Revolutionary ascetic, the: evolution of a political type
Auteur :
Mazlish, Bruce
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781138538245
Date de publication :
20 sept. 2017
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution, Mazlish shows, in fascinating personality sketches, how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the 19th and 20th centuries was put to the service of a new kind of "total" modernizing revolution in Russia, China, and elsewhere