About the book
\"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it.\"
–China Miéville, author of October
A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions
This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of \"dialectical images\": Marx's \"locomotives of history,\" Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others.
It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs.
And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.
Editions of Revolution
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781839763335
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781839763595
- EBook
- ISBN 9781839763618
Read an Excerpt
\"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it.\"
–China Miéville, author of October
A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions
This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of \"dialectical images\": Marx's \"locomotives of history,\" Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others.
It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs.
And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.
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What is Revolution about?
\"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it.\"
–China Miéville, author of October
A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions
This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of \"dialectical images\": Marx's \"locomotives of history,\" Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others.
It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs.
And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Revolution?
History and Archaeology > History > History: specific events and topics > Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
Where can I read a sample of Revolution?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781839763335
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Revolution?
Enzo Traverso
Who is the Publisher of the book Revolution?
Verso Books
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Revolution is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781839763335) and paperback(ISBN 9781839763595) and ebook(ISBN 9781839763618)
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