You say you want a revolution?: radical idealism and its tragic consequences

Revolution as tragedy -- Incompetence, chaos, and extremism : how more moderate forces lost control in France, Russia, Iran, and Germany -- Reaction, war, invasion, and revolutionary terror -- The tyranny of idealistic certitude and imagined utopias -- Revolutions betrayed : autocratic corruption an...

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Main Author: Chirot, Daniel 1942- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton Oxford Princeton University Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
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