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You Say You Want a Revolution? : Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences /
"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 c...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?