“An impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy.” —Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After Virtue Once of central importa

Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the "bourgeois revolution" has recently come in for sustained criticism from b

In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view tha

Lenin's most important and controversial theoretical text Lenin’s booklet The State and Revolution struck the world of Marxist theory like a lightning bolt. W

Fifteen contributors examine the interpretative value of ideas of revolution for explaining historical development within their own speciality. They assess the