The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefeb...
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"—a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution.
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Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959) was one of the most important twentieth-century historians of the French Revolution. His books include The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France (Princeton).
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"The patricians began the Revolution," wrote Chateaubriand; "the plebeians finished it." The first act of the Revolution, in 1788, consisted in a triumph of the aristocracy, which, taking advantage of the government crisis, hoped to reassert itself and win back the political authority of which the Capetian dynasty had despoiled it. But, after having paralyzed the royal power which upheld its own social preeminence, the aristocracy opened the way to the bourgeois revolution, then to the popular revolution in the cities and finally to the revolution of the peasants--and found itself buried under the ruins of the Old Regime. (查看原文)
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0 有用 贫民窟主-土 2015-10-22 11:15:47
为了写作业而看。一本薄册子，却把大革命的四张面具、四层内涵、四种指向分析得头头是道，结合《旧制度与大革命》一起有助于理清大革命前法国社会状况。不过话说回来，这么浓厚的马克思主义阶级斗争色彩确实突出了农民的作用，和托克维尔似乎是两种话语。
0 有用 Lumières 2017-04-19 19:09:28
想当年马克思史学观还是很流行的