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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... conflict , in the emerging Third World , insurgents struggling to free themselves from a colonial domination already on the retreat were caught up in the ideological matrix , and the rival alliances contended to make their struggles ...
... conflict , in the emerging Third World , insurgents struggling to free themselves from a colonial domination already on the retreat were caught up in the ideological matrix , and the rival alliances contended to make their struggles ...
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... conflict within rather than between states . ' Internal war ' is a useful and valid concept . The international ... conflicts lying within a single state's territorial boundaries . Such conflicts are fairly common . Often they do ...
... conflict within rather than between states . ' Internal war ' is a useful and valid concept . The international ... conflicts lying within a single state's territorial boundaries . Such conflicts are fairly common . Often they do ...
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... Conflict is seen simply as a special case of political violence , in which another group competing for the same values becomes identified as the cause of the discrepancy between expectations and outcomes . But Gurr wishes to avoid the ...
... Conflict is seen simply as a special case of political violence , in which another group competing for the same values becomes identified as the cause of the discrepancy between expectations and outcomes . But Gurr wishes to avoid the ...
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