TY  - BOOK
AU  - Billington,James H.
TI  - Fire in the minds of men : : origins of the revolutionary faith 
SN  - 046502405X
AV  - HM283 .B54
U1  - ARCH YNDC 909.81 B598F  
PY  - 1980///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, INC., Publishers 
KW  - Revolutions
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Revolutionaries
N1  - 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
N2  - "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)
ER  -