Windows Into A Revolution

Author : Alpa Shah,Judith Pettigrew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351381819

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Windows into a Revolution by Alpa Shah,Judith Pettigrew Pdf

Windows into a Revolution edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions. Weaving through the nostalgic reflections of former Bengali Naxalites; the resurgence of ancestral conflicts in the spread of the Maoists in the remote hills of western Nepal; the disillusionments of dalits of central Bihar in the policies of the cadres; to the complexities of the interrelationship between non-aligned civilians and insurgents in central Nepal, the book offers a series of windows into different stages of mobilization and transformation into what are, were or may become, revolutionary strongholds. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Author : Alpa Shah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:549469754

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Windows Into a Revolution by Alpa Shah Pdf

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632864222

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The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter Pdf

The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. Frank Dikötter uses this wealth of material to undermine the picture of complete conformity that is often supposed to have characterized the last years of the Mao era. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, The Cultural Revolution casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.

Author : Bette W. Oliver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793618542

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Witness to the Revolution by Bette W. Oliver Pdf

One of the least likely survivors of the Jacobin purge of the National Convention in early 1793 was Jean-Baptiste Louvet, the author of the popular eighteenth-century romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas. Had it not been for the upheaval caused by the revolution in 1789, Louvet undoubtedly would have continued to build his promising literary career. Few of his readers could have imagined that this frail, young man would be elected as a deputy in the national assembly, where he dared to oppose powerful Jacobin leaders like Robespierre. His limited formal education and background as a bookstore clerk set Louvet apart among his legally trained friends in the Brissotin/Girondin faction; yet his intelligence, courage, and loyalty led them to appreciate his skills and friendship. Louvet would be the only one among the group to survive the proscription of the Girondins and life as a fugitive. He returned to Paris following the Jacobins’ downfall in July 1794, to serve again in the National Convention and then in the newly elected government of the Directory.

Author : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674972063

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Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Pdf

Russians from all walks of life joyously celebrated the end of Nicholas II’s monarchy, but one year later, amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new perspective on Russia’s revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its devastating effect on ordinary people.

Author : Neera Chandhoke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474224031

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Democracy and Revolutionary Politics by Neera Chandhoke Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become a routine way of doing politics in countries such as India? By exploring the concept of political violence from the perspective of critical political theory, Neera Chandhoke investigates its nature, justification and contradictions. She uses the case study of Maoist revolutionaries in India to globalize and relocate the debate alongside questions of social injustice, exploitation, oppression and imperfect democracies. As such, this is an important and much-needed contribution to the dialogue surrounding revolutionary violence.

Author : June Grasso,Jay Corrin,Michael Kort
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003855828

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Modernization and Revolution in China by June Grasso,Jay Corrin,Michael Kort Pdf

Extensively revised and fully updated in this sixth edition, this popular textbook conveys the drama of China’s struggle to modernize against the backdrop of a proud and difficult history. Featuring a new analysis of the issues facing China’s fifth generation of leaders, it explores prominent developments including China’s relations with its neighbors and the United States, the humanitarian crises in Tibet and Xinjiang, and the progression of Xi Jinping. Incorporating new analytical summaries in each chapter and updated suggested readings, this new edition covers: The breakdown of imperial China in the face of Japanese and Western encroachments The struggles between the ideologies and armies of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution Deng Xiaoping’s reforms and the resulting dismantling of socialism and economic growth • China’s position as a world superpower and Xi Jinping’s leadership The Covid-19 pandemic Spanning the years from China’s defeat in the Opium Wars to its current status as a world superpower, the sixth edition of Modernization and Revolution in China is an essential textbook for courses on modern Chinese history, Chinese politics, and modern East Asia.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick,Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691190235

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In the Shadow of Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick,Yuri Slezkine Pdf

Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century. As is characteristic of twentieth-century Russian women's autobiographies, these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. Accordingly the collection is structured around the events these women see as touchstones: the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20; the switch to the New Economic Policy in the 1920s and collectivization; and the Stalinist society of the 1930s, including the Great Terror. Edited by two preeminent historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, the volume includes introductions that investigate the social historical context of these women's lives as well as the structure of their autobiographical narratives.

Author : Andrew S. Walmsley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814793411

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Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution by Andrew S. Walmsley Pdf

This first biography of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780) in a quarter century portrays a loyal to England official made "the butt of a faction" in the revolutionaries' quest for legitimacy. Walmsley (US history, Houston Community College) thus views the Revolution from the losers' perspective. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Archibald Alison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHU11

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History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815 by Archibald Alison Pdf

Author : Archibald Alison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Europe
ISBN : UIUC:30112055076217

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History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in M. DCC. LXXXiX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M. DCCC. XV. by Archibald Alison Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B4536041

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Literature of the World Revolution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Max Parra
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292774162

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Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution by Max Parra Pdf

The 1910 Mexican Revolution saw Francisco "Pancho" Villa grow from social bandit to famed revolutionary leader. Although his rise to national prominence was short-lived, he and his followers (the villistas) inspired deep feelings of pride and power amongst the rural poor. After the Revolution (and Villa's ultimate defeat and death), the new ruling elite, resentful of his enormous popularity, marginalized and discounted him and his followers as uncivilized savages. Hence, it was in the realm of culture rather than politics that his true legacy would be debated and shaped. Mexican literature following the Revolution created an enduring image of Villa and his followers. Writing Pancho Villa's Revolution focuses on the novels, chronicles, and testimonials written from 1925 to 1940 that narrated Villa's grassroots insurgency and celebrated—or condemned—his charismatic leadership. By focusing on works by urban writers Mariano Azuela (Los de abajo) and Martín Luis Guzmán (El águila y la serpiente), as well as works closer to the violent tradition of northern Mexican frontier life by Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Celia Herrera (Villa ante la historia), and Rafael F. Muñoz (¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!), this book examines the alternative views of the revolution and of the villistas. Max Parra studies how these works articulate different and at times competing views about class and the cultural "otherness" of the rebellious masses. This unique revisionist study of the villista novel also offers a deeper look into the process of how a nation's collective identity is formed.

Author : M. Mignet
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664645753

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History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. Mignet Pdf

History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 is a work of French History by M. Mignet. Mignet was a French journalist and historian of the French Revolution. Excerpt: "I am about to take a rapid review of the history of the French revolution, which began the era of new societies in Europe, as the English revolution had begun the era of new governments. This revolution not only modified the political power, but it entirely changed the internal existence of the nation. The forms of the society of the middle ages still remained. The land was divided into hostile provinces, the population into rival classes. The nobility had lost all their powers, but still retained all their distinctions: the people had no rights, royalty no limits; France was in an utter confusion of arbitrary administration, of class legislation and special privileges to special bodies. For these abuses the revolution substituted a system more conformable with justice, and better suited to our times. It substituted law in the place of arbitrary will, equality in that of privilege; delivered men from the distinctions of classes, the land from the barriers of provinces, trade from the shackles of corporations and fellowships, agriculture from feudal subjection and the oppression of tithes, property from the impediment of entails, and brought everything to the condition of one state, one system of law, one people."

Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0304335967

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The Third Revolution by Murray Bookchin Pdf

Comprehensive account of the great revolutions that swept over Europe and America.