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The Revolutionary Ascetic

The Revolutionary Ascetic

Bruce Mazlish

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2017
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9781138538245

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Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution, Mazlish shows, in fascinating personality sketches, how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the 19th and 20th centuries was put to the service of a new kind of 'total' modernizing revolution in Russia, China, and elsewhere

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