States and social revolutions :
Skocpol, Theda
States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China by Theda Skocpol. - U K : Cambridge University Press, ©2015. - xvii, 407 p. : map ; 22 cm. - Canto classics . - Canto classics. .
First published in 1979.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-390) and index.
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.
Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
9781107569843
2015487566
Revolutions--Case studies.
Revolutions--History.--France
Revolutions--History.--Soviet Union
Revolutions--History.--China
Revolutions.
China.
France.
Soviet Union.
Case studies.
History.
HM876 / .S56 2015
303.64 / SKO-S
States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China by Theda Skocpol. - U K : Cambridge University Press, ©2015. - xvii, 407 p. : map ; 22 cm. - Canto classics . - Canto classics. .
First published in 1979.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-390) and index.
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.
Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
9781107569843
2015487566
Revolutions--Case studies.
Revolutions--History.--France
Revolutions--History.--Soviet Union
Revolutions--History.--China
Revolutions.
China.
France.
Soviet Union.
Case studies.
History.
HM876 / .S56 2015
303.64 / SKO-S