The Spectre of Babeuf - Hardcover

Birchall, Ian H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312173652 ISBN 13: 9780312173654

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

Synopsis

This study of Babeuf as a political thinker, based on an analysis of his extensive writings, and on scholarship unavailable in English, shows him to be a major precursor of the modern revolutionary socialist tradition. The first part traces Babeuf's political evolution in the context of the French Revolution; the second examines his changing reputation among subsequent historians. The final section assesses the originality of his thought, showing him to be neither a Jacobin nor a Utopian.

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Review:

"The story of the French Revolution has been the subject of countless books and articles, but the story of Gracchus Babeuf has rarely been told in the English language, so this reprint of Ian Birchall's 1997 book looking at the French revolutionary is enormously welcome...as Ian Birchall's excellent book shows us, we still have much to learn from the revolutionary life of Gracchus Babeuf."
--Resolute Reader

About the Author:

Ian Birchall is a socialist historian and translator based in London. His books include Sartre Against Stalinism, A Rebel's Guide to Lenin, and Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0312173652
• ISBN 13: 9780312173654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214