-safe-houses.html