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Les révolutions ne se prêtent pas aux récits linéaires. Elles sont de véritables séismes qui, en renversant l'ordre établi, renouvellent les horizons d'attente et font advenir des idées, des imaginaires et des canons esthétiques nouveaux. Pour en mesurer les forces et les puissances de transformation, mais aussi les tensions et les contradictions, Enzo Traverso compose une constellation d'" images dialectiques ", où se télescopent les " locomotives de l'histoire " de Marx et le " frein d'urgence " de Walter Benjamin, les corps sexuellement libérés d'Alexandra Kollontaï et les corps disciplinés pour bâtir la " société nouvelle ", la création d'images et de symboles (la barricade, le drapeau rouge, les chansons et rituels...) et la furie iconoclaste. Au croisement de l'histoire intellectuelle, de l'histoire visuelle et de la théorie politique, ce livre montre que l'idée de révolution offre une clé d'intelligibilité de la modernité, jusqu'à notre présent, où elle continue d'informer souterrainement notre rapport au futur et au possible. " Pour celles et ceux qui aspirent à façonner un autre ordre des choses, le récit d'Enzo Traverso est essentiel. Pour celles et ceux qui veulent réfléchir à ce qui anime les révolutions ou en fait des naufrages, cet ouvrage rare parcourt le globe et les bibliothèques, s'intéressant à Phnom Penh et La Havane, et pas seulement à Paris et Moscou, et pensant avec Weber, Arendt, Fanon et Constant, et pas seulement avec Trotski, Lénine et Mao. " Wendy Brown, professeure de sciences politiques à l'université de Berkeley.

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"This book poses the question of why revolutions--from the French Revolution through the Russian and more recent revolutions--tend to produce tragic outcomes. As the author puts it: 'I have become intrigued with the idea of writing a short book on why so many revolutions turn into bloody catastrophes. Though a huge amount has obviously been written about revolutions, I think a good short review of why they so often disappoint so badly could find a good audience. Of course the planned book would not please those with different views. I want to insist on the contingent nature of what happened rather than seeing revolutions in a Marxist way as necessary and inevitable steps toward world historical progress. I also believe that key individuals make a big difference, so the purely structural analyses that predominate in sociology and political science lack an important element. Then, too, the age of revolutions is far from over, and while I don't really think that history repeats itself, there are recurrent patterns to watch out for.' Chirot proceeds by exploring the combination of extremism and incompetence that characterize most revolutionary movements, the effects of counter-revolutionary forces in complications post-revolutionary regimes, the often tyrannical application of idealistic norms on societies experiencing revolutionary change, and the corruption and oppression that often characterize post-revolutionary regimes. He plans to end the book with a chapter on what can be learned from his study with respect to future revolutionary movement"--

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Common to the articles in this volume is the question of the extent to which social status and participation in a revolt are related. Do revolts take different forms when different social classes are involved? The social status is twofold, when looking at the insurgents as a whole and their leaders. The articles also take a look at whether revolts could lead to the formation of new elites and whether the uprisings enable lasting social advancement. The wide time frame also enables diachronic comparisons. With contributions by: Olivia Carpi, Vincent Challet, Jean-Claude Cheynet, Philippe Depreux, Kai-Henrik Günther, Uwe Israel, François Martin, Steffen Patzold, Jörg Peltzer, Bruno Pottier, Marianne Sághy, Alain Saint-Denis, Werner Troßbach, Hanna Vollrath, Claudia Zey.

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Un voyage en Transsibérien ? Non, une méditation personnelle sur les deux révolutions du XXe siècle, les deux grandes victoires qui démontrèrent que l'impossible peut parfois survenir. Des Thèses d'avril de Lénine (1917) à la "Décision en 16 points" du Parti communiste chinois (1966), Badiou montre combien était intelligente et généreuse la pensée qui sous-tendait l'action révolutionnaire. Si pour finir ces deux révolutions ont échoué, victimes de la coalition disparate des cadres du parti, de l'armée comme toujours conservatrice et de l'esprit petit-bourgeois, leur histoire est pleine d'enseignements pour tous ceux qui croient en l'avenir du communisme.

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As capitalism triumphs on the ruins of utopias and faith in progress fades, revolts are breaking out everywhere. From London to Hong Kong and from Buenos Aires to Beirut, protests flare up, in some cases spreading like wildfire, in other cases petering out and reigniting elsewhere. Not even the pandemic has been able to stop them: as many were reflecting on the loss of public space, the fuse of a fresh explosion was lit in Minneapolis with the brutal murder of George Floyd. We are living in an age of revolt. But what is revolt? It would be a mistake to think of it as simply an explosion of anger, a spontaneous and irrational outburst, as it is often portrayed in the media. Exploding anger is not a bolt from the blue but a symptom of a social order in which the sovereignty of the state has imposed itself as the sole condition of order. Revolt challenges the sovereignty of the state, whether it is democratic or despotic, exposing the violence that underpins it. Revolt upsets the agenda of power, interrupts time, throws history into disarray. The time of revolt, discontinuous and intermittent, is also a revolt of time, an anarchic transition to a space of time that disengages itself from the architecture of politics. This brilliant reflection on the nature and significance of revolt will be of interest to students of politics and philosophy and to anyone concerned with the key questions of politics today.

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