Title:
The anatomy of revolution. --
Classification:
321.094 B858
Publisher:
New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Vintage Books, c1965.
Edition:
Revised and expanded edition
Description:
x, 310 p. ; 19 cm.
Series:
A Vintage Book ; 44
Subjects:
Notes:
Incluye bibliografía (Pp. 272-296)
Contents:
I. Introduction. -- 1. The field of study. -- 2. The bare elements of scientific methods. -- 3. The application of scientific methods to this study. -- 4. Limitations of the subject. -- II. The old regimes. -- 1. The diagnosis of preliminary signs. -- 2. Structural weaknesses, economic and political. -- 3. The transfer of allegiance of the intellectuals. -- 4. Classes and class antagonisms. -- 5. Summary. -- III. First stages of revolution. -- 1. The eternal Figaro. -- 2. The events of the first stages. -- 3. Spontaneity or planning?. -- 4. The role of force. -- 5. The honeymoon. -- IV. Types of revolutionists. -- 1. The clichés. -- 2. Economic and social position: rank and file. -- 3. Economic and social position: leaders. -- 4. Character and disposition. -- 5. Summary. -- V. The rule of the moderates. -- 1. The problem of the moderates. -- 2. Events during the rule of moderates. -- 3. Dual sovereignty. -- 4. Weakness of the moderates. -- 5. Summary. -- VI. The accession of the extremists. -- 1. The Coup d'État. -- 2. Organization of the extremists. -- 3. Fitness of the extremists. -- 4. The machinery of dictatorship. -- VII. Reigns of terror and virtue. -- 1. Pervasiveness of the terror. -- 2. The terror and the outsider. -- 3. The terror and the insider: the religious parallel. -- 4. Explanations of the terror. -- VIII. Thermidor. -- 1. Universality of the thermidorean reaction. -- 2. Amnesty and repression. -- 3. Return of the church. -- 4. The search for pleasure. -- 5. Russia: permanent revolution?. -- 6. Summary. -- IX. A summary of the work of revolutions. -- 1. Changes in institutions and ideas. -- 2. Some tentative uniformities. -- 3. A paradox of revolution. -- Epilogue. -- Bibliographical appendix. --
Summary:
Tomado de Amazon: "The definitive, hugely influential comparative history of the English, American, French and Russian revolutions from a renowned American scholar. "Classic" and "famous," The Anatomy of Revolution examines the patterns and processes that all revolutions share. "
