The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution Of A Political Type

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 9781138538245 1138538248 0 Revolutionaries NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=8RF5tAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Bruce Mazlish
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Sep 20, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 274 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138538248
• • ISBN-13: 9781138538245