Fire in the minds of men : origins of the revolutionary faith /
Billington, James H.
Fire in the minds of men : origins of the revolutionary faith / James H. Billington. - New York : Basic Books, INC., Publishers 1980 - viii, 677 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book I: Foundations of the revolutionary faith: the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Incarnation -- A locus of legitimacy -- The objects of belief -- The occult origins of organization. Book II: The dominance of the national revolutionaries: the mid-nineteenth century -- The conspiratorial constitutionalists (1815-25) -- National vs. social revolution (1830-48) -- The evolutionary alternative -- Prophecy: the emergence of an intelligentsia -- The early church (the 1840s) -- Schism: Marx vs. Proudhon -- The magic medium: journalism -- The waning of revolutionary nationalism. Book III: The rise of the social revolutionaries: the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The machine: German social democracy -- The bomb: Russian violence -- Revolutionary syndicalism -- The path to power: Lenin -- The role of women -- Epilogue: Beyond Europe.
"This book seeks to trace the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of our time: ... the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority" (Introduction), as demonstrated in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when two ideals, "equality and fraternity--split apart and became the founding tenets of two separate revolutionary traditions" (Jacket).
046502405X 9780465024056 0465024076 9780465024070
79002750
Revolutions--History--19th century.
Revolutionaries--History--19th century.
HM283 / .B54
ARCH YNDC 909.81 B598F
323.272(100)"17/19"
Fire in the minds of men : origins of the revolutionary faith / James H. Billington. - New York : Basic Books, INC., Publishers 1980 - viii, 677 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book I: Foundations of the revolutionary faith: the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Incarnation -- A locus of legitimacy -- The objects of belief -- The occult origins of organization. Book II: The dominance of the national revolutionaries: the mid-nineteenth century -- The conspiratorial constitutionalists (1815-25) -- National vs. social revolution (1830-48) -- The evolutionary alternative -- Prophecy: the emergence of an intelligentsia -- The early church (the 1840s) -- Schism: Marx vs. Proudhon -- The magic medium: journalism -- The waning of revolutionary nationalism. Book III: The rise of the social revolutionaries: the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The machine: German social democracy -- The bomb: Russian violence -- Revolutionary syndicalism -- The path to power: Lenin -- The role of women -- Epilogue: Beyond Europe.
"This book seeks to trace the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of our time: ... the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority" (Introduction), as demonstrated in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when two ideals, "equality and fraternity--split apart and became the founding tenets of two separate revolutionary traditions" (Jacket).
046502405X 9780465024056 0465024076 9780465024070
79002750
Revolutions--History--19th century.
Revolutionaries--History--19th century.
HM283 / .B54
ARCH YNDC 909.81 B598F
323.272(100)"17/19"