The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions

Minor rubbing. A small spot to front cover. VG. Textual illustrations. Revolutionary Violence Princeton University Press Princeton (2000) orig.cloth 24x15cm, xvii,716 pp Contents: Conceptual Signposts: Revolution; Counterrevolution; Violence; Terror; Vengeance; Religion: The Crescendo of Violence: The Return of Vengeance: Terror in France, 1789-95; In the Eye of a "Time of Troubles": Terror in Russia, 1917-21; Metropolitan Condescension and Rural Distrust: Peasant War in France: The Vendee; Peasant War in Russia: Ukraine and Tambov; The Sacred Contested: Engaging the Gallican Church and the Vatican;Engaging the Russian Orthodox Church; Perils of Emancipation: Protestants and Jews in the Revolutionary Whirlwind; A World Unhinged: Externalization of the French Revolution: The Napoleonic Wars; Internalization of the Russian Revolution: Terror in One Country. ["In his sweeping yet close comparison of the world's two transnational revolutions, Mayer follows their unfolding--from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Bolshevik Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Masses the escalation of the initial violence into the reign of terror of 1793-95 and of 1918-21 the dismemberment of the hegemonic churches and religion of both societies the "externalization" of the terror through the Napoleonic wars and its "internalization" in Soviet Russia in the form of Stalin's " Terror in One Country." Making critical use of theory, old and new, Mayer breaks through unexamined assumptions and prevailing debates about the attributes of these particular revolutions to raise broader and more disturbing questions about the nature of revolutionary violence attending new foundations." - Publisher's description]