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

The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolution © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156920608X357792 Historical Materialism 16 (2008) 205–232 www.brill.nl/hima Review Articles Th e Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolution , Arno J. Mayer, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. For a couple of decades now, the wind of restoration has been blowing through the historiography of revolutions. Th e celebrations of the bicentennial of 1789 consecrated the hegemony of the school created by the French historian François Furet. Rejecting the notion of ‘bourgeois revolution’, the latter had found his inspiration in two conservative forerunners. First, and above all, in Tocqueville, who helped him to defi ne the French Revolution as an avoidable and unlucky explosion of violence: ‘even if it had not taken place, the old social structure would none the less have been shattered everywhere, here sooner, there later. Th e only diff erence would have been that instead of collapsing with such brutal suddenness it would have crumbled bit by bit’. 1 Th en in Auguste Cochin, who, a century ago, had condemned the French Revolution as a product of revolutionary ideology, fanaticism and passion. 2 Th e bicentennial had not yet ended when the fall of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

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

Historical Materialism , Volume 16 (4): 205 – Jan 1, 2008

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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1465-4466
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10.1163/156920608X357792
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156920608X357792 Historical Materialism 16 (2008) 205–232 www.brill.nl/hima Review Articles Th e Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolution , Arno J. Mayer, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. For a couple of decades now, the wind of restoration has been blowing through the historiography of revolutions. Th e celebrations of the bicentennial of 1789 consecrated the hegemony of the school created by the French historian François Furet. Rejecting the notion of ‘bourgeois revolution’, the latter had found his inspiration in two conservative forerunners. First, and above all, in Tocqueville, who helped him to defi ne the French Revolution as an avoidable and unlucky explosion of violence: ‘even if it had not taken place, the old social structure would none the less have been shattered everywhere, here sooner, there later. Th e only diff erence would have been that instead of collapsing with such brutal suddenness it would have crumbled bit by bit’. 1 Th en in Auguste Cochin, who, a century ago, had condemned the French Revolution as a product of revolutionary ideology, fanaticism and passion. 2 Th e bicentennial had not yet ended when the fall of the

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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