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A History of Revolution

The LRB Podcast

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Is Dialectical Images Important to the History of Revolutions?

The book touches on a variety of revolutionary moments from 1789 to the mid 20th century. It's not chronological, rather it's organized around what Benjamin called dialectical images. They include locomotive trains which you just mentioned,. bodies, statues, flags, posters, individual lives.

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