History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern WorldYale University Press, 1. jaan 2006 - 360 pages This masterful comparative history traces the West’s revolutionary tradition and its culmination in the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Unique in breadth and scope, History’s Locomotives offers a new interpretation of the origins and history of socialism as well as the meanings of the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet regime, and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union. History’s Locomotives is the masterwork of an esteemed historian in whom a fine sense of historical particularity never interfered with the ability to see the large picture. Martin Malia explores religious conflicts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, the revolutions in England, American, and France, and the twentieth-century Russian explosions into revolution. He concludes that twentieth-century revolutions have deep roots in European history and that revolutionary thought and action underwent a process of radicalization from one great revolution to the next. Malia offers an original view of the phenomenon of revolution and a fascinating assessment of its power as a driving force in history. |
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Contents
Introduction Delineating the Problem | 1 |
Historic Europe The Medieval Matrix and Its Internal Contradictions 10001400 | 11 |
Hussite Bohemia 14151436 From Heresy to ProtoRevolution | 37 |
Lutheran Germany 15171555 The Reformation as SemiRevolution | 60 |
Huguenot France 15591598 | 98 |
The Netherlands Revolt 15661609 | 115 |
England 164016601688 From Religious to Political Revolution | 133 |
America 17761787 Revolution as Great Good Fortune | 161 |
From the First Modern Revolution to the First Anticipated Revolution 17991848 The Nineteenth Century at a Glance | 215 |
Marxism and the Second International 18481914 | 240 |
Red October The Revolution to End All Revolutions | 253 |
Conclusion and Epilogue | 279 |
Revolution Whats in a Name? | 287 |
High Social Science and Staseology | 302 |
Notes | 317 |
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