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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... individuals , does not guarantee that we can predict the outcome of any individual decision sequence with absolute certainty . This is concealed in many cases because governments have institutional solidarity . The individuals of which ...
... individuals , does not guarantee that we can predict the outcome of any individual decision sequence with absolute certainty . This is concealed in many cases because governments have institutional solidarity . The individuals of which ...
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... individual relevance to revol- utionary processes . Enough has been said to show that revolution is a matter not simply of the mobilization of latent interest groups but of an institutional structure within which that mobilization ...
... individual relevance to revol- utionary processes . Enough has been said to show that revolution is a matter not simply of the mobilization of latent interest groups but of an institutional structure within which that mobilization ...
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... individual factors in determining the role played by individuals in revolutionary situations , except in the case of a handful of leaders we still really know very little about why they acted in the way that they did . Since the 1920s ...
... individual factors in determining the role played by individuals in revolutionary situations , except in the case of a handful of leaders we still really know very little about why they acted in the way that they did . Since the 1920s ...
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