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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... example , since it will always mean different things to those who work for and those who work against it . What value such concepts may have depends in practice , therefore , on ways in which individuals or social groups are attempting ...
... example , since it will always mean different things to those who work for and those who work against it . What value such concepts may have depends in practice , therefore , on ways in which individuals or social groups are attempting ...
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... example , is , as we know , a way of determining who has authority to allocate scarce resources . But ( like religion and sport ) it is also a method of structuring time and giving meaning to life . The consequence of this structuring ...
... example , is , as we know , a way of determining who has authority to allocate scarce resources . But ( like religion and sport ) it is also a method of structuring time and giving meaning to life . The consequence of this structuring ...
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... example of a so - called great revolution falls in the fifth category , that of conspiratorial coups d'état ( why ... examples of the first three ( jacquerie , millen- arian rebellion , anarchistic rebellion ) can hardly be ...
... example of a so - called great revolution falls in the fifth category , that of conspiratorial coups d'état ( why ... examples of the first three ( jacquerie , millen- arian rebellion , anarchistic rebellion ) can hardly be ...
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