Books:
Anderson P. Lineages of the Absolutist State (1974);
Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarians (1951);
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963a);
Aron. Democracy and Totalitarianism (1968, in French 1965);
Cardoso Autoritarismo e democratização (1975);
Cassirer. The Myth of the State (1946);
Frank. On Capitalist Underdevelopment: Economic Genocide in Chile (1975);
- Equilibrium on the Point of a Bayonet (1976);
Huntington. The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991);
Linz. Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes (2000).
Marcuse. Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958);
Moore. Soviet Politics: The Dilemmas of Power (1950);
- Terror and Progress USSR: Some Sources of Change and Stability in the Soviet Dictatorship (1954);
- Social Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966);
Oppenheimer. The State (2018, in German 1907);
Poulantzas. Fascism and Dictatorship: The Third International and the Problem of Fascism (2019, in French 1970);
Skocpol. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (1979);
Tilly. The Vendée (1964);
- The Rebellious Century: 1830–1930 (1975);
- The Contentious French (1986);
- European Revolutions: 1492–1992 (1993);
- From Contention to Democracy (1998);
- Contention and Democracy in Europe: 1650–2000 (2004a);
Tocqueville. The Old Regime and the French Revolution (2014, in French 1856);
Wittfogel. Oriental Despotism (1957);
Žižek. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? (2001).