You say you want a revolution? : radical idealism and its tragic consequences / Daniel Chirot
"This book poses the question of why revolutions--from the French Revolution through the Russian and more recent revolutions--tend to produce tragic outcomes. As the author puts it: 'I have become intrigued with the idea of writing a short book on why so many revolutions turn into bloody c...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Chirot, Daniel |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2020] © 2020 |
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| Internet: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Inhaltsangabe |
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| Revolution as tragedy |
| Incompetence, chaos, and extremism : how more moderate forces lost control in France, Russia, Iran, and Germany |
| Reaction, war, invasion, and revolutionary terror |
| The tyranny of idealistic certitude and imagined utopias |
| Revolutions betrayed : autocratic corruption and the end of idealistic third worldism |
| Peaceful revolutions? : interpreting conservative and liberal successes and failures |
| Are there lessons for us to learn? |
