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Author:

Skocpol, Theda.

Title:

States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China / Theda Skocpol.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1979

Description:

xvii, 407 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Revolutions--Case studies.
Revolutions--France--History.
Revolutions--Soviet Union--History.
Revolutions--China--History.
Revoluciones--Francia.
Revoluciones--Rusia.
Revoluciones--China.
Révolutions--Cas, Études de.
Révolutions--France--Histoire.
Révolutions--Russie--Histoire.
Révolutions--Chine--Histoire.
Revoluties.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 351-390. Includes index.

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? -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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.

ISBN:

9780521294997 (pbk.)
0521294991 (pbk.)
9780521224390
052122439X

LCCN:

78014314

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