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In History and Revolution, a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an exploration of the English, French, and Russian revolutions and their treatment by revisionist historiography, to the debates and themes arising from attempts to downplay revolution's role in history, History and Revolution also engages with several prominent revisionist historians, including Orlando Figes, Conrad Russell and Simon Schama. This important book shows the inability of revisionism to explain why millions are moved to act in defence of political causes, and why specific political currents emerge, and is a significant reassertion of the concept of revolution in human development. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)303.64Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Conflict and conflict resolution ; Violence Civil war and revolutionClassificazione LCVotoMedia: Nessun voto.Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
The sequence of articles goes chronologically, roughly, beginning with Kennedy's essay, then two articles on the French Revolution by Jim Wolfreys and Florence Gauthier respectively, subsequently two articles on the Russian Revolution by Mike Haynes and Lars Lih respectively, and an article against Nolte and attempts to compare Communism to Nazism, by Enzo Traverso. The articles by Gauthier and Lih are the best in the book: Gauthier demonstrates excellently why the Jacobins were a progressive force and why they deserve our support, refutes the claims that the Vendée civil war was genocidal, shows how limited the so-called Terror of the revolution really was, especially compared with the Terror of the counter-revolution (the Revolutionary Tribunal acquitted almost as many people as it condemned, and even so the total cases was fewer than 5.000), and reject Furet's idealistic posturing. Lih, in turn, uses articles and speeches by Trotsky to refute the claim that the policy of "war communism" was considered positive or ideal by the Bolshevik leadership, as well as that the Bolsheviks made the crisis or made it worse, and that the Bolsheviks could have solved it less violently but didn't out of ideology. Lih shows that in contrast to all these claims, the hand of the leadership was forced, and that they considered their position "in the highest degree tragic". And indeed, that there was no widespread super-famine under the conditions of the Civil War is entirely to be ascribed to the competence of Bolshevik policy at the time. These articles are invaluable on their own.
At the end follow Marc Ferro's alternative reading of Nazi genocidal policy as following from the legacy of colonialism, which is somewhat meandering and vague; a defense of revolutions in general as producing democratic change by Geoff Eley (who oddly ignores the clearly anti-democratic Nazi revolution entirely), and finally a philosophical rambling on by Daniel Bensaïd about revolution in a totally unintelligible and annoying manner, typical of Parisian philosophers. This article could best have been scrapped.
Overall, the book is an excellent addition to any left-wing historical library.