You say you want a revolution? : radical idealism and its tragic consequences /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chirot, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Revolutions > History.
Revolutions > Philosophy.
Révolutions > Histoire.
HISTORY > Revolutionary.
Revolutions.
Asian history.
Bolsheviks.
Bolshevism.
Communism.
Cuban Revolution.
Cultural Revolution.
Egypt.
English Revolution.
European history.
Hitler.
Khmer Rouge.
Khomeni.
Lenin.
Mao.
Napoleon.
Nazi.
Nazis.
Nazism.
Reign of Terror.
Stalin.
Syria.
Third World revolution.
Tunisia.
civil war.
corruption.
counterrevolution.
democratic revolution.
dictatorship.
global history.
history of revolution.
history of revolutions.
lessons of revolutions.
radical utopianism.
repression.
revolution stages.
revolutionary stages.
theory of revolutions.
violence.
violent.
world history.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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