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  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (23 Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333653297
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333653296
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The relation of revolutions to international relations is central to modern history. Revolutions have, as much as war or nationalism, shaped the development of world politics. Equally, revolutions have been, in cause, ideology and consequence, international events. By putting the international politics of revolution centre stage, Fred Halliday's book contributes to the understanding of both revolution and world politics.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Pompous, dogmatic ,Trotskyist, defeatist ..., 5 Aug 2001
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This is a study of the fascinating topics of politics, wars and revolutions. Unfortunately, however, Halliday has produced a dull and schematic book, academic in the worst sense, just another pessimistic lament for the end of history and the end of revolutions.

He attempts to summarise the origins and effects of revolutions from France's 1789 to Iran's 1979, and to place them in their international contexts. But he slights both the makers and the achievements of every revolution, and neglects those most important facts, that revolution stopped World War One, won World War Two, and has prevented World War Three (so far).

He also tries to analyse the forms of counter-revolution. But he confusingly describes the counter-revolutions of 1989 as revolutions, even though he helpfully provides us with evidence of how catastrophic they have been for workers: their living standards plummeted, as in every East European country (except Poland) Gross Domestic Product fell by 50% between 1989 and 1997, and in the former Soviet Republics by 44%.

In Britain too, we have had to survive counter-revolution, through two decades of diminished democracy in workplace and community, in countryside and city. Yet Thatcher does not even rate a mention!

The books failings derive from Halliday's Trotskyism. In this book, he consistently uses Trotsky's metaphysical theory of 'combined and uneven development'. Halliday was on the New Left Review's editorial board, and he still promotes their self-flattering beliefs that intellectuals are the vanguard of progress, and that the writings of the European oppositional theorists are the only true Marxism. They all believe that the ruling class dominates the mind of the British working class, which can only avoid incorporation into the state if it acknowledges the leadership of those who understand the works of these theorists. Yet somehow, the British working class has always managed to make its own decisions, keep its independence of mind and escape incorporation.

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