War and Revolution
Rethinking the Twentieth Century
Published on 2. February 2015
368 pages
978-1-78168-724-6 (ISBN)
Description
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians. It is a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or Fran¿ois Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an "illness" originating with the French Revolution.
In this vigorous riposte to those who would denigrate the history of emancipatory struggle, Losurdo captivates the reader with a tour de force account of modern revolt, providing a new perspective on the English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions.
In this vigorous riposte to those who would denigrate the history of emancipatory struggle, Losurdo captivates the reader with a tour de force account of modern revolt, providing a new perspective on the English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-724-6 (9781781687246)
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Persons
Domenico Losurdo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the author of many books in Italian, German, French and Spanish. In English he has published Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns, Heidegger and the Ideology of War, and Liberalism.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Authorial Note
- Chapter One: Two Centuries Under Discussion: Historical Revisionism
- Chapter Two: The Revolutionary Cycle and Terror: Britain, France, America
- Chapter Three: The Bolshevik October, International Civil War and the Colonial Question
- Chapter Four: 'White Civil War', 'International Civil War', the 'American Century' and the 'Second Thirty Years' War'
- Chapter Five: The Colonial Tradition, Total War and Genocide
- Chapter Six: Nostalgia for Empire: Historical Revisionism in Britain
- Chapter Seven: The Black Book, the Communist Movement and the Struggle Against the Three Major Forms of Discrimination
- Bibliography
- Index
