Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of…
"This book examines four dramatic periods that have shaped not only Ukrainian, but also Soviet and Russian history over the last hundred years: the revolutionary struggles of 1917-20, Stalin's "second" revolution of 1928-33, the mobilization of revolutionary nationalists during …
The Egyptian Revolution that began on 25 January 2011 immediately gave rise to a wave of popular political and social expression in the form of graffiti and street art, phenomena that were almost unknown in the country under the old regime. Mia Gröndahl, the photographer of Gaza…
Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen M. Walt explains why this is so and suggests how the risk of conflicts brought on by domestic upheaval might be reduced in the futur…
For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the defining forms of aesthetic…
"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his l…
An insightful and comprehensive compilation of the year's events, this record offers in-the-moment comment and analysis as well as informed reflection on the 2011 African uprisings. While the tumultuous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have seized the attention of media an…
A leading authority on the Soviet Union examines the two revolutions of February and October 1917 which serve as a symbol to socialists and established communism in Russia.
This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's "17 February Revolution" by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, wheter geographical (e.g. Beni Walid) or political (e.g. the Muslim Brother…
The words 'rebellion' and 'revolution' have gained renewed prominence in the vocabulary of world politics and so has the question of justifiable armed 'resistance'. In this book Christopher J. Finlay extends just war theory to provide a rigorous and systematic account of the rig…
Explores the origins of Egyptian 'modern men' who became a new middle-class elite in colonial-era Egypt, drafted and carried out the state's modernization policies, made and consumed modern forms of politics and national culture, and assumed key roles in the state both before an…
"Dans cet ouvrage, Michèle Riot-Sarcey fait revivre les idées de liberté surgies au cours des expériences ouvrières et des révolutions sociales du XIXe siècle français. Des idées largement oubliées depuis : minoritaires et utopiques, incomprises à leur époque, elles ont été malt…
