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THE ANATOMY OF REVOLUTION, by Crane Brinton; Jonathan Cape. English price, 35/-., "THIS is an examination by a professor of history in the United States of four revolutions — English, American, French and Russian-to find out what are the causes of revolutions, what kind of men carry them out, and what they have in common (or, to use the author’s jargon, what are the sociological uniformities and the "prodromal symptoms’). The "most striking uniformity" he finds in the political field is the "achievement of governmental efficiency" as exemplified in the adoption of the metric system after the French Revolution. Perhaps his best discovery is that revolutions are carried out by human beings. This is an important ‘point, but it does not need a whole book of skittish expanded lecture notes
to make. it. Though he shows no signs | of having read them, the author does include in his reading guide some of the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin, The book shows signs of industry, but not of understanding: if one were not aware of the university position he holds, it might be suggested that me author is not an -historian.
W.B.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 13
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194UNCERTAIN GUIDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 13
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