Modern revolutions : an introduction to the analysis of a political phenomenon
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Modern revolutions : an introduction to the analysis of a political phenomenon
Cambridge University Press, 1989
2nd ed
- : pbk.
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Bibliography: p. 295-339
Includes index
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Description
Many political regimes today draw such legitimacy as they have from a revolution: the destruction of an existing political elite and its replacement by a different group or groups drawn from inside the same society. A large part of the ideological dispute in world politics has come in consequence to turn on an interpretation of the character of revolutions as political and social events. It is extremely difficult to separate ideological assessments of the desirability or otherwise of what has occured in revolutions from causal explanations of why these revolutions occurred, and both major traditions in the analysis of revolutionary phenomena have been damaged by their failure to distinguish clearly between explanation and assessment. In examining eight major revolutions of the twentieth century, John Dunn helps readers to remedy this state of affairs by thinking for themselves.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Introduction to the second edition
- Introduction: the ideological dilemmas of modern revolution and its analysis
- 1. Russia
- 2. Mexico
- 3. China
- 4. Yugoslavia
- 5. Vietnam
- 6. Algeria
- 7. Turkey
- 8. Cuba
- Conclusion: approaches to the ideological assessment and causal explanation of modern revolutions
- Bibliography: guide to further reading
- Supplementary reading, 1971-88
- Index.
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