This is the first English translation of a powerful and insightful book by one of the major political theorists of this century. Much more than a history of the French Revolution, it embodies a penetrating analysis of the true nature of the Revolution and its long-range consequences for the social and political fabric of Europe. It is Ferrero's thesis that the phenomenon which we call THE French Revolution was in reality two historical events--two revolutions in succession--and he argues that, from the liberal vantage point of the twentieth century, these two events must be evaluated in quite different ways.
This is the first English translation of a powerful and insightful book by one of the major political theorists of this century. Much more than a history of the French Revolution, it embodies a penetrating analysis of the true nature of the Revolution and its long-range consequences for the social and political fabric of Europe. It is Ferrero's thesis that the phenomenon which we call THE French Revolution was in reality two historical events--two revolutions in succession--and he argues that, from the liberal vantage point of the twentieth century, these two events must be evaluated in quite different ways.