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Revolutionaries

By: Eric Hobsbawm

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Paperback | 1 September 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Back in print, groundbreaking essays from "the best known living historian in the world" (The Times, London). "One of the few genuinely great historians of our century" according to the New Republic, Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark booksincluding The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, Bandits, and The Age of Extremesthat has both set the standard for radical scholarship and influenced historical thinking across the political spectrum. Now back in print after thirty years, Revolutionaries is vintage Hobsbawm, written masterfully amid one of the century's most intense periods of political and social upheaval, putting those events in historical context. Few observers were as astute as Hobsbawm at probing, criticizing, and clarifying radical movements, whether in Beijing or Berkeley. Ranging from historical investigations into communism to contemporary appraisals of revolutionary movements and meditations on Marxism, Hobsbawm's commentaries are essential guides to ideas and people that changed the face of the twentieth century. Hobsbawm's essays retain a freshness that speaks both to his brilliance as a writer and scholar, as well as to the perennial importance of his subjects. At a time when the very concept of revolution has been largely discredited, these essays remind us of the enduring importance of radical investigations intoand solutions tosociety's persistent inequalities and injustices.

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"An unusually rewarding book; almost every item bears witness to Professor Hobsbawm's sharp intelligence and felicitous style." --TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT "A highly readable, lucid and well written book from which any student of contemporary revolutions can derive a great deal of profit." --NEW STATESMAN

"For sheer intelligence, Hobsbawm has no superior in the historical profession." --THE GUARDIAN

"What distinguishes Hobsbawm is his ability to describe, make sense of, and provoke debate about the changing nature of the modern world as a whole." --THE WASHINGTON POST "An unusually rewarding book; almost every item bears witness to Professor Hobsbawm s sharp intelligence and felicitous style." "TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT" "A highly readable, lucid and well written book from which any student of contemporary revolutions can derive a great deal of profit." "NEW STATESMAN" "For sheer intelligence, Hobsbawm has no superior in the historical profession." "THE GUARDIAN" "What distinguishes Hobsbawm is his ability to describe, make sense of, and provoke debate about the changing nature of the modern world as a whole." "THE WASHINGTON POST" "

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Politics & Government Political Ideologies & Movements Far-Left Political Ideologies & Movements General & World History

Preface	p. v
Preface to The New Press Edition	p. viii
Communists
Problems of Communist History	p. 3
Radicalism and Revolution in Britain	p. 12
French Communism	p. 18
Intellectuals and Communism	p. 28
The Dark Years of Italian Communism	p. 36
Confronting Defeat: The German Communist Party	p. 50
Anarchists
Bolshevism and the Anarchists	p. 67
The Spanish Background	p. 84
Reflections on Anarchism	p. 97
Marxism
Karl Marx and the British Labour Movement	p. 111
The Dialogue on Marxism	p. 129
Lenin and the 'Aristocracy of Labour'	p. 144
Revisionism	p. 155
The Principle of Hope	p. 162
The Structure of Capital	p. 170
Karl Korsch	p. 183
Soldiers and Guerrillas
Vietnam and the Dynamics of Guerrilla War	p. 195
Civilians versus Military in Twentieth-Century Politics	p. 212
Coup d'Etat	p. 230
Insurrectionaries and Revolution
Hannah Arendt on Revolution	p. 239
The Rules of Violence	p. 248
Revolution and Sex	p. 256
Cities and Insurrections	p. 261
May 1968	p. 279
Intellectuals and the Class Struggle	p. 292
Index	p. 319
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