States and social revolutions : (Record no. 16221)
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| fixed length control field | 02653cam a2200277 i 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107569843 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1107569842 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.64 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Skocpol, Theda, |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | States and social revolutions : |
| Remainder of title | a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Theda Skocpol. |
| EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Canto classics edition |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge : |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication or production | 2015. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 407 pages : |
| Other physical details | map ; |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Canto classics |
| GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | First published in 1979. |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: Explaining social revolutions : alternatives to existing theories. A structural perspective ; International and world-historical contexts ; The potential autonomy of the state ; A comparative historical method ; Why France, Russia, and China? -- Part I: Causes of social revolutions in France, Russia, and China. Old-regime states in crisis. Old regime France : the contradictions of Bourbon absolutism ; Manchu China : from the Celestial Empire to the fall of the imperial system ; Imperial Russia : an underdeveloped great power ; Japan and Prussia as contrasts -- Agrarian structures and peasant insurrections. Peasants against seigneurs in the French Revolution ; The revolution of the Obshchinas : peasant radicalism in Russia ; Two counterpoints : the absence of peasant revolts in the English and German revolutions ; Peasant incapacity and gentry vulnerability in China -- Part II: Outcomes of social revolutions in France, Russia, and China. What changed and how : a focus on state building. Political leaderships ; The role of revolutionary ideologies -- The birth of a "modern state edifice" in France. A bourgeois revolution? ; The effects of the social-revolutionary crisis of 1789 ; War, the Jacobins, and Napoleon ; The new regime -- The emergence of a dictatorial party-state in Russia. The effects of the social-revolutionary crisis of 1917 ; The Bolshevik struggle to rule ; The Stalinist "revolution from above" ; The new regime -- The rise of a mass-mobilizing party-state in China. The social-revolutionary situation after 1911 ; The rise and decline of the urban-based Kuomintang ; The communists and the peasants ; The new regime. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Revolutions |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Revolutions |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Revolutions |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Revolutions |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Revolutions. |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015487566-d.html |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1606/2015487566-t.html |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Minna Study Centre | Minna Study Centre | 08/19/2025 | HM876 .S56 2015 | 0193609 | Books |
| Minna Study Centre | Minna Study Centre | 08/19/2025 | HM876 .S56 2015 | 0193608 | Books |