Modern Revolutions An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon

Name: Modern Revolutions An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon
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ISBN: 9780521378147

ISBN-10: 0521378141

ISBN-13: 9780521378147

Edition: 2nd 1989 (Revised)

Authors: John Dunn

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Many political regimes today draw such legitimacy as they have from a revolution: the destruction of an existing political elite and its replacement by a different group or groups drawn from inside the same society. A large part of the ideological dispute in world politics has come in consequence to turn on an interpretation of the character of revolutions as political and social events. It is extremely difficult to separate ideological assessments of the desirability or otherwise of what has occured in revolutions from causal explanations of why these revolutions occurred, and both major traditions in the analysis of revolutionary phenomena have been damaged by their failure to distinguish…

Book details

List price: $64.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/22/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.50" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface to the first edition


Introduction to the second edition


Introduction: the ideological dilemmas of modern revolution and its analysis



Russia



Mexico



China



Yugoslavia



Vietnam



Algeria



Turkey



Cuba


Conclusion: approaches to the ideological assessment and causal explanation of modern revolutions


Bibliography: guide to further reading


Supplementary reading, 1971-88


Index