Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. François Furet: The Past of an Illusion and the Revolutionary Enigma; Furet's Passion; Revolution as a Heuristic Subject for Research in the Social Sciences; The War of 1914-18, the Suicide of the Bourgeois Republican State and the Revolutionary Phenomenon; Does Revolution lead to a Totalitarian System?; Egalitarian Passions, the New Man and Revolution; The Revolution and the Hatred of the Bourgeois; The Revolution as Configuration and Religious Ambition; The Regimes of Hope and the Despair of Revolutions.
Europe has been the chief arena of revolutionary passions since the end of the eighteenth century. The non-European world, too, has resonated with coup attempts and revolutionary turmoil. How does one begin to understand these revolutionary passions? To what extent are they influenced by European matrices? Have these revolutions also themselves
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