History's locomotives : revolutions and the making of the modern world
"This 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. Martin Malia explores religious conflicts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, the revolutions in England, America, 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."--Jacket
History
x, 360 pages ; 25 cm
9780300113914, 9780300126907, 0300113919, 0300126905
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Introduction : Delineating the problem
Historic Europe: the medieval matrix and its internal contradictions, 1000-1400
Hussite Bohemia, 1415-1436: from heresy to proto-revolution
Lutheran Germany, 1517-1555: the Reformation as semi-revolution
Huguenot France, 1559-1598
The Netherlands' revolt, 1566-1609
England, 1640-1660-1688: from religious to political revolution
America, 1776-1787: revolution as great good fortune
France, 1789-1799: revolution as militant modernity
From the first modern revolution to the first anticipated revolution, 1799-1848: the nineteenth century at a glance
Marxism and the Second International, 1848-1914
Red October: the revolution to end all revolutions
Conclusion and epilogue
Appendix 1. Revolution : what's in a name?
Appendix 2. High social science and "staseology."