-Broue enables us to feel that we are actually living through these epoch-making events.... D]o not miss this magnificent work.---Robert Brenner, UCLA
A magisterial, definitive account of the upheavals in Germany in the wake of the Russian revolution. Broue meticulously reconstitutes six decisive years, 1917-23, of social struggles in Germany. The consequences of the defeat of the German revolution had profound consequences for the world.
Pierre Broue (1926-2005) was for many years Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut d'etudes politiques in Grenoble and was...
-Broue enables us to feel that we are actually living through these epoch-making events.... D]o not miss this magnificent work.---Robert Brenner, ...
While the Great French Revolution of 1789 served as a political compass for several generations of European radicals, for socialists in particular, Gracchus Babeuf was far and away its most important leader. Babeuf and the newspaper he edited, Le Tribun du Peuple, pushed well beyond his contemporaries in their staunch defense of democracy and demands for the abolition of private property. Going so far as to call for an insurrection against the government of the Directory as it increased its repression against domestic agitators, Babeuf was eventually arrested and executed in what...
While the Great French Revolution of 1789 served as a political compass for several generations of European radicals, for socialists in particular, Gr...
