Modern revolutions : an introduction to the analysis of a political phenomenon

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Modern revolutions : an introduction to the analysis of a political phenomenon

John Dunn

Cambridge University Press, 1989

2nd ed

  • : pbk.

Available at  / 25 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

  • NCID
    BA07821610
  • ISBN
    • 0521371767
    • 0521378141
  • LCCN
    88026787
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxix, 350 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
  • Subject Headings
Page Top