The furies : violence and terror in the French and Russian Revolutions / Arno J. Mayer.

  • Mayer, Arno J
Date:
2000
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Chichester, West Sussex : Princeton University Press, 2000.

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xvii, 716 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 25 cm

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Published by Princeton University Press.
This book has been composed in Galliard.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper).
Printed in the United States of America.

Contents

Conceptual Signposts -- Crescendo of Violence -- Metropolitan Condescension and Rural Distrust -- The Sacred Contested -- A World Unhinged.
Revolution -- Counterrevolution -- Violence -- Terror -- Vengeance -- Religion -- The Return of Vengeance: Terror in France, 1789–95 -- In the Eye of a “Time of Troubles?”: Terror in Russia, 1917–21 -- Peasant War in France: The Vendée -- Peasant War in Russia: Ukraine and Tambov -- Engaging the Gallican Church and the Vatican -- Engaging the Russian Orthodox Church -- Perils of Emancipation: Protestants and Jews in the Revolutionary Whirlwind -- Externalization of the French Revolution: The Napoleonic Wars -- Internalization of the Russian Revolution: Terror in One Country.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

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  • 0691048975
  • 9780691090153