Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799

Name: Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799
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ISBN: 9780520034198

ISBN-10: 0520034198

ISBN-13: 9780520034198

Edition: 1977

Authors: Albert Soboul, Geoffrey Symcox

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Albert Soboul has held the Chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbone since 1967, and is probably the leading Marxist scholar working in that field today. The book translated here should be regarded more as a synopsis of Professor Soboul's interpretation of the Revolution than as a detailed account of the course of events; it is an essay in analysis rather than a narrative. In it the author argues that the French Revolution can only be understood in terms of class struggle, and that any attempt to diminish the significance of class conflict as its motive force obscures the meaning of the events of the Revolution and rends them ultimately incomprehensible. The course of the…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/22/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Geoffrey Symcox is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.



Translator's Preface


Chronology of Principal Events


Introduction: Causes and Nature of the French Revolution



1789: Revolution or Compromise? (1789-1792)



1793: Bourgeois Republic or Popular Democracy? (1792-1795)



1795: Liberalism or Dictatorship? (1795-1799)


Conclusion: The French Revolution and the History of the Contemporary World


Selected Bibliography