The revolutionary career of Maximilien Robespierre
By: David P. Jordan.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Robespierre, Maximilien, 1758-1794 -- Political and social views; Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Description: In changing forever the political landscape of the modern world, the French Revolution was driven by a new type of personality: the confirmed, self-aware revolutionary. Maximilien Robespierre originated the role, inspiring such devoted twentieth-century disciples as Lenin. Although he dominated the Committee for Public Safety -- the executive arm of the revolutionary government -- only during the last year of his life, Robespierre was the Revolution in flesh and blood. He embodied its ideological essence, its unprecedented extremes, its absolutist virtues and vices; he incarnated a new, completely politicized self to lead a new, wholly regenerated society. [Book jacket].
Notes: Bibliography: p. 299-304.
Includes index.