No other way out : states and revolutionary movements, 1945-1991

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No other way out : states and revolutionary movements, 1945-1991

Jeff Goodwin

(Cambridge studies in comparative politics)

Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-389) and index

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Description

No Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation for the emergence of popular revolutionary movements, and the occurrence of actual revolutions, during the Cold War era. This sweeping study ranges from Southeast Asia in the 1940s and 1950s to Central America in the 1970s and 1980s and Eastern Europe in 1989. Following in the 'state-centered' tradition of Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions and Jack Goldstone's Revolutions and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Goodwin demonstrates how the actions of specific types of authoritarian regimes unwittingly channeled popular resistance into radical and often violent directions. Revolution became the 'only way out', to use Trotsky's formulation, for the opponents of these intransigent regimes. By comparing the historical trajectories of more than a dozen countries, Goodwin also shows how revolutionaries were sometimes able to create, and not simply exploit, opportunities for seizing state power.

Table of Contents

  • Figures, tables and maps
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Part I. Introduction: 1. Comparing revolutionary movements
  • 2. The state-centered perspective on revolutions: strengths and limitations
  • Part II. Southeast Asia: Chronology for Southeast Asia
  • 3. The formation of revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia
  • 4. The only domino: the Vietnamese revolution in comparative perspective
  • Part III. Central America: Chronology for Central America
  • 5. The formation of revolutionary movements in Central America
  • 6. Not-so-inevitable revolutions: the political trajectory of revolutionary movements in Central America
  • Part IV. Further Comparisons and Theoretical Elaborations: 7. Between success and failure: persistent insurgencies
  • Chronology for Eastern Europe
  • 8. 'Refolution' and rebellion in Eastern Europe, 1989
  • 9. Conclusion: generalizations and prognostication
  • Annotated bibliography
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BA53303172
  • ISBN
    • 0521620694
    • 0521629489
  • LCCN
    00058585
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 407 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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