Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue - Image 1

£48.99

Routledge Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue

Name: Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue
Brand: Routledge
Price: 39.19 GBP
Availability: InStock

France

Price History & Forecast

Last 44 days • 44 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 44 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £49 (41 days, 93.2%)

Price range: £39 - £49

Price levels: 2 different prices over 44 days

Description

It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin rather than a dazzling Trotsky. Even after the American Revolution the celebrated Jefferson barely made it into office as president between two party regulars. The French Revolution was no exception. After the genius and idealism of Mirabeau, Danton, and others who had created the Revolution, it fell into the hands of an unscrupulous and sententious bourgeois lawyer who had been lost among the back benches of the first Estates-General. Like Stalin, Robespierre rose through tireless party service and meticulous attention to detail and finally through the execution of men who had been the real heroes of the Revolution. Unlike Stalin, however, Robespierre was a brilliant orator who ultimately was destroyed on the guillotine by the very terror he had created to eliminate his rivals. In Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue, Otto J. Scott has created an ironic portrait of hypocrisy in power. This biography is a study in moral arrogance, self-proclaimed virtue, and the effectiveness of brutality in the position of political leadership; it is a reenactment of the events that Robespierre came to personify―the Reign of Terror. This political condition has since been re-enacted all too often.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1412818222
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > France
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 September 2011
Listed Since: 31 January 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

CHOOSING TERROR P: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution

Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution

Robespierre (Profiles In Power)

Robespierre (Profiles In Power)

Jacques Pierre Brissot in America and France, 1788–1793: In Search of Better Worlds

The French Revolution: From its Origins to 1793 (Routledge Classics)

The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment

Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

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

Le livre noir de la Révolution Française

Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution

Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies, Collected from Good Authorities

Napoleon: With an introduction by Andrew Roberts (Routledge Classics)

Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Political and Social Change (Studies in Comparative Social Science)

The French Republic: History, Values, Debates

Walter Scott's Books: Reading the Waverley Novels (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Pierre Bourdieu: The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution

Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

The Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice: Failures, Legacies, and the Future of Revolution (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice)

Routledge - The Life and Death of Trade Unionism in the USSR

Louis-Philippe

Chernenko, the Last Bolshevik: Soviet Union on the Eve of Perestroika

Napoleon the Great

Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror (The Life of Ideas)