History and Revolution

Mike Haynes teaches history at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is the author of Nikolai Bukharin and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism; Russia: Class and Power 1917-2000; and (with Rumy Hasan) A Century of State Murder? Jim Wolfreys is lecturer in French political history at King's College London, UK. He is co-author (with Peter Fysh) of The Politics of Racism in France.Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010) taught philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, and was the author of books on Marxism, Walter Benjamin, the French Revolution and Joan of Arc. The Marxists' Internet Archive has a list of obituaries.

• 1. Introduction: History and revolution: Mike Haynes (University of Wolverhampton), and Jim Wolfreys (King's College London); 2. Radicalism and revisionism in the English Revolution: Geoff Kennedy (York University, Ontario); 3. Twilight revolution: Francois Furet and the manufacturing of consensus: Jim Wolfreys (King's College London); 4. The French Revolution: revolution of rights of man and citizen: Florence Gauthier (Universite Paris VII); 5. Grey masses and Jacobins in 1917: Mike Haynes (University of Wolverhampton); 6. Lenin's mistake: the Bolsheviks and the politics of the civil war: Lars Lih (independent scholar, Montreal).; 7. Nazism and Communism. Re-readings of the twentieth century by Ernst Nolte, Francois Furet and Stephane Courtois: Enzo Traverso (Universite d'Amiens).; 8. Communism, Nazism, colonialism, assessing the analogy: Marc Ferro (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).; 9. What produces democracy? Geoff Eley (University of Michigan); 10. Revolutions: great and still and silent: Daniel Bensaid (Universite Paris VIII).

"Haynes has managed simultaneously to capture the passion for change that motivated the original Bolshevik revolution with a coherent explanation of its long-term failure." - Henry Reichman, Professor of Russian History, University of California"