Chirot, Daniel
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자료유형 | E-BOOK |
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서명/저자사항 | You say you want a revolution? : radical idealism and its tragic consequences/ Daniel Chirot. |
개인저자 | Chirot, Daniel,author. |
발행사항 | Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2020]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (ix, 171 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Chirot, Daniel. You Say You Want a Revolution? : Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2020 9780691193670 |
ISBN | 0691199906 9780691199900 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
내용주기 | Revolution as tragedy -- Incompetence, chaos, and extremism : how more moderate forces lost control in France, Russia, Iran, and Germany -- Reaction, war, invasion, and revolutionary terror -- The tyranny of idealistic certitude and imagined utopias -- Revolutions betrayed : autocratic corruption and the end of idealistic third worldism -- Peaceful revolutions? : interpreting conservative and liberal successes and failures -- Are there lessons for us to learn? |
요약 | "This book poses the question of why revolutions--from the French Revolution through the Russian and more recent revolutions--tend to produce tragic outcomes. As the author puts it: 'I have become intrigued with the idea of writing a short book on why so many revolutions turn into bloody catastrophes. Though a huge amount has obviously been written about revolutions, I think a good short review of why they so often disappoint so badly could find a good audience. Of course the planned book would not please those with different views. I want to insist on the contingent nature of what happened rather than seeing revolutions in a Marxist way as necessary and inevitable steps toward world historical progress. I also believe that key individuals make a big difference, so the purely structural analyses that predominate in sociology and political science lack an important element. Then, too, the age of revolutions is far from over, and while I don't really think that history repeats itself, there are recurrent patterns to watch out for.' Chirot proceeds by exploring the combination of extremism and incompetence that characterize most revolutionary movements, the effects of counter-revolutionary forces in complications post-revolutionary regimes, the often tyrannical application of idealistic norms on societies experiencing revolutionary change, and the corruption and oppression that often characterize post-revolutionary regimes. He plans to end the book with a chapter on what can be learned from his study with respect to future revolutionary movement"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
일반주제명 | Revolutions --Philosophy. Revolutions --History. HISTORY --Revolutionary. Revolutions. Revolutions --Philosophy. |
언어 | 영어 |
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