Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies

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From the American Revolution to the conflicts in Afghanistan, revolutions have played a critical role in the course of history. Insight into the causes of revolutions and the factors that shape their outcomes is critical to understanding politics and world history--and REVOLUTIONS is a reader designed to address this need. Part One offers a combination of classic treatises and late-breaking scholarship that develops students' theoretical understanding of revolutionary movements. Part Two shows students how these ...
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From the American Revolution to the conflicts in Afghanistan, revolutions have played a critical role in the course of history. Insight into the causes of revolutions and the factors that shape their outcomes is critical to understanding politics and world history--and REVOLUTIONS is a reader designed to address this need. Part One offers a combination of classic treatises and late-breaking scholarship that develops students' theoretical understanding of revolutionary movements. Part Two shows students how these theories play out in real life through rich, accessible accounts of major revolutionary episodes in modern history.
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Readings collected here were chosen to introduce the main episodes of revolutionary struggles in the past and present, and to stimulate thought and discussion about revolution in terms of social theory, historical events, and contemporary politics. The first part of the book provides both classic statements and the latest approaches to the theoretical understanding of revolutions and revolutionary movements, including structural models, studies of ideology and leadership, and the role of gender issues. The second part of the book provides brief accounts of major revolutionary episodes around the world, grouped according to various types of revolution. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780155767102
  • Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/1/1986
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Pages: 343

Meet the Author

Jack A. Goldstone is Professor of Sociology and International Relations at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of the prize-winning REVOLUTION AND REBELLION IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD (California 1981), and editor of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS (Congressional Quarterly 1998), and REVOLUTIONS OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Westview 1991). He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and held Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is working on a monograph—REVOLUTIONS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE—forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

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Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction: The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions 1
Part 1 Theories of Revolutions 21
1 Classic Approaches 23
Manifesto of the Communist Party 23
The French Revolution and the Growth of the State 31
Charisma, Bureaucracy, and Revolution 33
2 The Debate on Modernization 37
Revolution and Political Order 37
Does Modernization Breed Revolution? 45
3 The Origins of Revolutions 55
Peasants and Revolutions 55
Revolutions: A Structural Analysis 63
Revolutions in Modern Dictatorships 69
Agency and Culture in Revolutions 76
4 The Outcomes of Revolutions 85
Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: Stratification in Postrevolutionary Society 86
Gender and Revolutions 94
Dictatorship or Democracy: Outcomes of Revolution in Iran and Nicaragua 107
The Impact of Revolution on Social Welfare in Latin America 120
Counter-Revolution 136
Revolution and War 140
The Diffusion of Revolutionary Waves 150
Part 2 Comparative and Historical Studies of Revolution 155
5 Republican Revolutions 157
The English Revolution: A Structural-Demographic Approach 157
The French Revolution: The Abolition of Feudalism 171
The American Revolution: The Radicalism of Revolution 177
6 Marxist Revolutions 183
The Russian Revolution of 1917: Autocracy and Modernization 183
The Chinese Communist Revolution 191
The Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961 201
7 Revolutions Against Dictatorships 213
The Mexican Revolution 213
The Nicaraguan Revolution 223
Countermobilization in the Iranian Revolution 235
The Philippines "People-Power" Revolution 245
8 Revolutions Against Communism 255
The East European Revolutions of 1989 255
Revolution in the U.S.S.R., 1989-1991 261
The Social Sources of the Student Demonstrations in China, 1989 271
9 Guerrilla and Ethnic Revolts 285
Toward a Comparative Sociology of Latin American Guerrilla Movements 285
South Africa: The Struggle Against Apartheid 295
The Palestinian "Intifada" Revolt 304
The Afghanistan Revolutionary Wars 310
A Brief Guide to Further Reading 325
Bibliography 329
Index 337
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