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This book, first published in 1964, collects a number of essays united by the general theme of national and social revolution. They examine features of revolutionary movements, and, particularly, revolutionary leadership in an analysis of the social conditions and personal motives which impel men towards forming revolutionary elites.

This major book by one of the great political and social historians of our time is a study of the force of nationalism, a force that continues to shake our world. Reaching beyond nationalism as a doctrine, beyond the content, psychological origins, and analysis of that doctrine, the book represents and enquiry into all the important political move

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter -- I EUROPE BEFORE 1914 -- Economic and Social Divisions -- Political Systems -- Education -- Religions -- The Problem of Nationalities -- The Labour Movements -- The Second International -- Socialism and Nationalities -- II LENIN'S REVOLUTION -- Russian Socialism -- Bolsheviks and Mensheviks -- Bourgeois and Socialist Revolutions -- From March to November -- The Constituent Assembly -- The Civil War -- Causes of Bolshevik Victory -- III THE COMINTERN -- International Socialism and the War -- The German Revolution -- The Hungarian Revolution -- Communism in Eastem Europe -- The Foundation of the Comintern -- The Twenty-one Conditions -- IV COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA 1921-1928 -- The New Economic Policy -- Party and State -- The Non-Russian Nationalities -- Stalin and the Opposition -- V COMMUNISM IN EUROPE 1921-1933 -- The 5th Congress and 'Bolshevisation' -- The British General Strike -- The 6th Congress and 'Social Fascism' -- VI NATIONALISM AND REVOLUTION IN ASIA -- Social Classes -- Education -- Political Systems -- Asian Nationalist Movements -- VII COMMUNISM IN ASIA 1919-1935 -- The Moslem Lands -- Japanese Communism -- India and Java -- The Origins of Chinese Communism -- The Disaster of 1927 -- Trotski and Stalin on China -- The Rise of Mao Tse-tung -- VIII STALIN'S REVOLUTION -- The Yezhovshchina -- IX THE POPULAR FRONT -- United Front in China -- Middle East and Far East -- Latin America -- X THE NAZI-SOVIET PACT -- China -- The End of the Alliance -- XI COMMUNISM AND THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS -- The Balkans -- France and Italy -- South-East Asia -- XII STALINISM IN RUSSIA -- State and Party -- Social Classes -- The Nationalities -- The Stalinist Regime -- XIII THE STALINISATION OF EASTERN EUROPE -- Peasant and Socialist Parties.