The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited

2014
The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited

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  • Author: Bailey Stone
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 110704572X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 545

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.

The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered

2007-09-06
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered

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  • Author: Samuel Farber
  • Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 0807877093
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies or domestic socioeconomic conditions, Farber shows that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions, although not necessarily according to a master plan. Exploring how historical conflicts between U.S. and Cuban interests colored the reactions of both nations' leaders after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, Farber argues that the structure of Cuba's economy and politics in the first half of the twentieth century made the island ripe for radical social and economic change, and the ascendant Soviet Union was on hand to provide early assistance. Taking advantage of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents as well as biographical and narrative literature from Cuba, Farber focuses on three key years to explain how the Cuban rebellion rapidly evolved from a multiclass, antidictatorial movement into a full-fledged social revolution.

The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture

2019-08-14
The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture

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  • Author: Jay Bergman
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 019258037X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 503

Because they were Marxists, the Bolsheviks in Russia, both before and after taking power in 1917, believed that the past was prologue: that embedded in history was a Holy Grail, a series of mysterious, but nonetheless accessible and comprehensible, universal laws that explained the course of history from beginning to end. Those who understood these laws would be able to mould the future to conform to their own expectations. But what should the Bolsheviks do if their Marxist ideology proved to be either erroneous or insufficient-if it could not explain, or explain fully, the course of events that followed the revolution they carried out in the country they called the Soviet Union? Something else would have to perform this function. The underlying argument of this volume is that the Bolsheviks saw the revolutions in France in 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871 as supplying practically everything Marxism lacked. In fact, these four events comprised what for the Bolsheviks was a genuine Revolutionary Tradition. The English Revolution and the Puritan Commonwealth of the seventeenth century were not without utility-the Bolsheviks cited them and occasionally utilized them as propaganda-but these paled in comparison to what the revolutions in France offered a century later, namely legitimacy, inspiration, guidance in constructing socialism and communism, and, not least, useful fodder for political and personal polemics.

The Genesis of the French Revolution

1994-02-25
The Genesis of the French Revolution

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  • Author: Bailey Stone
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521445702
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

This book, first published in 2004, offers an interesting synthesis of the long- and short-term causes of the French Revolution.

Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe

2020-02-17
Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe

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  • Author: Bailey Stone
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1538131382
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 321

Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important new approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Bailey Stone proposes an innovative “neostructuralist” integration of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory. Providing a balanced and nuanced critique of both sides, he presents new ways of understanding radical change in the European polities that created the concept—and the dramatic realities—of modern revolution. He focuses on the central issues of modernizers versus traditionalists, old regime bourgeoisies, regicides, terror, and state legitimacy. By reconciling political and cultural theories of revolutionary causation and process, Stone’s synthesis marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.

The Order of Man

1983
The Order of Man

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  • Author: Charles E. Oxnard
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789622091047
  • Category : Human beings
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 366

This book is an attempt to look broadly at the biological Order of Man. It reviews more than two decades of study of present-day primates using data and methods not hitherto made available in one place nor to the general reader.

The Founding of Modern States

2022-11-03
The Founding of Modern States

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  • Author: Richard Franklin Bensel
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009247190
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 525

The Founding of Modern States is a bold comparative work that examines the rise of the modern state through six case studies of state formation. The book opens with an analysis of three foundings that gave rise to democratic states in Britain, the United States, and France and concludes with an evaluation of three formations that birthed non-democratic states in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Through a comparative analysis of these governments, the book argues that new state formations are defined by a metaphysical conception of a “will of the people” through which the new state is ritually granted sovereignty. The book stresses the paradoxical nature of modern foundings, characterized by “mythological imaginations,” or the symbolic acts and rituals upon which a state is enabled to secure political and social order. An extensive study of some of the most important events in modern history, this book offers readers novel interpretations that will disrupt common narratives about modern states and the state of our modern world.

Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century

2022-05-19
Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century

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  • Author: Jack A. Goldstone
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030864685
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1048

The 21st century has witnessed a considerable and increasing number of political revolutions around the world. This contradicts the popular belief of many experts in the 1970s that revolutions occurred mainly in monarchies and empires. Instead, the revolutions of this century have several new characteristics, which call for a renewed analysis of the subject. This handbook offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions of the last decade. Presenting case studies on the color revolutions, the Arab revolutions of 2010–2011, and the global wave of revolutions in 2013–2018 that spanned regions ranging from Africa to the Caucasus, it offers a better understanding of the varied forms, features, and historical backgrounds of revolutions, as well as their causes. Accordingly, it highlights recent revolutions in their historical and world-systems contexts. The handbook is divided into seven parts, the first of which examines the history of views on revolution and important aspects of the theory of revolution. The second part analyzes revolutions within long-term historical trends and in their world-system contexts. In turn, the third part explores specific major revolutionary waves in history. The fourth part analyzes the first revolutionary wave of the 21st century (2000–2009), the so-called color revolutions, while the fifth discusses the second wave – the Arab Spring (2010–2013) – as an important turning point. The sixth part is dedicated to analyzing revolutions and revolutionary movements beyond the Arab Spring and some revolutionary events from the third wave that began in 2018. The seventh and final part offers forecasts on the future of revolutions. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars and students from various disciplines interested in historical trends, sociopolitical change, contentious politics, social movements, and revolutionary processes involving both nonviolent campaigns and political violence. ​"Once again, this volume demonstrates the kind of open-minded, systematic analysis that the field of revolutionary studies requires." (Prof. George Lawson, Department of International Relations, Australian National University Canberra)

#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa

2017-07-14
#FeesMustFall and Youth Mobilisation in South Africa

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  • Author: Musawenkosi Ndlovu
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 135172813X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 165

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction and rationale -- 1 The view of South African youth before #FeesMustFall -- 2 Were the 2015 student protests a revolution? -- 3 What the 2015 protests actually were and how they were possible -- 4 Ikhohlisan'ihlomile: FMF students' engagement with power and their ideological differences -- 5 Can South Africa's declining economy inspire student-led new revolution? -- 6 Youth's declining news consumption levels and ideologically divided media -- 7 Youth's polysemic interpretation of the ANC regime and the limits of the new revolution -- 8 Youths' declining participation levels in the public sphere: the constraints of new revolution -- 9 Conclusion: FMF protests will not lead to a revolution per se (at least not yet), but to wide ranging reforms -- References -- Index

The Life and Thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782–1867

2018-10-25
The Life and Thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782–1867

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  • Author: Nicholas S. Racheotes
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1498577601
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 335

The Life and Thought of Filaret Drozdov, 1782–1867: The Thorny Path to Sainthood is an intellectual biography of the foremost historical figure in the religious world of nineteenth-century Russia. The product of decades of archival research, most of which was in the Russian language, this is the first book-length study of St. Filaret in English. The volume is designed for specialists engaged in imperial Russian history, students in upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses, and for readers interested in Eastern Orthodox spirituality, and observers of the contemporary Russian scene who wish to understand traditional church/state relations. Deeply researched and including a formidable bibliographic component, the volume also serves as a reference guide to scholars desiring to study, at greater length, one of the many topics raised. Racheotes argues that Filaret was far more than a neo-patristic theologian steeped in the tradition of the Eastern fathers. He was simultaneously a valued monarchal apologist and a guardian of the privileges of the Russian Orthodox Church to the point of subtly resisting the state. By means of translation, select passages from sermons, letters, and official reports are available in English for the first time. Often preaching before three reigning tsars, writing or editing such monumental documents as Alexander I’s will and Alexander II’s decree emancipating the Russian serfs, leading the drive for a Russian translation of the Bible, and preparing Orthodox catechisms are but a few examples of St. Filaret’s historical importance. His centrality to policy formation with respect to the so called Old Believers, his incessant campaigns for clerical education reform, and for translation into Russian of the seminal works of Eastern theologians account for the enduring influence attributable to this Archbishop. Today, his pronouncements are enjoying a revival among a new generation of religious historians in Russia and are often adduced by a host of contemporaries arguing for Russian exceptionalism.