Revolution and Counter-Revolution (Wolfson College Lectures) - Hardcover

Rice, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631178163 ISBN 13: 9780631178163

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

The events in eastern Europe in 1989 were largely unexpected. The extent of the transformation of the socities subject to the cataclysmic events of that year are still far from clear. The papers in this volume present an analysis of revolution and counter-revolution in a variety of settings. It is hoped that some of the arguments set out here may help academics and politicians come to a just evaluation of events of this nature in our own time.

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From the Back Cover:

1989 was one of the great Years of Revolution in history, and it was also the anniversary of many famous revolutions. As the world commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution, startling changes were occuring in an Eastern Europe whose political map had been drawn in the aftermath of the Second World War, the revolutionary consequences of which could hardly be imagined at its outbreak fifty years before in 1939.

Although few of us can have expected to see the revolutionary changes of 1989 in our lifetime, it remains to be seen whether history will judge all of the upheavals in Eastern Europe as 'revolutions', or whether some will be categorized in later centuries as 'revolts', 'coups', 'failed revolutions', or indeed 'counter-revolutions'.

The distinguished contributors to this volume, published in the Wolfson College Lectures series, enjoy the advantage of historical perespective regarding past revolutions and counter-revolutions. Their papers present a wide-ranging analysis both of the concepts of revolution and counter-revolution, and of particular upheavals of vastly different character.

About the Author:

Anne Rice is the author of eighteen books. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and painter Stan Rice.

Rice is Senior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631178163
• ISBN 13: 9780631178163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228