Title: War and revolution : rethinking the twentieth century /
Authors: Losurdo, Domenico; Losurdo, Domenico.; Losurdo, Domenico.
Year: 2015
Subjects: History, Modern Historiography; History, Modern; Historiography Philosophy; World politics; Military history, Modern; Revolutions History; Civil war History; Genocide History; Communism History; Fascism History; HISTORY / Revolutionary.; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.; HISTORY / Historiography.
Abstract: "War and Revolution is an original rereading of contemporary history, linking trends of historical revisionism in historiography to an investigation of fundamental philosophical and political categories, such as international civil war, revolution, totalitarianism and genocide. Losurdo begins from the revisionist theses of Ernst Nolte on the Holocaust and of Francois Furet on the French Revolution, and ends with the Anglophone imperial revivalists Paul Johnson and Niall Ferguson. Losurdo captivates the reader with a history of modern revolt that is a tour de force, giving a new perspective on comparisons between the English, American, French and twentieth-century revolutions"--
Contents: Two Centuries Under Discussion : Historical Revisionism -- The Revolutionary Cycle and Terror : Britain, France, America -- The Bolshevik October, International Civil War and the Colonial Question -- "White War of Independence," "International Civil War," the "American Century" and the "Second Thirty Years' War" -- The Colonial Tradition, Total War and Genocide -- Nostalgia for Empire : Historical Revisionism in Britain -- The Black Book, the Communist Movement and the Struggle Against the Three Major Forms of Discrimination.