ISBN:
9781316457788
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 407 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Canto Classics
Parallel Title:
Print version Skocpol, Theda States and Social Revolutions : A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Skocpol, Theda, 1947 - States and social revolutions
DDC:
301.6/333
Keywords:
Revolutions Case studies
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Revolutions History
;
Revolutions History
;
Revolutions History
;
Revolutions ; Case studies
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Revolutions ; France ; History
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Revolutions ; Soviet Union ; History
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Revolutions ; China ; History
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Electronic books
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Oktoberrevolution
;
Französische Revolution
;
Revolution
Abstract:
State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. 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. It develops 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, Skocpol 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
Abstract:
Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Explaining Social Revolutions: Alternatives to Existing Theories -- A Structural Perspective -- International and World-historical Contexts -- The Potential Autonomy of the State -- A Comparative Historical Method -- Why France, Russia, and China? -- Part I Causes of Social Revolutions in France, Russia, and China -- 2. Old-Regime States in Crisis -- Old-Regime France: The Contradictions of Bourbon Absolutism
Abstract:
Manchu China: From the Celestial Empire to the Fall of the Imperial System -- Imperial Russia: An Underdeveloped Great Power -- Japan and Prussia as Contrasts -- 3. Agrarian Structures and Peasant Insurrections -- Peasants Against Seigneurs in the French Revolution -- The Revolution of the Obshchinas: Peasant Radicalism in Russia -- Two Counterpoints: The Absence of Peasant Revolts in the English and German Revolutions -- Peasant Incapacity and Gentry Vulnerability in China
Abstract:
Part II Outcomes of Social Revolutions in France, Russia, and China -- 4. What Changed and How: A Focus on State Building -- Political Leaderships -- The Role of Revolutionary Ideologies -- 5. The Birth of a ""Modern State Edifice"" in France -- A Bourgeois Revolution? -- The Effects of the Social-Revolutionary Crisis of 1789 -- War, the Jacobins, and Napoleon -- The New Regime -- 6. The Emergence of a Dictatorial Party-State in Russia -- The Effects of the Social-Revolutionary Crisis of 1917 -- The Bolshevik Struggle to Rule
Abstract:
The Stalinist ""Revolution from Above"" -- The New Regime -- 7. The Rise of a Mass-Mobilizing Party-State in China -- The Social-Revolutionary Situation after 1911 -- The Rise and Decline of the Urban-Based Kuomintang -- The Communists and the Peasants -- The New Regime -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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