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The furies : violence and terror in the French and Russian Revolutions

Author: Arno J Mayer
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Arno J. Mayer revisits the two most tumultuous and influential revolutions of modern times: the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917." "In his comparison of the world's two transnational revolutions, Mayer follows their unfolding - from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Bolshevik Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Masses; the escalation of the initial  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Arno J Mayer
ISBN: 0691048975 9780691048970 0691090157 9780691090153
OCLC Number: 42934442
Description: xvii, 716 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: PART ONE CONCEPTUAL SIGNPOSTS --
1. Revolution --
2. Counterrevolution --
3. Violence --
4. Terror --
5. Vengeance --
6. Religion --
PART TWO CRESCENDO OF VIOLENCE --
7. The Return of Vengeance: Terror in France, 1789-95 --
8. In the Eye of a "Time of Troubles": Terror in Russia, 1917-21 --
PART THREE METROPOLITAN CONDESCENSION AND RURAL DISTRUST --
9. Peasant War in France: The Vendee --
10. Peasant War in Russia: Ukraine and Tambov --
PART FOUR THE SACRED CONTESTED --
11. Engaging the Gallican Church and the Vatican --
12. Engaging the Russian Orthodox Church --
13. Perils of Emancipation: Protestants and Jews in the Revolutionary Whirlwind --
PART FIVE A WORLD UNHINGED --
14. Externalization of the French Revolution: The Napoleonic Wars --
15. Internalization of the Russian Revolution: Terror in One Country.
Responsibility: Arno J. Mayer.
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"Arno J. Mayer revisits the two most tumultuous and influential revolutions of modern times: the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917." "In his comparison of the world's two transnational revolutions, Mayer follows their unfolding - from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Bolshevik Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Masses; the escalation of the initial violence into the reign of terror of 1793-95 and of 1918-21; the dismemberment of the hegemonic churches and religion of both societies; the "externalization" of the terror through the Napoleonic Wars; and its "internalization" in Soviet Russia in the form of Stalin's "Terror in One Country.""--Jacket.

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