| Description |
xvii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Explaining social revolutions : alternatives to existing theories: A structural perspective ; International and world-historical contexts ; The potential autonomy of the state ; A comparative historical method ; Why France, Russia, and China? -- pt. 1. Causes of social revolutions in France, Russia, and China: Old-regime states in crisis: Old regime France : the contradictions of Bourbon absolutism. Manchu China : from the Celestial Empire to the fall of the imperial system. Imperial Russia : an underdeveloped great power. Japan and Prussia as contrasts ; Agrarian structures and peasant insurrections: Peasants against seigneurs in the French Revolution. The revolution of the Obshchinas : peasant radicalism in Russia. Two counterpoints : the absence of peasant revolts in the English and German revolutions. Peasant incapacity and gentry vulnerability in China -- pt. 2. Outcomes of social revolutions in France, Russia, and China: What changed and how : a focus on state building: Political leaderships. The role of revolutionary ideologies ; The birth of a "modern state edifice" in France: A bourgeois revolution?. The effects of the social-revolutionary crisis of 1789. War, the Jacobins, and Napoleon. The new regime ; The emergence of a dictatorial party-state in Russia: The effects of the social-revolutionary crisis of 1917. The Bolshevik struggle to rule. The Stalinist "revolution from above". The new regime ; The rise of a mass-mobilizing party-state in China: The social-revolutionary situation after 1911. The rise and decline of the urban-based Kuomintang. The communists and the peasants. The new regime |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 351-390 |
| Subject |
Revolutions -- Case studies.
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Revolutions -- China -- History.
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Revolutions -- France -- History.
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Revolutions -- Soviet Union -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024169
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France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1799. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051471
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USSR -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125808
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USSR -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125845
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| Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
78014314 |
| ISBN |
052122439X |
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0521294991 (paperback) |
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