States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China/ (Record no. 147523)
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International Standard Book Number | 0521294991 |
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Transcribing agency | CUS |
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Classification number | 303.64 |
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Personal name | Skocpol, Theda |
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Title | States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China/ |
Statement of responsibility, etc. | Theda Skocpol |
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge: |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1979. |
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Extent | xvii, 407 p. : |
Other physical details | ill. ; |
Dimensions | 24 cm. |
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Formatted contents note | 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? --<br/>Part I: 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 --<br/>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 --<br/>Part II: 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 --<br/>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 --<br/>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 --<br/>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. |
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Keyword | Revolutions |
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Keyword | France |
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Keyword | Soviet Union |
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Keyword | Politics and government |
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Koha item type | General Books |
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Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 303.64 SKO/S | P02170 | 13/07/2018 | 13/07/2018 | General Books |