Download or read book You Say You Want a Revolution written by Daniel Chirot and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure—and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremism Why 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.

Download or read book The Idealists written by Henry Carlisle and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the political and social chaos of the Russian Revolution, young Marina Nevsky and her family return from Paris to their homeland, where her father, a Socialist party chief, plunges into a revolutionary fray full of both idealism and betrayal. 10,000 first printing.

Download or read book The Social Political Ideas of Some Representative Thinkers of the Revolutionary Era written by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revolutionary Idealists to Revolutionary Statesmen written by Benjamin Carlos Montoya and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revolution and the Revolutionary Ideal written by Robert Blackey and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Publishing Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revolutionary States Leaders and Foreign Relations written by Houman A. Sadri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-04-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares and contrasts the foreign relations strategies of China, Cuba, and Iran in the first decade of their post-revolutionary periods. Among a variety of explanatory variables, leadership, particularly the type of revolutionary leaders, played a significant role in explaining the outcome of the policymaking process in each case. Three distinct patterns of foreign relations strategies are evident among all three revolutionary regimes in the ten-year period: Two-Track, Conflictual, and Conciliatory. This book is a valuable source for both experts and non-experts alike in providing insight into the foreign relations of revolutionary regimes in developing countries and in helping U.S. policymakers anticipate behaviors of future revolutionary leaders. A focal point of this book is the examination of the nonalignment strategies of these prominent developing countries during the infancy of their regimes. Each state's particular strategy is described and explained in detail and then contrasted and compared. Although there are differences among their foreign policies, considering their geographic locations, size, wealth, military capabilities, leadership characteristics, and political institutions, there are significant similarities regarding their foreign policy goals and trends in their foreign relations with the Great Powers. Among explanatory factors, leadership played a significant role in the policy making process, although the foreign relations strategies of these revolutionary regimes were fed by a combination of national and international variables. In all three states, the tone of foreign policy was set by revolutionary leaders who were either idealists or realists. Idealists tended to take a more active and conflictual approach toward one or both of the superpowers, while Realists were more cautious and less willing to resort to a conflictual posture. This book also investigates the gap between the theoretical and practical nonalignment stance of each state. This cross-regional study provides policy analysts with clues about the foreign policies of other revolutionary developing countries in similar situations. Finally, it makes suggestions about how a Great Power may relate to a developing country during its first post-revolution decade.

Download or read book Idealism Politics and History written by George Armstrong Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of linked studies, this text provides a wide-ranging analysis of the meeting of two vital themes in the French Revolutionary period.

Download or read book The Social Political Ideas of Some Reprensentative Thinkers of the Revolutionary Era written by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire in the Minds of Men written by James H. Billington and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.

Download or read book Debating Modern Revolution written by Jack R. Censer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this notion continues but has also developed its meanings. Equated with democracy and legal equality at first and surprisingly redefined into its modern meaning, revolution has become a means to create nations, change the social order, and throw out colonial occupiers, and has been labelled as both conservative and reactionary. In this concise introduction to the topic, Jack R. Censer charts the development of these competing ideas and definitions in four chronological sections. Each section includes a debate from protagonists who represent various forms of revolution and counterrevolution, allowing students a firmer grasp on the particular ideas and individuals of each era. This book offers a new approach to the topic of revolution for all students of world history.

Download or read book Revolutionary Visionaries Leaders and Thinkers Who Changed the Course of History written by George Wilton and published by Az Boek. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovery The Revolutionary Visionaries: Leaders and Thinkers Who Changed the Course of History

Download or read book Idealism and Revolution written by David Bouchier and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revolutionary Ideas written by Jonathan Israel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-23 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.

Download or read book Idealism as a Practical Creed written by Sir Henry Jones and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Revolutionary Ascetic written by Bruce Mazlish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung‘so often been ascetics, austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions, political as well as personal, do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his followers?Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that, beginning in the nineteenth century, the needs of modernizing revolutions have produced a distinct new type of political leader, the revolutionary ascetic. This individual's denial of personal pleasures and commitments both enables him to perform politically necessary, if personally repulsive, revolutionary acts, and to command the allegiance of his more worldly followers.Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution, Mazlish shows, in a series of fascinating personality sketches, how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was put to the service of a new kind of "total" modernizing revolution in Russia, China, and elsewhere. In two remarkably vivid portraits of Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, Mazlish shows us precisely how two of the century's best-known revolutionaries consciously and unconsciously used their personal asceticism to induce revolutionary change.

Download or read book The German Idealists written by Hermann Selchow and published by Hermann Selchow. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover with me the roots of our modern thinking! "The German Idealists - Is Patriotism Still Contemporary?" takes you on an exciting journey into the time of the Napoleonic occupation and shows you how important thinkers such as Fichte, Schelling and Hegel shaped not only philosophy but also the self-image of an entire nation. In a changing world, this book asks the important questions: What does patriotism mean in a globalized society? How can we preserve our identity and values ??while being open to the challenges of the present? This book is a must for anyone interested in philosophy, history and the great ideas of humanity. Let yourself be inspired by the thoughts of the German Idealists and find out what patriotism means today - beyond nationalism, but full of love for freedom, justice and humanity. "The German Idealists - Is Patriotism Still Contemporary?" - a book that makes you think and sharpens your eye for what is essential. Ideal for anyone who wants to delve deeply and reflectively into the topics of identity and national consciousness. Take part in the current discussions and discover the timeless values ??that hold us together as a society. Hermann Selchow

Download or read book Idealism as a Practical Creed written by Henry Jones and published by Slusser Press. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE WERE it not to take too great a liberty, I should dedicate this book to the Australian people for my memory of their kindness will not fade, and I would fain let the ill know that I am grateful. I have dedicated it to one who labours continually for their welfare, and to the memory of a great Idealist-his Teacher and my own. The book consists of lectures delivered before the University of Sydney. But the written must differ from the spoken word, and I have recast the lectures and added to them. HEGELS Inaugural Address at Heidelberg An invitation to the reflective life Philosophy not always in official garb its relation to poetry why taken in these lectures as meaning Idealism. Mans Life complex because it comprises his World Connexion of Philosophy and Life illustrated Hegel and Napoleon the First-which of them means most now Great men and their times. Ideas the only agents in mans life Human history a succeseion of ruling Ideas The Idea of Evolutiol now in power at work, before Darwin, in poetry and philosophy, and in the world an exponent of self- expanding life which is life attaining Freedom. IN taking up the task with which you have entrusted and honoured me, and inviting you to consider the bearing of philosophy upon modern life, I am reminded of the first words addressed by Hegel to his students in Heidelberg. It was in October of 1816. The Napoleonic wars had just closed with the battle of Waterloo. Germany had risen triumphant from those fatal fields, on which her sons were taught a base submission. She had saved her Nationality, as Hegel said, the basis and essence of the best life and she could now turn her mind to the arts of peace, and labour to fulfil the higher laws. Philosophy might once more engage the attention and the good-will of men. She might again lift up her voice grown so silent, and a world which had become well-nigh deaf to her might again be willing to listen. The spirit of the time immersed in matters temporal, its whole powers engaged in a fearful strife for the outward means of life, might now turn its thoughts inwards upon itself and take possession of the riches of its own content. The Church might now raise its head side by side with the secular State, which hitherto had swallowed up all interests. Side by side with the Kingdom of the World, towards which had streamed the thoughts and strivings of men, the Kingdom of God might become once more an object of contemplation and along with the political and other interests of the outer life, science, the free rational life of Spirit, might agnin break out into blossom. Speaking for those whose lives had matured amidst the storms, Hegel congratulated the students that their youth had fallen at a time when they could devote it to Truth, and the undisturbed pursuit of knowledge. I hope, he said, that I may deserve and win your confidence. But I make no claim upon you, save that, before all else, you put your trust, in knowledge, and in yourselves. The first condition of philosophy is courage towards the truth, faith in the might of mind. Man, because he is mind, may dare, may, must dare to think himself worthy of what is highest. The greatness and the power of mind he cannot esteem enough...