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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301.6333
EAN: 9780521294997
ISBN: 0521294991
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: February 28, 1979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Sales Rank: 231158
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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State structures, international forces, and class relations: 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. She argues for structural rather than voluntarist analysis, and for an emphasis on the effects of transnational and world-historical contexts upon domestic political conflicts. Above all, she maintains that states conceived as administrative and coercive organizations potentially autonomous from class controls and interests must be made central to explanations of revolutions.
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Those seeking a work that will enlighten them on the cause of state revolutions will be sorely disappointed with this book. The title takes its cue from Lenin's The State and Revolution and belies the fact that this book is nothing more than a thinly veneered attempt to justify Marxist-Leninist doctrine through picking and choosing elements of history instead of a true academic work.
Assuming the reader can stay awake, he or she will find incredible repetition of a few small arguments ... Read More
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Skocpol uses very informative, historically packed writing to demonstrate her view on the reasons behind the three revolutions. Her opinions make very much sense as is clear through her thourough analysis and tons of obvious research. She repeats her main points when things get a little heavy and confusing but does not talk more than is necessary. I recommend to anyone interested in the theory of revolutions and state systems in collapse.
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If one is interested in comparitive-historical sociology I think that it is absolutely essential that they own this book. I don't think that it is essential because one needs to read it in order to understand the whole of what is going on, but instead, because it shows some of the inherent weaknesses of the discipline. What Skocpol is doing here is writing a dissertation and following the guidelines. Even though she's drawing heavily from the Marxist tradition she makes it seem as though her research ... Read More
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Theda Skocpol seeks to explain the causes of social revolution through a structural paradigm. Her level of analysis is the state. This paradigm, holding the state as the level of analysis and concentrating on structure, is defined well by Migdal. "This is a system-dominant perspective in which structuralists see states as interchangeable to the degree that they expect them to act similarly if facing the same array of forces" (215).
Skocpol contends that external forces can lead to economic and ... Read More
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Four the past several weeks, I have been attempting to obtain copies of reviews of States & Social Revolutions that would have been written at the time of the book's initial publication. In fact, I had hoped that I could find whole books dedicated to rebutting much of the flawed argument that Skocpol puts forth in this book. I could find neither. But first, let me state my case against Skocpol.
First, there exists the problem of mid-level political theory. There is deep level theory, mid ... Read More
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