Bruce Mazlish

The Revolutionary Ascetic

Evolution of a Political Type

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that, beginning in the nineteenth century, the needs of modernizing revolutions have produced a distinct new type of political leader, the revolutionary ascetic

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781412852982
• ISBN-10: 1412852986
• Artikelnr.: 40110956

Autorenporträt

Bruce Mazlish

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Transaction Edition Preface PART ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE 1
Introduction 2 The Godlike Legislator 3 Displaced Libido and Asceticism:
Theory and Function PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL STAGES 4 The Religious Stages
5 The Puritan Revolution and Cromwell 6 The French Revolution and
Robespierre 7 From Legislator to Bolshevik: Robespierre to Lenin PART
THREE: TWO CASE STUDIES 8 Lenin 9 Mao Tse-tung 10 Conclusion Notes Index