Social Revolutions in the Modern World,9780521409384

Social Revolutions in the Modern World

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ISBN13: 9780521409384
ISBN10: 0521409381
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-09-30
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning States and Social Revolutions (CUP, 1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some countries, but not in others that seem similar? Skocpol shows how she and other scholars have used ideas about states and societies to identify the particular types of regimes that are susceptible to the growth of revolutionary movements and vulnerable to transfers of state power to revolutionary challengers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
INTRODUCTION Explaining social revolutions: First and further thoughts 3(22)
I DOING MACROSCOPIC SOCIAL SCIENCE 25(74)
1 A critical review of Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
25(30)
2 Wallerstein's world capitalist system: A theoretical and historical critique
55(17)
3 The uses of comparative history in macrosocial inquiry
72(27)
Margaret Somers
II MAKING SENSE OF THE GREAT REVOLUTIONS 99(70)
4 Explaining revolutions: In quest of a social-structural approach
99(21)
5 Revolutions and the world-historical development of capitalism
120(13)
Ellen Kay Trimberger
6 France, Russia, China: A structural analysis of social revolutions
133(36)
III A DIALOGUE ABOUT CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY IN REVOLUTIONS 169(44)
7 Ideologies and social revolutions: Reflections on the French case
169(30)
William H. Sewell, Jr.
8 Cultural idioms and political ideologies in the revolutionary reconstruction of state power: A rejoinder to Sewell
199(14)
IV FROM CLASSICAL TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS 213(88)
9 What makes peasants revolutionary?
213(27)
10 Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian Revolution
240(19)
11 Explaining revolutions in the contemporary Third World
259(20)
Jeff Goodwin
12 Social revolutions and mass military mobilization
279(22)
CONCLUSION Reflections on recent scholarship about social revolutions and how to study them 301(44)
Index 345

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