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Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 by Albert Soboul (1977, Trade Paperback)

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Authors : Soboul, Albert. A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799. Title : A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799. Publisher : University of California Press.

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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520034198

ISBN-139780520034198

eBay Product ID (ePID)598220

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Book TitleShort History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEurope / France, Europe / General

Publication Year1977

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorAlbert Soboul

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length8 in

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Dewey Edition18

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Dewey Decimal944.04

Table Of ContentTranslator's Preface Chronology of Principal Events Introduction: Causes and Nature of the French Revolution Chapter I. 1789: Revolution or Compromise? (1789-1792) Chapter II. 1793: Bourgeois Republic or Popular Democracy? (1792-1795) Chapter III. 1795: Liberalism or Dictatorship? (1795-1799) Conclusion: The French Revolution and the History of the Contemporary World Selected Bibliography

SynopsisAlbert Soboul has held the Chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbone since 1967, and is probably the leading Marxist scholar working in that field today. The book translated here should be regarded more as a synopsis of Professor Soboul's interpretation of the Revolution than as a detailed account of the course of events; it is an essay in analysis rather than a narrative. In it the author argues that the French Revolution can only be understood in terms of class struggle, and that any attempt to diminish the significance of class conflict as its motive force obscures the meaning of the events of the Revolution and rends them ultimately incomprehensible. The course of the Revolution and its final outcome, which was clear by the time Napoleon seized power in 1799, were the products of a complex class struggle enacted simultaneously on many levels, leading finally to the triumph of the bourgeoisie, the defeat of the aristocracy, and the fragmentation and collapse of the popular forces, who as the allies of the bourgeoisie had played a vital part in securing its victory. Professor Soboul shows that although the Revolution was caused initially by specific factors peculiar to the structure of French society at the end of the Old Regime, it came to constitute the definitive type of the bourgeois revolution and opened the way for the ascendary of industrial capitalism in the next century, not merely in France, but in the rest of Europe and the world at large.