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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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 295-339
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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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