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Rethinking the French Revolution: Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge

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Availability:In StockContributor:George C. ComninelPublish date:1991-01-17Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9780860918905ISBN-10:860918904UPC:9780860918905Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC6YQ3HMZW
Historians generally--and Marxists in particular--have presented the revolution of 1789 as a bourgeois revolution: one which marked the ascendance of the bourgeois as a class, the defeat of a feudal aristocracy, and the triumph of capitalism. Recent revisionist accounts, however, have raised convincing arguments against the idea of the bourgeois class revolution, and the model on which it is based.

In this provocative study, George Comninel surveys existing interpretations of the French Revolution and the methodological issues these raise for historians. He argues that the weaknesses of Marxist scholarship originate in Marx's own method, which has led historians to fall back on abstract conceptions of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Comninel reasserts the principles of historical materialism that found their mature expression in Das Kapital; and outlines an interpretation which concludes that, while the revolution unified the nation and centralized the French state, it did not create a capitalist society.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9780860918905ISBN-10:860918904UPC:9780860918905Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeBook Topic:FranceSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SC6YQ3HMZW
George Comninel is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto.
Publisher: Verso

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