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

Theda Skocpol

Cambridge University Press, 28‏/02‏/1979 - 407 من الصفحات

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 of 1911 through the 1960s. Believing that existing theories of revolution, both Marxist and non-Marxist, are inadequate to explain the actual historical patterns of revolutions, the author urges us to adopt fresh perspectives. Above all, she maintains that states conceived as administrative and coercive organizations potentially autonomous from class controls and interests must be made central to explanations of revolutions.

المحتوى

• Explaining Social Revolutions Alternatives to Existing Theories: 3
• A STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE: 14
• INTERNATIONAL AND WORLDHISTORICAL CONTEXTS: 19
• THE POTENTIAL AUTONOMY OF THE STATE: 24
• A COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL METHOD: 33
• WHY FRANCE RUSSIA AND CHINA?: 40
• Causes of Social Revolutions in France Russia and China: 45
• OldRegime States in Crisis: 47
• THE CONTRADICTIONS OF BOURBON ABSOLUTISM: 51
• FROM THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE TO THE FALL OF THE IMPERIAL SYSTEM: 67
• AN UNDERDEVELOPED GREAT POWER: 81
• JAPAN AND PRUSSIA AS CONTRASTS: 99
• Agrarian Structures and Peasant Insurrections: 112
• PEASANTS AGAINST SEIGNEURS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: 118
• PEASANT RADICALISM IN RUSSIA: 128
• THE ABSENCE OF PEASANT REVOLTS IN THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN REVOLUTIONS: 140
• PEASANT INCAPACITY AND GENTRY VULNERABILITY IN CHINA: 147
• Outcomes of Social Revolutions in France Russia and China: 159
• A What Changed and How A Focus on State Building: 161
• POLITICAL LEADERSHIPS: 164
• THE ROLE OF REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGIES: 168
• The Birth of a Modern State Edifice in France: 174
• THE EFFECTS OF THE SOCIALREVOLUTIONARY CRISIS OF 1789: 181
• WAR THE JACOBINS AND NAPOLEON: 185
• THE NEW REGIME: 196
• The Emergence of a Dictatorial PartyState in Russia: 206
• THE EFFECTS OF THE SOCIALREVOLUTIONARY CRISIS OF 1917: 207
• THE BOLSHEVIK STRUGGLE TO RULE: 212
• THE STALINIST REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE: 220
• THE NEW REGIME: 225
• The Rise of a MassMobilizing PartyState in China: 236
• THE SOCIALREVOLUTIONARY SITUATION AFTER 1911: 237
• THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE URBANBASED KUOMINTANG: 242
• THE COMMUNISTS AND THE PEASANTS: 252
• THE NEW REGIME: 263
• Conclusion: 284
• Notes: 294
• Bibliography: 351
• Index: 391

نبذة عن المؤلف

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

معلومات المراجع

• العنوان: States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China; ACLS Humanities E-Book
• المؤلف: Theda Skocpol
• الإصدار: مزود بصور توضيحية, معاد طباعته
• الناشر: Cambridge University Press, 1979
• رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب): 0521294991, 9780521294997
• عدد الصفحات: 407 من الصفحات