Revolution and Counter-Revolution

by Peter Calvert

Revolution remains a key concept in the social sciences. After the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, a debate still rages over its causes and meaning. At the same time as, in Eastern Europe, much of what the Russian Revolution was believed to have stood for is being rejected, the Chinese leadership has reaffirmed its right to maintain "revolutionary" political orthodoxy by force. In this book Professor Calvert aims to show how revolution must by its nature be disputed. When people observe revolutions, their interpretations of what they are seeing are conditioned by changing intellectual fashion and by wishful thinking and so too are the theories derived from them. This book re-examines the place of revolution in modern social theory and at the same time reasserts the need for systematic study in the social sciences.

128 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1990

Reviews

[Amin Entezary · Rating 5 out of 5]

عنوان ترجمه فارسی: انقلاب و ضد انقلاب
ترجمه حمید قانعی. انتشارات آشیان.
مؤلف :پیتر کالورت
مولف خودش متخصص انقلابه و چند اثر دیگه هم در این حیطه نوشته که با توجه به اطلاعات من فقط همین اثر ترجمه شده ازش.
نسبتا هم جدیده 2000 نوشته شده.
کتاب در سه بخش *مشاهده* *تفسیر* *نظریه پردازی*
به مقوله انقلاب می‌پردازه. با توجه به حجم کمش که حدودا 150 صفحه ست، متن در خور توجهی هستش.
بخش اعظمی از نوشته ها راجع به انقلاب رو درون خودش داره، از الکسی دتکویل تا هانا آرنت.
ترجمه هم خوب و قابل اعتماده.

[Zainab Athumani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting ideas presented, but it fell into the academics' trap of thinking florid writing is good writing. Was incredibly dry most of the time. A good read if you're looking for critiques of theories about revolution, though.

[Navid Hosseini · Rating 4 out of 5]

wish every one even akhonds read this.