Screen LibraryStates and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China /
Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Canto classics edition. |
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Canto classics
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| Summary: |
Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. |
| Item Description: | First published in 1979. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 407 pages : map ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-390) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107569843 1107569842 |
| Index Number: | HM876 |
| CLC: | D756.51 |
| Call Number: | D756.51/S628/2015 |
| Contents: | Introduction: 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. Old-regime states in crisis. Old regime France : the contradictions of Bourbon absolutism ; Manchu China : from the Celestial Empire to the fall of the imperial system ; Imperial Russia : an underdeveloped great power ; Japan and Prussia as contrasts -- 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 -- Part II: Outcomes of social revolutions in France, Russia, and China. What changed and how : a focus on state building. Political leaderships ; The role of revolutionary ideologies -- 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 -- The emergence of a dictatorial party-state in Russia. The effects of the social-revolutionary crisis of 1917 ; The Bolshevik struggle to rule ; The Stalinist "revolution from above" ; The new regime -- 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. |