- The Broken Wave
- Roy Hofheinz, Jr
- The reasons for the great debacle of the 1920s are set out in this book for the first time in all their complexity. As important as this history is, Hofheinz declares, the lessons Mao learned from his defeats are of even greater significance. The author demonstrates how Mao used ruralism, militarization, worship of numbers and not territory, and a fierce autonomy from other political groups to gain his ends.
- Hardcover 1977
- Children of the Revolution
- Robert Gildea
- For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon’s final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. This book follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789.
- Hardcover 2008
- China's Republican Revolution
- Edward Rhoads
- Hardcover 1975
- A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
- Edited by François Furet
- Edited by Mona Ozouf
- Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- Two centuries later, the French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this volume is not only to present the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also to bring one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate.
- Hardcover 1989
- Festivals and the French Revolution
- Mona Ozouf
- Translated by Alan Sheridan
- Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals; Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1991
- The First Professional Revolutionist
- Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
- This is a relatively brief, interpretive treatment of the man whom Bakunin called "the greatest conspirator of the century" but whom most English-speaking scholars know, if at all, as an obscure, misspelled name. In the introduction, a distinction is drawn between the "amateur" revolutionist and the frequently unemployed professional who attempted to create a situation that would make possible the practice of his craft and who had a vested interest in "revolution" in general but did not necessarily play a part in any particular revolution.
- Hardcover 1959
- The Formation of the Soviet Union
- Richard Pipes
- Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area--first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.
- Paperback 1997
- The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789-1832
- Seamus Deane
- Hardcover 1988
- Kenmu
- Andrew Goble
- The short-lived Kenmu regime (1333-1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as an inevitably doomed, revanchist attempt to shore up the old aristocratic order. But far from resisting change, Andrew Edmund Goble here forcefully argues, the flamboyant Go-Daigo and his associates sought to overcome the old order and renegotiate its structure and ethos.
- Hardcover 1996
- Lao She and the Chinese Revolution
- Ranbir Vohra
- By exhaustively analyzing Lao She's literary writings, Vohra traces the development of his political consciousness and convictions. Besides being an introduction to the life and works of Lao She, this book contributes to a greater understanding of the nature of the social and political change in twentieth-century China.
- Hardcover 1974
- The Making of an Insurrection
- Morris Slavin
- Hardcover 1986
- The May Fourth Movement
- Tse-tung Chow
- Paperback
- Missionaries of Revolution
- C. Martin Wilbur
- Julie Lien-ying How
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback
- The Notables and the Nation
- Vivian R. Gruder
- The ending of absolute, centralized monarchy and the beginning of political combat between nobles and commoners make the years 1787 to 1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. In a detailed examination of this critical transition, Gruder examines how the French people became engaged in a movement of opposition that culminated in demands for the public's role in government.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution
- Michael P. Fitzsimmons
- This investigation not only revises what historians have long thought of the attitude of barristers toward the French Revolution, but also offers insights into the corporate character of Old Regime society and how the Revolution affected it.
- Hardcover 1987
- Prologue to the Chinese Revolution
- Charlton M. Lewis
- Hardcover 1976
- Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795
- Philip Dawson
- This monograph contributes research findings to the historical controversy over the political motives and conduct of the upper bourgeoisie during the French Revolution. Dawson makes use of a variety of manuscript materials pertinent to the magistrates as he treats their activities as members of corporate groups before 1790 and follows many of them as individuals through the revolutionary years to 1795.
- Hardcover 1972
- The Puritan Moment
- William Hunt
- Paperback
- Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution
- Hue-Tam Ho Tai
- Hue-Tam Ho Tai does justice to the influence of radicalism on a crucial point in Vietnamese history. She reveals a vibrant and explosive era of student strikes, debates on women's emancipation, revolt against the patriarchal family, and intellectual explorations of French and Chinese politics and thought.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1996
- A Requiem for Karl Marx
- Frank E. Manuel
- As Karl Marx the icon has fallen along with so many communist regimes, we are left with the mystery of Karl Marx the man, the complexities of a life that has profoundly affected millions. A Requiem for Karl Marx is Frank Manuel's searching meditation on that life, a learned and elegantly written engagement with the man and his work.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1998
- Revolution on My Mind
- Jochen Hellbeck
- Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia, showing us the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives in diaries during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Jochen Hellbeck brings us face to face with gripping and unforgettably poignant life stories. This book brilliantly explores the forging of the revolutionary self in a study that speaks to the evolution of the individual in mass movements of our own time.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2009
- Revolutionary Politics in the Long Parliament
- John R. MacCormack
- This volume is a systematic study of the politics of five crucial years of the Puritan Revolution, the period between John Pym's death in December 1643 and the execution of Charles I in January 1649. MacCormack examines the Long Parliament and the structures of its parties. He investigates the degree to which the division between parties was religious or political, the character of the leadership of the two major groups, and the transformation of the parties during the five-year period.
- Hardcover 1973
- Terrorists and Social Democrats
- Norman M. Naimark
- Hardcover 1983
- Two Years in Revolutionary China, 1925-1927
- Vera Vladimirovna Vishnyakova-Akimova
- Paperback 1971
- The Ukraine, 1917-1921
- Edited by Taras Hunczak
- Hardcover 1978
- The Urban Crucible
- Gary B. Nash
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
- The Vanishing Children of Paris
- Arlette Farge
- Jacques Revel
- Translated by Claudia Mieville
- Paperback
- When the King Took Flight
- Timothy Tackett
- On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004