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Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this
book offers an important new approach to the theoretical and
comparative study of revolutions. Bailey Stone proposes an
innovative "neostructuralist" integration of competing
structuralist and postmodernist theory. Providing a balanced and
nuanced critique of both sides, he presents new ways of
understanding radical change in the European polities that created
the concept-and the dramatic realities-of modern revolution. He
focuses on the central issues of modernizers versus
traditionalists, old regime bourgeoisies, regicides, terror, and
state legitimacy. By reconciling political and cultural theories of
revolutionary causation and process, Stone's synthesis marks a
critical advance in our understanding of revolution.
Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian revolutions, this
book offers an important new approach to the theoretical and
comparative study of revolutions. Bailey Stone proposes an
innovative “neostructuralist” integration of competing
structuralist and postmodernist theory. Providing a balanced and
nuanced critique of both sides, he presents new ways of
understanding radical change in the European polities that created
the concept—and the dramatic realities—of modern revolution. He
focuses on the central issues of modernizers versus
traditionalists, old regime bourgeoisies, regicides, terror, and
state legitimacy. By reconciling political and cultural theories of
revolutionary causation and process, Stone’s synthesis marks a
critical advance in our understanding of revolution.
This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary
analysis, Crane Brinton's 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It
invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history,
political science and political sociology to compare and contrast,
in their successive phases, the English Revolution of 1640-60, the
French Revolution of 1789-99 and the Russian Revolution of 1917-29.
This book intends to do what no other comparative analysis of
revolutionary change has yet adequately done. It not only
progresses beyond Marxian socioeconomic 'class' analysis and early
'revisionist' stresses on short-term, accidental factors involved
in revolutionary causation and process; it also finds ways to
reconcile 'state-centered' structuralist accounts of the three
major European revolutions with postmodernist explanations of those
upheavals that play up the centrality of human agency,
revolutionary discourse, mentalities, ideology and political
culture.
This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary
analysis, Crane Brinton's 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It
invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history,
political science and political sociology to compare and contrast,
in their successive phases, the English Revolution of 1640-60, the
French Revolution of 1789-99 and the Russian Revolution of 1917-29.
This book intends to do what no other comparative analysis of
revolutionary change has yet adequately done. It not only
progresses beyond Marxian socioeconomic 'class' analysis and early
'revisionist' stresses on short-term, accidental factors involved
in revolutionary causation and process; it also finds ways to
reconcile 'state-centered' structuralist accounts of the three
major European revolutions with postmodernist explanations of those
upheavals that play up the centrality of human agency,
revolutionary discourse, mentalities, ideology and political
culture.
Bailey Stone uses recent scholarship on the diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of eighteenth-century revolutionary France to examine the outbreak of the French Revolution and the dramatic developments of the subsequent decade. Stone finds events of the period attributable to the interacting pressures of international and domestic politics on those national leaders attempting to govern France and to modernize its institutions. He contends that the Revolution of 1789-1799 needs to be viewed in the larger contexts of "early modern" and "modern" French history and modern "progressive" sociopolitical revolutions.
Bailey Stone uses recent scholarship on the diplomatic, political, social, economic, and cultural history of eighteenth-century revolutionary France to examine the outbreak of the French Revolution and the dramatic developments of the subsequent decade. Stone finds events of the period attributable to the interacting pressures of international and domestic politics on those national leaders attempting to govern France and to modernize its institutions. He contends that the Revolution of 1789-1799 needs to be viewed in the larger contexts of "early modern" and "modern" French history and modern "progressive" sociopolitical revolutions.
The Genesis of the French Revolution, first published in 1994,
offers an interesting synthesis of the long- and short-term causes
of the French Revolution. Instead of focusing exclusively upon
developments within France, the book immediately places the
country, and its revolution, within an international setting.
Bailey Stone argues that the French Revolution stemmed from the
pre-revolutionary state's converging failures in international and
domestic affairs; the monarchy failed not only to remain in touch
with changing social, intellectual, and political realities at
home, but also to harness its citizens' ambitions and talents to
the purpose of maintaining the country's international power and
prestige. This analysis also provides a key to comprehending the
course of events in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France -
and an insight into why revolutionary movements broke out in the
former USSR and its surrounding countries.
The Genesis of the French Revolution, first published in 1994,
offers an interesting synthesis of the long- and short-term causes
of the French Revolution. Instead of focusing exclusively upon
developments within France, the book immediately places the
country, and its revolution, within an international setting.
Bailey Stone argues that the French Revolution stemmed from the
pre-revolutionary state's converging failures in international and
domestic affairs; the monarchy failed not only to remain in touch
with changing social, intellectual, and political realities at
home, but also to harness its citizens' ambitions and talents to
the purpose of maintaining the country's international power and
prestige. This analysis also provides a key to comprehending the
course of events in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France -
and an insight into why revolutionary movements broke out in the
former USSR and its surrounding countries.
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