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    <title>Revolutions and Revolutionaries</title>
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&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;...in view of the delay in the world revolution...&quot;

&lt;br&gt;---Lenin, March 1921 (&lt;cite&gt;Works,&lt;/cite&gt; vol. 32, p. 225, quoted by
&lt;a href=&quot;kolakowski.html&quot;&gt;Kolakowski&lt;/a&gt;, vol. 2 of &lt;cite&gt;Main Currents of
Marxism&lt;/cite&gt;)

&lt;P&gt;Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side.  What more do we want?

&lt;br&gt;---Lichtenberg, &lt;cite&gt;&lt;a
href=&quot;../reviews/lichtenberg/&quot;&gt;Aphorisms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt; E 32&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;P&gt;See also
	&lt;a href=&quot;empires.html&quot;&gt;Empires and Imperialism&lt;/a&gt;;
	the &lt;a href=&quot;left.html&quot;&gt;Left&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;millenarian.html&quot;&gt;Millenarianism&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;political-elites.html&quot;&gt;Political Elites&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;revolution.html&quot;&gt;Revolution&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;Recommended:
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;arendt.html&quot;&gt;Hannah Arendt,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;cite&gt;On
Revolution&lt;/cite&gt; [But see the excellent review on the limits of this book
in Hobsbawm below]
	&lt;li&gt;Crane Brinton, &lt;cite&gt;The Anatomy of Revolution&lt;/cite&gt; [Comparative
history of the English, American, French and Russian Revolutions. &quot;Clinical&quot;
manner.  Very good on the uniformities of the actual revolutions.  Completely
inadequate on the great Soviet terror of the 1930s.  Makes the strongest
possible contrast to Arendt above.]
	&lt;li&gt;Albert Camus, &lt;cite&gt;The Rebel&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;anatole-france.html&quot;&gt;Anatole France&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;cite&gt;Les Dieux
ont soif&lt;/cite&gt; [Variously translated as &lt;cite&gt;The Gods A-Thirst,&lt;/cite&gt;
&lt;cite&gt;The Gods Will Have Blood,&lt;/cite&gt; etc.]
	&lt;li&gt;Fred Halliday, &lt;cite&gt;Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and
Fall of the Sixth Great Power&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;E. J. Hobsbawm, &lt;cite&gt;Revolutionaries&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;David S. Katz and Richard H. Popkin, &lt;cite&gt;Messianic Revolution:
Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millenium&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a
href=&quot;../reviews/messianic-revolution/&quot;&gt;Review&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;kolakowski.html&quot;&gt;Leszek Kolakowski&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;cite&gt;Main
Currents of Marxism,&lt;/cite&gt; vol. 2 and 3
	&lt;li&gt;Edward Luttwack, &lt;cite&gt;Coup d'&amp;Eacute;tat: A Practical
Handbook&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Lewis Namier, &lt;cite&gt;1848: The Revolutions of the
Intellectuals&lt;/cite&gt; [Divide through for some conservative political
commentary]
	&lt;li&gt;Stanley G. Payne, &lt;cite&gt;A History of Fascism, 1914--1945&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Simon Schama, &lt;cite&gt;Citizens: A Chronicle of the French
Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Eugen Weber, &lt;cite&gt;Varieties of Fascism: Doctrines of Revolution in
the Twentieth Century&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Edmund Wilson, &lt;cite&gt;To the Finland Station&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;To read:
	&lt;li&gt;Stanislav Andreski, &lt;cite&gt;Wars, Revolutions and
Dictatorships&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;T. G. Ash, &lt;cite&gt;The Magic Lantern&lt;/cite&gt; [Revolution of 1989]
	&lt;li&gt;Nancy Bermeo, &lt;cite&gt;Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The
Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Chamberlin, &lt;cite&gt;The Russian Revolution&lt;/cite&gt; [2 vols.]
	&lt;li&gt;Alfred Cobban, &lt;cite&gt;The Social Interpretation of the French
Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Robert Daniels, &lt;cite&gt;Year of the Heroic Guerrilla: World
Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1968&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Lyford P. Edwards, &lt;cite&gt;The Natural History of Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
[1927]
	&lt;li&gt;John Foran, &lt;cite&gt;Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World
Revolutions&lt;/cite&gt;
[&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521620090&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Reg Gadney, &lt;cite&gt;Cry Hungary!&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Robert Goldstein, &lt;cite&gt;The Russian Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Jack A. Goldstone
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Revolution and Rebellion in the Early
Modern World&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Jeff Goodwin, &lt;cite&gt;No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://cambridge.org/0521629489&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;T. Gurr, &lt;cite&gt;Why Men Rebel&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Padraic Kenney, &lt;citE&gt;A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe,
1989&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pup.princeton.edu/titles/7261.html&quot;&gt;blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Georges Lefebrve, &lt;cite&gt;The Coming of the French Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Robert Malley, &lt;cite&gt;The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism,
Revolution and the Turn to Islam&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Barrington Moore, Jr., &lt;cite&gt;Social Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Max Nomad
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Apostle of Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Political Heretics: From Plato to Mao Tse-tung&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Rebels and Renegades&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Misagh Parsa, &lt;cite&gt;States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A
Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines&lt;/cite&gt;
[&lt;a href=&quot;http://cambridge.org/0521774306&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Petrach, &lt;citE&gt;The Revolution of Cola di Rienzo&lt;/cite&gt; [ed. and
trans. Mario Emilio Cosenza]
	&lt;li&gt;Pipes, &lt;cite&gt;The Russian Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Reed, &lt;cite&gt;Ten Days that Shook the World&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Robertson, &lt;cite&gt;Revolutions of 1848, a Social History&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;George Rud&amp;eacute;, &lt;cite&gt;The French Revolution&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a
href=&quot;http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_French_Revolution.html&quot;&gt;Review&lt;/a&gt; by Danny
Yee]
	&lt;li&gt;Theda Skocpol
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Social Revolutions in the Modern World&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis
of France, Russia, and China&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Sperber, &lt;cite&gt;The European Revolutions, 1848--1851&lt;/cite&gt;
[&lt;a href=&quot;http://cambridge.org/0521547792&quot;&gt;Blurb&lt;/A&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Charles Tilly, &lt;cite&gt;From Mobilization to Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Vladimir Tismaneanu, &lt;cite&gt;The Revolutions of 1989&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Trotsky
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;The Russian Revolution&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Terrorism and Communism&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;/ul&gt;
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