...This chapter delineates common features of all communist states. The sixteen communist regimes all had in common, during their early years in power, a commitment to revolution and to the use of revolutionary violence to consolidate their power, a determination to build socialism on the Stalinist...

... in New Left debates about “revolutionary” violence discussed in the previous chapter. Nevertheless, the phallocentrism of Motherfucker rhetoric occluded the problem of gendered violence from its reworking of self-defense, posing the militant body as persistently masculine at the very moment when feminist...

... Duan Le Duc Tho tyrannical certitude revolutionary utopias Mexican Revolution utopian ideals imagined utopias revolutionary regimes revolutionary violence It is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in 1939. … [T]hose who carry the real guilt for the murderous struggle...

... understandings of revolutionary violence—violence that was destructive, graphic, even terrifying, and that required explanation and justification. In the legislative bodies of revolutionary France, these two moments marked times when the relationship between revolution and violence was thrown into question...

...This concluding chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. It particularly focuses on the relationship between pro-revolutionary violence and nature in revolutionary rhetoric. During the Revolution, spontaneous violence was portrayed as inevitable, natural, and constructive...

... Beckett Samuel “Red Carnations The” 1964 Groensteen Thierry McCloud Scott subject the Wells H G Gilman Charlotte race Sally Heathcote Suffragette 2014 Marxism Utopianism Gender Revolutionary violence Perhaps indeed we need to develop an anxiety about losing the future which is analogous...

...Rather than looking at Khmer Rouge violence as an eruption of the irrational, this chapter analyzes the purposive nature of revolutionary violence, providing both structural and ideological explanations for its emergence as a policy instrument by linking it to the twin imperatives of ensuring...

... shaped Bolshevik conceptions of the need to monopolize power, to eliminate the social classes that had been pillars of the old regime, and to use virtuous “revolutionary violence” toward these ends. Lenin did not have long to revel in the Bolshevik victory of October 1917. The country was still...

... youth, no matter their location, to turn to acts of revolutionary violence to defend Jews from attack. Some of them wondered aloud whether their potential targets could include their Jewish rivals. The chapter follows Betar's overlapping conversations about their use of violence in Poland...

... Russo Japanese War Sabotage historiography precursors rebellion palace coup foreign invasion revolutionary violence terrorism agents provocateurs revolutionary conspiracy insecurity Between the winter of 1937 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three-quarters of a million Soviet citizens...

... people’s courts sentence trial violence legal culture Lenin V I Narkomiust October Revolution GPU peasants prison sentence revolutionary justice revolutionary tribunals revolutionary violence law Soviet law Russian Revolution In 1923, 10,000 copies were published of a book commemorating...

... Joe Doyle Arthur Conan Hardy Thomas Pearse Pádraig revolutionary violence Campbell Matthew Flanagan Frances Literature in Ireland MacDonagh MacDonagh Thomas Nordau Max O’Duffy Eimar Remembering the Revolution Flanagan The Wasted Island O’Duffy caricature Eliot T S Morrell Ottoline...

... the “formula” for eliminating every form of human suffering. This formula consists of the destruction of the present world through revolutionary violence, which means that the future of humanity depends on politics. The Red Brigades practice a “new” politics that aspires to a metapolitical aim: the perfect...

... and revolutionary violence; the social role and possible use of violence in general; and the European system of freedoms. It describes digression on the revolt against declassing, on being both a liberal and a socialist, on a non-forbidding socialist appropriation, on class war to the death, on the tyranny...

... Das Kapital Italian Fascism Curzio Malaparte Alberto Moravia revolutionary violence self-censorship totalitarianism WWII literature In his 1982 essay, influential literary critic Alberto Asor Rosa highlighted how early postwar Italian culture lacked a thorough discussion of totalitarianism...

... Richard Harriman Averell Moynihan Daniel Patrick Kennedy Robert Newfield Jack rioting Shriver Sargent Tom Hayden Nathan Wright Jr. National Conference on Black Power left radicalism revolutionary violence New Right neoliberalism In the eyes of many government and police officials, blame...

... Dávila Santiago Rubén Aybar Julio masturbation prostitution Ramos Emiliano Sánchez Eugenio sexuality motherhood Álvarez Rosa del Valle Adrián Fin de fiesta 1898 Michel Louise Santiago Jesús antiauthoritarianism violence Bolshevik Revolution leftist culture gender revolutionary violence...

...This chapter explores different types of revolutionary violence adopted by Irish nationalists in Ireland and the Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century. Due to the limitations of past rebellions, militant nationalists sought to adopt new strategies that embraced science and modernity. This led...

... Supriya vulnerability Naxalbari/Naxalites Kolkata/Bengal Revolutionary violence Gender Sexual politics of left movements the Bengali bhadralok Interviews Research relations There are various ways to approach the history and meaning of Naxalbari: as a study of urban discontent and student revolts...