States and Social Revolutions A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China

Name: States and Social Revolutions A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
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ISBN: 9780521294997

ISBN-10: 0521294991

ISBN-13: 9780521294997

Edition: 1979

Authors: Theda Skocpol

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State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. From France in the 1790s to Vietnam in the 1970s, social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the outcomes of such revolutions. And it develops in depth a rigorous, comparative historical analysis of three major cases: the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 1800s, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s, and the Chinese Revolution…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/28/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Theda Skocpol is professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government.



List of tables and maps


Preface


Introduction



Explaining social revolutions: alternatives to existing theories



Causes of Social Revolutions in France, Russia and China



Old-regime states in crisis



Agrarian structures and peasant insurrections



Outcomes of Social Revolutions in France, Russia and China



What changed and how: a focus on state building



The birth of a 'modern state edifice' in France



The emergence of a dictatorial party-state in Russia



The rise of a mass-mobilizing party-state in China


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index