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Offers readers the rare opportunity to witness and learn from a confrontation between two of the worlds most distinguished historians over one of the most serious subjects of our time, the history and meaning of the attack on liberal democracy by fascism and communism

François Furet, der große Historiograf der Französischen Revolution, entwirft in dieser 1996 aufgezeichneten Stellungnahme ein facettenreiches Bild des Kommunismus im 20. Jahrhundert und fragt nach der Zukunft politischer Kategorien wie Staat, Gleichheit und Demokratie. Im Frühling 1996 führte François Furet ein Gespräch mit dem Philosophen Paul Ricoeur, in dem die beiden die Leitmotive des epochalen Werkes Furets über die Geschichte des Komm...

The French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to provoke a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume presents the research of a wide range of international scholars into those questions. 58 color illustrations, 10 halftones.

La più moderna e ampia storia della Rivoluzione: una vivace narrazione condotta secondo i metodi della nuova storiografia francese. Collocata in un ampio arco storico, la Rivoluzione viene articolata nelle diverse rivoluzioni che i vari ceti sociali condussero al suo interno. E assume una nuova fisionomia: il Terrore passa in secondo piano rispetto all'Assemblea Costituente e al Direttorio, Marat e Robespierre cedono il passo ai protagonisti d...

With strokes at once broad and incisive, this book examines the many different trajectories that nations of the West have followed over the past hundred years. It features a testament to the crucial role of the historian, a reflection on how history is made and lived, and how the imagination is a catalyst for political change.

La più moderna e ampia storia della Rivoluzione: una vivace narrazione condotta secondo i metodi della nuova storiografia francese. Collocata in un ampio arco storico, la Rivoluzione viene articolata nelle diverse rivoluzioni che i vari ceti sociali condussero al suo interno. E assume una nuova fisionomia: il Terrore passa in secondo piano rispetto all'Assemblea Costituente e al Direttorio, Marat e Robespierre cedono il passo ai protagonisti d...

This volume, comprising Part I of the authors classic work Revolutionary France 1770-1880, offers a vivid narrative and radical reinterpretation of the years surrounding the momentous events of 1789 and their aftermath. During this period there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian, the second- Bonapartes authoritarian. The tension between the two characterized the period and was to shape the Republic that even...

In his major work on communism, the international bestseller "The Passing of an Illusion, " the eminent French historian Francois Furet devoted a lengthy footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte's interpretation of fascism. Nolte responded, a correspondence ensued, and the result was the remarkable exchange presented in this volume. "Fascism and Communism" offers readers the rare opportunity to witness and learn from a confrontation between tw...

Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past.

Written by one of the twentieth century's preeminent historians, "Le passe d'une illusion is a penetrating history of the ideological passions that have fueled and characterized the modern era.

The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, this central event in French history has usually been thought of in much the same terms as it was by its contemporaries. There have been many accounts of the French Revolution, and though their opinions differ, they have often been commemorative or a...

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