The Third Revolution

by Harold Perkin, Harold Perkin

This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and if Anglo-American capitalism is likely to go the same way.

272 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 1996

About the author

A specialist in English social history, Harold James Perkin was a Lecturer in Social History at the University of Manchester (1951–1965), then a Senior Lecturer (1965–1967), a Professor (1967–1984) in Social History and Director of the Centre for Social History (1974–84) at the University of Lancaster, and an Emeritus Professor of History at Northwestern University, Illinois (1985–1997).