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    War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century

by Domenico Losurdo
<http://www.versobooks.com/authors/1516-domenico-losurdo>Translated
by Gregory Elliott <http://www.versobooks.com/authors/43-gregory-elliott>
Author of the acclaimed /Liberalism: A Counter-History/ dissects the
revisionist attempts to expunge or criminalize revolutions
/War and Revolution/ identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend
among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in
recent years. It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of
authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust
to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or François Furet, who links
the Stalinist purges to an “illness” originating with the French Revolution.

The intention of these revisionists is to eradicate the revolutionary
tradition. Their true motives have little to do with the quest for a
greater understanding of the past, but lie in the climate of the present
day and the ideological needs of the political classes, as is most
clearly seen now in the work of the Anglophone imperial revivalists Paul
Johnson and Niall Ferguson.

In this vigorous riposte to those who would denigrate the history of
emancipatory struggle, Losurdo captivates the reader with a tour de
force account of modern revolt, providing a new perspective on the
English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions.

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ISBN: 9781781686164

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    Reviews

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    “A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions, surveying
    over three centuries with magisterial command of the sources.”

    – /Financial Times (in priase of /Liberalism: A Counter-History/)/

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    “Stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is
    much too self-righteously invoked.”

    – Pankaj Mishra (in priase of /Liberalism: A
    Counter-History/), /Guardian/

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    “A book of wide reference and real erudition.”

    – /Times Literary Supplement (in priase of /Liberalism: A
    Counter-History/)/

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    “The book is a historically grounded, very accessible critique of
    liberalism, complementing a growing literature critical of liberalism.”

    – /Choice (in priase of /Liberalism: A Counter-History/)/


    Other books byDomenico Losurdo
    <http://www.versobooks.com/authors/1516-domenico-losurdo>Translated
    byGregory Elliott <http://www.versobooks.com/authors/43-gregory-elliott>

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    by Domenico Losurdo
    <http://www.versobooks.com/authors/1516-domenico-losurdo>
    “A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions.”
    – /Financial Times/

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