A History of Revolution
The LRB Podcast
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Revolution as an Interpretive Key to Modern History?
Your subject is revolution for better or worse. You say that your aim is to rehabilitate the concept of revolution as an interpretive key to modern history against historians like Francois Furet. Yet you hardly deny the human costs of revolution and the injustices that it can generate in correcting injustice. Is it the dream and aspiration, the history of collective struggle or the concrete achievement? Well, I don't think that it's so productive to sketch a kind of typology of good or bad revolutions.
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