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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453253103321

Autore

Stone Bailey <1946->

Titolo

The anatomy of revolution revisited : a comparative analysis of England, France, and Russia / / Bailey Stone, University of Houston [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-107-70335-2

1-139-89378-5

1-107-62360-X

1-107-70410-3

1-107-59887-7

1-107-05382-X

1-107-69451-5

1-107-67188-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 529 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

303.6/4

Soggetti

Revolutions

Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660

France History Revolution, 1789-1799

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction. From revolutionary theory to revolutionary historiography: England, France, and Russia -- Ancien ReĢgimes -- Transtitons: breatthroughs to revolution -- Revolutionary "Honeymoons"? -- The "Revolutionizing" of the revolutions -- Revolutionary climacterics -- Thermidor? -- ; Conclusion. "Revolutions from Below" and "Revolutions from Above."

Sommario/riassunto

This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary analysis, Crane Brinton's 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history, political science and political sociology to compare and contrast, in their successive phases, the English Revolution of 1640-60, the French



Revolution of 1789-99 and the Russian Revolution of 1917-29. This book intends to do what no other comparative analysis of revolutionary change has yet adequately done. It not only progresses beyond Marxian socioeconomic 'class' analysis and early 'revisionist' stresses on short-term, accidental factors involved in revolutionary causation and process; it also finds ways to reconcile 'state-centered' structuralist accounts of the three major European revolutions with postmodernist explanations of those upheavals that play up the centrality of human agency, revolutionary discourse, mentalities, ideology and political culture.