273 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
271 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times—from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung—so often been ascetics, austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions, political as well as personal, do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his followers? Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that, beginning in the nineteenth... Read more
Preface to the Transaction Edition Preface PART ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE 1 Introduction 2 The Godlike Legislator 3 Displaced Libido and Asceticism: Theory and Function PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL STAGES 4 The Religious Stages 5 The Puritan Revolution and Cromwell 6 The French Revolution and Robespierre 7 From Legislator to Bolshevik: Robespierre to Lenin PART THREE: TWO CASE STUDIES 8 Lenin 9 Mao Tse-tung 10 Conclusion Notes Index
Biography
Bruce Mazlish
