Reddit reviews Reflections on a Ravaged Century

Bionomics - Economy as Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild, Well written and mind-blowing.

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches by Marvin Harris. TL;DR many irrational cultural practices are in fact imminently logical objectively.

Long, but good:
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Pulitzer winning book on the Oil industry from its beginnings.

The Armchair economist - the Economics of everyday life, sort of an earlier and better version of 'freakonomics'.

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Dogs and Demons: Tales from the dark side of Japan

Reflections on a Ravaged Century Robert Conquest

A History of the American People Paul Johnson. Good stuff.

I have read books on Russian revolution and Lenin. Just not the kind of books you would like.

Anyway here is the evidence for the murdering of peasants.

https://youtu.be/6TK9c-caEcw

Edit: For these of you who for some bizarre reason find a recording of Russell about his meeting with Lenin unreliable evidence, you can read all about Bolshevik atrocities during the Red Terror period here

https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Ravaged-Century-Robert-Conquest/dp/0393320863

It includes tens of thousands of dead and tortured every year and brutal suppression of workers and peasants. Bolsheviks weren't actually popular among the working poor at all.

Communists have always seen the poor as nothing more than cannon fodder to be used in their murderous attempts to achieve their utopia.

That's Lenin's vanguardism in practice, but Reddit socialists of course prefer "theory" and their circle jerks to real history.