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020			_a9781107569843
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100	1		_aSkocpol, Theda,
245	1	0	_aStates and social revolutions : _ba comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China / _cTheda Skocpol.
250			_aCanto classics edition
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_axvii, 407 pages : _bmap ;
490	1		_aCanto classics
500			_aFirst published in 1979.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aTheda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
650		0	_aRevolutions
650		0	_aRevolutions
650		0	_aRevolutions
650		0	_aRevolutions
650		7	_aRevolutions.
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