Revolution and Counter-revolutionOpen University Press, 1990 - 90 síður Revolution remains a key concept in the social sciences. After the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, a debate still rages over its causes and meaning. At the same time as, in Eastern Europe, much of what the Russian Revolution was believed to have stood for is being rejected, the Chinese leadership has reaffirmed its right to maintain revolutionary political orthodoxy by force. In this book Professor Calvert aims to show how revolution must by its nature be disputed. When people observe revolutions, their interpretations of what they are seeing are conditioned by changing intellectual fashion and by wishful thinking and so too are the theories derived from them. This book re-examines the place of revolution in modern social theory and at the same time reasserts the need for systematic study in the social sciences. |
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... transformation could take place . Mass uprisings , such as that in Russia in 1905 , were a clear sign that the time for reform had come . So in Britain , when he heard the news that Tsar Nicholas II had yielded to the wishes of his ...
... transformation could take place . Mass uprisings , such as that in Russia in 1905 , were a clear sign that the time for reform had come . So in Britain , when he heard the news that Tsar Nicholas II had yielded to the wishes of his ...
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... transformation of society is something that most people do not take seriously . In the Aberle classification of social movements ( Giddens 1989 , p . 625 ) , only transformative move- ments - that is , those seeking radical structural ...
... transformation of society is something that most people do not take seriously . In the Aberle classification of social movements ( Giddens 1989 , p . 625 ) , only transformative move- ments - that is , those seeking radical structural ...
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... transformations in modern world history ' ( Skocpol 1979 , p . xi ) . In their broad sweep from Old to New ... transformation . ( Skocpol 1979 , p . 4 ) Having dismissed existing social - scientific explanations of revol- ution ...
... transformations in modern world history ' ( Skocpol 1979 , p . xi ) . In their broad sweep from Old to New ... transformation . ( Skocpol 1979 , p . 4 ) Having dismissed existing social - scientific explanations of revol- ution ...
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