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States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China
- Title
- States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China / Theda Skocpol.
- Author
- Skocpol, Theda.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- xvii, 407 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Revolutions > China > History
- Revolutions > Case studies
- Revolution
- Revoluciones > Rusia
- China > Revolution (1911)
- Revoluciones > Francia
- Révolutions > Chine > Histoire
- Revoluties
- Fallstudiensammlung
- Revolutions > Soviet Union > History
- Révolutions > Russie > Histoire
- France > 1789-1799 (Révolution)
- URSS > 1917-1921 (Révolution)
- Oktoberrevolution
- Révolutions > France > Histoire
- Französische Revolution
- Revolutions > France > History
- Révolutions > Cas, Études de
- Révolutions > URSS > 1900-1945
- Chine > 1911-1912 (Révolution)
- Revoluciones > China
- Révolutions > Études comparatives
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-390) and 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
- 052122439X
- 9780521224390
- 0521294991 (pbk.)
- 9780521294997 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 78014314
- OCLC
- ocm04135856
- 4135856
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries