Revolution and Counter-revolutionRevolution remains a key concept in the social sciences. After the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, a debate still rages over its causes and meaning. At the same time as, in Eastern Europe, much of what the Russian Revolution was believed to have stood for is being rejected, the Chinese leadership has reaffirmed its right to maintain revolutionary political orthodoxy by force. In this book Professor Calvert aims to show how revolution must by its nature be disputed. When people observe revolutions, their interpretations of what they are seeing are conditioned by changing intellectual fashion and by wishful thinking and so too are the theories derived from them. This book re-examines the place of revolution in modern social theory and at the same time reasserts the need for systematic study in the social sciences. |
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... achieve . Moore dismisses in a few sentences the traditional view of the American Revolution . For him it is ... achieved without violence Theorizing 55.
... achieve . Moore dismisses in a few sentences the traditional view of the American Revolution . For him it is ... achieved without violence Theorizing 55.
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Peter Calvert. transition to industrial society was certainly not achieved without violence - it is the American Civil War ... achieve a revolution ; they have to have leaders from other classes , and even then the majority of peasant ...
Peter Calvert. transition to industrial society was certainly not achieved without violence - it is the American Civil War ... achieve a revolution ; they have to have leaders from other classes , and even then the majority of peasant ...
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... achieved , and is only to be achieved , by the exercise of Reason . To sacrifice either one to the other is to deny the potential as lessons for human advancement which distinguishes both the French and American Revolutions . Reason ...
... achieved , and is only to be achieved , by the exercise of Reason . To sacrifice either one to the other is to deny the potential as lessons for human advancement which distinguishes both the French and American Revolutions . Reason ...
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