States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China/ (Record no. 147523)

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International Standard Book Number 0521294991
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Transcribing agency CUS
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Classification number 303.64
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Personal name Skocpol, Theda
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Title States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Theda Skocpol
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1979.
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Extent xvii, 407 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
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Formatted contents note Introduction: Explaining social revolutions : alternatives to existing theories. A structural perspective ; International and world-historical contexts ; The potential autonomy of the state ; A comparative historical method ; Why France, Russia, and China? --<br/>Part I: Causes of social revolutions in France, Russia, and China. Old-regime states in crisis. Old regime France : the contradictions of Bourbon absolutism ; Manchu China : from the Celestial Empire to the fall of the imperial system ; Imperial Russia : an underdeveloped great power ; Japan and Prussia as contrasts --<br/>Agrarian structures and peasant insurrections. Peasants against seigneurs in the French Revolution ; The revolution of the Obshchinas : peasant radicalism in Russia ; Two counterpoints : the absence of peasant revolts in the English and German revolutions ; Peasant incapacity and gentry vulnerability in China --<br/>Part II: Outcomes of social revolutions in France, Russia, and China. What changed and how : a focus on state building. Political leaderships ; The role of revolutionary ideologies --<br/>The birth of a "modern state edifice" in France. A bourgeois revolution? ; The effects of the social-revolutionary crisis of 1789 ; War, the Jacobins, and Napoleon ; The new regime --<br/>The emergence of a dictatorial party-state in Russia. The effects of the social-revolutionary crisis of 1917 ; The Bolshevik struggle to rule ; The Stalinist "revolution from above" ; The new regime --<br/>The rise of a mass-mobilizing party-state in China. The social-revolutionary situation after 1911 ; The rise and decline of the urban-based Kuomintang ; The communists and the peasants ; The new regime.
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Keyword Revolutions
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Keyword France
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Keyword Soviet Union
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Keyword Politics and government
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        Central Library, Sikkim University Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section 28/08/2016 303.64 SKO/S P02170 13/07/2018 13/07/2018 General Books
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