description: "One of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic), Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark books -- including The Age of Capital, The Age of Revolution, Bandits, and The Age of Extremes -- that has both set the standard for radical scholarship and influenced historical thinking across the political spectrum. Back in print after thirty years, Revolutionaries is vintage Hobsbawm, written amid one of the century's most intense periods of political and social upheaval. Few observers have been as astute at probing, criticizing, and clarifying radical movements, whether in Beijing or Berkeley. Ranging from historical investigations into communism to contemporary appraisals of revolutionary movements and meditations on Marxism, Hobsbawm's commentaries are essential guides to the ideas and people that changed the face of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Revolutionaries
titlecomplete: Revolutionaries
genres: History, Society, Philosophy, Essays, Politics, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 329
publisher: Plume