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The object of this conference will be to analyze the formation, the stages, and the characteristics of revolutionary culture in Western history since the seventeenth century, through successive examinations of the English, American, French, and Russian Revolutions, finishing by a debate over the implications of the downfall of Soviet-type regimes. In each discussion of a particular event, we would like to ask what the idea of revolution meant in those particular circumstances, and in doing so we would like to keep in mind a comparative perspective in which each of these great modern revolutions is seen in light of the others. We hope to collect the papers given at the conference into what we hope will be a very exciting book.
The Ancient and Modern Meanings of Revolution
Nathan Tarcov
From Reason to Revolution: the Modern Revolutionary Experience
Pierre Hassner
Revolutionary Thought of 17th & 18th Century England
Jonathan Clark
The First Modern Revolution(s)
Mark Kishlansky
How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution?
Paul Rahe
The Success of the American Revolution
Gordon Wood
Revolutionizing Revolution
Keith Baker
The French Idea of Revolution
François Furet
Lenin and the Cult of Revolution
Abraham Ascher
Red October: the Revolution to End All Revolutions
Martin Malia
Was the Collapse of Communism a Modern Revolution?
Francis Fukuyama
The End of the Revolutionary Age?
Charles Fairbanks
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