History and revolution: refuting revisionism

Ranging from an exploration of the English, French and Russian revolutions and their treatment by revisionist historiography, to the debates and themes arising from attempts to downplay revolution's role in history, this work also engages with several prominent revisionist historians, including Orlando Figes, Conrad Russell and Simon Schama.

Ranging from an exploration of the English, French and Russian revolutions and their treatment by revisionist historiography, to the debates and themes arising from attempts to downplay revolution's role in history, this work also engages with several prominent revisionist historians, including Orlando Figes, Conrad Russell and Simon Schama.

1. Introduction: History and revolution: Mike Haynes (University of Wolverhampton), and Jim Wolfreys (King's College London); 2. Radicalism and revisionism in the English Revolution: Geoff Kennedy (York University, Ontario 3. Twilight revolution: Francois Furet and the manufacturing of consensus: Ji Wolfreys (King's College London); 4. The French Revolution: revolution of rights of man and citizen: Florence Gauthier (Universite Paris VII); 5. Grey masses and Jacobins in 1917: Mike Haynes (University of Wolverhampton); 6. Lenin's mistake: the Bolsheviks and the politics of the civil war: Lars Lih (independent scholar, Montreal).; 7. Nazism and Communism. Re-readings of the twentieth century by Ernst Nolte, Francois Furet and Stephane Courtois: Enzo Traverso (Universite d'Amiens).; 8. Communism, Nazism, colonialism, assessing the analogy: Marc Ferro (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).; 9. What produces democracy? Geoff Eley (University of Michigan); 10. Revolutions: great and still and silent: Daniel Bensaid (Universite Paris VIII).