You Say You Want a Revolution? (eBook)

Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences

Daniel Chirot (Autor)

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2020
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19990-0 (ISBN)

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Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure-and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremismWhy have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? And what lessons can be drawn from these failures today, in a world where political extremism is on the rise and rational reform based on moderation and compromise often seems impossible to achieve? In You Say You Want a Revolution?, Daniel Chirot examines a wide range of right- and left-wing revolutions around the world-from the late eighteenth century to today-to provide important new answers to these critical questions.From the French Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Mexican, Russian, German, Chinese, anticolonial, and Iranian revolutions of the twentieth, Chirot finds that moderate solutions to serious social, economic, and political problems were overwhelmed by radical ideologies that promised simpler, drastic remedies. But not all revolutions had this outcome. The American Revolution didn't, although its failure to resolve the problem of slavery eventually led to the Civil War, and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was relatively peaceful, except in Yugoslavia. From Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cambodia to Algeria, Angola, Haiti, and Romania, You Say You Want a Revolution? explains why violent radicalism, corruption, and the betrayal of ideals won in so many crucial cases, why it didn't in some others-and what the long-term prospects for major social change are if liberals can't deliver needed reforms.A powerful account of the unintended consequences of revolutionary change, You Say You Want a Revolution? is filled with critically important lessons for today's liberal democracies struggling with new forms of extremism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adolf Hitler • Adolf Hitler's rise to power • Alexander Kerensky • Algeria • Ancien Régime • aristocracy • Asian History • autocracy • bolsheviks • Bolshevism • Bourgeoisie • Cambodia • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Central Asia • Centre-left politics • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord • Civil War • communism • Communist Party of China • communist revolution • communist state • Constitutional Monarchy • Corruption • Counterrevolution • counter-revolutionary • coup d'état • Cuban Revolution • Cultural revolution • democratic revolution • Deng Xiaoping • Dictatorship • Eastern Europe • Egypt • English Revolution • Eric Hobsbawm • European History • Extremism • Fascism and ideology • Global History • Great Power • guerrilla warfare • Harvard University Press • history of revolution • history of revolutions • Hitler • Ho Chi Minh • hostility • Ideology • imperialism • Institution • Iranian Revolution • jacobin • Khmer Rouge • Khomeni • left-wing politics • Lenin • Leninism • Leon Trotsky • lessons of revolutions • liberal democracy • Liu Shaoqi • MAO • Mao Zedong • Marxism • Marxism–Leninism • Mein Kampf • mensheviks • Mexican Revolution • Military Dictatorship • Modernity • Napoleon • Nazi • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazis • Nazism • New Economic Policy • North Korea • north vietnam • Old Bolshevik • Oxford University Press • peasant • Philosopher • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Pol Pot • Princeton University Press • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • radical utopianism • Reign of Terror • Repression • Reprisal • Revolution • revolutionary situation • revolutionary stages • revolution stages • Ruhollah Khomeini • Russian Empire • Russian Revolution • secret police • Shapour Bakhtiar • skepticism • Slavery • Soviet Union • Stalin • Stalinism • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • Syria • The Black Book of Communism • theory of revolutions • Thermidorian Reaction • Third World revolution • Totalitarianism • Trotskyism • Tsarist autocracy • Tunisia • Violence • violent • Vladimir Putin • war effort • warfare • Weimar Republic • What Happened • World History • World War I • World War II • Writing • Yugoslavia
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19990-6 / 0691199906
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19990-0 / 9780691199900