I just started reading a book on the Russian Revolution, but wanna read more leftist history. Anything from revolutions and labor movements to biographies. Doesn't matter to me if it's written by a Marxist historian, I just wanna read some good history books.
I've looking into the Annales School and World Systems Theory. Neither are specifically socialist, but they seem more materialist than some other schools of history.
Right now I'm reading Fernand Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century trilogy and Giovanni Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century.
Yeah, annales is great if merged with explicitly Marxist historical approaches.
i've been meaning to read Wallerstein's Modern World-Systems series or a while now, but it's definitely a bit more academic then what i'm used to.