Ebook: Los estados y las revoluciones sociales

Estructuras estatales, fuerzas internacionales y relaciones de clase: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. From France in the 1790s to Vietnam in the 1970s, social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference for analyzing the causes, the conflicts, and the outcomes of such revolutions. And it develops in depth a rigorous, comparative historical analysis of three major cases: the French Revolution of 1787 through the early 1800s, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the 1960s. Believing that existing theories of revolution, both Marxist and non-Marxist, are inadequate to explain the actual historical patterns of revolutions, the author urges us to adopt fresh perspectives. Por encima de todo, sostiene que los estados concebidos como organizaciones administrativas y coercitivas potencialmente autónomas de los controles e intereses de clase deben ocupar un lugar central en las explicaciones de las revoluciones.