Revolution: An Intellectual History
By: Enzo Traverso
4.31
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions. This bo…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Six out of eight members of the first politburo of the Bolshevik Party created in November 1917 – Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Andrei Bubnov, and Grigori Sokolnikov – were killed by Stalin between 1936 and 1941; only Lenin and Stalin himself died natural deaths."-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History
"Six out of eight members of the first politburo of the Bolshevik Party created in November 1917 – Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Andrei Bubnov, and Grigori Sokolnikov – were killed by Stalin between 1936 and 1941; only Lenin and Stalin himself died natural deaths."-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History
"Six out of eight members of the first politburo of the Bolshevik Party created in November 1917 – Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Andrei Bubnov, and Grigori Sokolnikov – were killed by Stalin between 1936 and 1941; only Lenin and Stalin himself died natural deaths."-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History
"The tragedy of revolutions lies in the fatal metamorphosis that drives them from liberation to the struggle for survival, and finally to the edification of a new oppressive rule; from emancipating violence to coercive violence. The key to durably preserving their liberating potential has not yet been found, but this is not a good reason to condemn liberation itself. In any case, revolutions do not care about law, and this is both for the best and for the worst. One need not share Walter Benjamin’s messianism or Georges Sorel’s theory of myth to understand revolution as the expression of a ‘law-destroying’ violence, which is the premise for the emergence of a new sovereignty."-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History
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