War and revolution
Subtitle: rethinking the twentieth century
By: Domenico Losurdo ; translated by Gregory Elliott
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781781686164; 9781781687246; 9781781686171
Subjects: Modern History; Historiography; Philosophy; World politics; Modern Military history; Revolutions; History; Civil war; Genocide; Communism; Fascism; HISTORY / Revolutionary; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Historiography
Description: "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"--
Notes: An amplification and revision of three works: chapters 1-5 reproduce Il revisionismo storico : problemi e miti (Laterza, 1996. 5th edition, 2002); chapter 6 was written especially for the English edition; and chapter 7 is a translation of Il peccato originale del Novecento (Laterza, 1998. 3rd edition, 2007).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index.
Table of contents: title: Two Centuries Under Discussion : Historical Revisionism; title: The Revolutionary Cycle and Terror : Britain, France, America; title: The Bolshevik October, International Civil War and the Colonial Question; title: "White War of Independence," "International Civil War," the "American Century" and the "Second Thirty Years' War"; title: The Colonial Tradition, Total War and Genocide; title: Nostalgia for Empire : Historical Revisionism in Britain; title: The Black Book, the Communist Movement and the Struggle Against the Three Major Forms of Discrimination.