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The Last Revolutionaries - The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals (Hardcover)
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The Last Revolutionaries - The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals (Hardcover)
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The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive
the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic's
defeat "Very much a book for our times. Mason's retelling of the
trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the French Revolution shows how
democracies end. Historians of revolutions and all those concerned
with the arc of social justice movements have much to learn from
this remarkable story."-Sophia Rosenfeld, University of
Pennsylvania Laura Mason tells a new story about the French
Revolution by exploring the trial of Gracchus Babeuf. Named by Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels as the "first modern communist," Babeuf
was a poor man, an autodidact, and an activist accused of
conspiring to reignite the Revolution and renew political terror.
In one of the lengthiest and most controversial trials of the
revolutionary decade, Babeuf and his allies defended political
liberty and social equality against a regime they accused of
tyranny. Mason refracts national political life through Babeuf's
trial to reveal how this explosive event destabilized a fragile
republic. Although the French Revolution is celebrated as a
founding moment of modern representative government, this book
reminds us that the experiment failed in just ten years. Mason
explains how an elected government's assault on popular democracy
and social justice destroyed the republic, and why that matters
now.
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