Revolutions 1789–1917

by Allan Todd, David Smith (Editor), Richard Brown (Editor)

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. Allan Todd provides a lucid exploration of the main features of revolutions: the economic, social, political and ideological developments prior to revolution, and the roles and actions of crowds, parties, women and counter-revolutionaries. Particular attention is paid to the French Revolution of 1789, the 1848 Revolutions, the 1871 Paris Commune and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Revolutions contains a selection of primary and secondary sources.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics

148 pages, Paperback

First published March 19, 1998

Reviews

[Donmakles · Rating 2 out of 5]

I finally finished reading this one. I still have the same opinion as previously posted:

The author was right about the United States as the most anti-revolutionary state in existence. Despite it's revolutionary origin, the United States is a police state pretending to be "not" a police state.

Although, the author tries to change or limit his definition of what is a revolution to socialist revolutions only. It's like one of those "yOu'Re nOt OnE oF uS uNlEsS yOu'Re a MeMbEr oF tHe pArTy" crap.

Overall, the book is about the different forms of socialist revolutions from its primitive form in the French Revolution to it's extremist form in the Bolsheviks Revolution.