Table of Contents

1. Introduction: History and revolution: Mike Haynes (University of Wolverhampton), and Jim Wolfreys (King's College London); 2. Radicalism and revisionism in the English Revolution: Geoff Kennedy (York University, Ontario); 3. Twilight revolution: Francois Furet and the manufacturing of consensus: Jim Wolfreys (King's College London); 4. The French Revolution: revolution of rights of man and citizen: Florence Gauthier (Universite Paris VII); 5. Grey masses and Jacobins in 1917: Mike Haynes (University of Wolverhampton); 6. Lenin's mistake: the Bolsheviks and the politics of the civil war: Lars Lih (independent scholar, Montreal).; 7. Nazism and Communism. Re-readings of the twentieth century by Ernst Nolte, Francois Furet and Stephane Courtois: Enzo Traverso (Universite d'Amiens).; 8. Communism, Nazism, colonialism, assessing the analogy: Marc Ferro (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).; 9. What produces democracy? Geoff Eley (University of Michigan); 10. Revolutions: great and still and silent: Daniel Bensaid (Universite Paris VIII).

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A group of respected historians confront the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years

About the Author

Mike Haynes teaches history at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is the author of Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism; Russia: Class and Power 1917-2000; and (with Rumy Hasan) A Century of State Murder?

Jim Wolfreys is lecturer in French political history at King's College London, UK. He is co-author (with Peter Fysh) of The Politics of Racism in France.

Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) taught philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, and was the author of books on Marxism, Walter Benjamin, the French Revolution and Joan of Arc. The Marxists' Internet Archive has a list of obituaries.

Reviews

"Haynes has managed simultaneously to capture the passion for change that motivated the original Bolshevik revolution with a coherent explanation of its long-term failure." - Henry Reichman, Professor of Russian History, University of California"