History's locomotives : revolutions and the making of the modern world / Martin Malia ; edited and with a foreword by Terence Emmons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malia, Martin E. (Martin Edward)

Contributor:

Emmons, Terence.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Europe--History.

Revolutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This masterful comparative history traces the West's revolutionary tradition and its culmination in the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Unique in breadth and scope, History's Locomotives offers a new interpretation of the origins and history of socialism as well as the meanings of the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet regime, and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.History's Locomotives is the masterwork of an esteemed historian in whom a fine sense of historical particularity never interfered with the ability to see the large picture.Martin Malia explores religious conflicts in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, the revolutions in England, American, and France, and the twentieth-century Russian explosions into revolution. He concludes that twentieth-century revolutions have deep roots in European history and that revolutionary thought and action underwent a process of radicalization from one great revolution to the next. Malia offers an original view of the phenomenon of revolution and a fascinating assessment of its power as a driving force in history.

Contents:

Historic Europe: the medieval matrix and its internal contradictions, 1000-1400

Hussite Bohemia, 1415-1436: from heresy to proto-revolution

Lutheran Germany, 1517-1555: the Reformation as semi-revolution

Huguenot France, 1559-1598

The Netherlands' revolt, 1566-1609

England, 1640-1660-1688: from religious to political revolution

America, 1776-1787: revolution as great good fortune

France, 1789-1799: revolution as militant modernity

From the first modern revolution to the first anticipated revolution, 1799-1848: the nineteenth century at a glance

Marxism and the Second International, 1848-1914

Red October: the revolution to end all revolutions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-281-73504-3

9786611735043

0-300-13528-9

OCLC:

952737088