TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durschmied,Erik
TI  - Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Arab Spring
SN  - 9781611455830
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Skyhorse Publishing Inc
KW  - Revolutions
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - War and society
KW  - Revolutionaries
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Prologue: The king must die . . .; 1 10 August 1792; Interlude: 1794-1809; 2 13 August 1809; Interlude: 1815-1910; 3 18 November 1910; Interlude: 1914-1917; 4 7 November 1917; Interlude: 1917-1918; 5 9 January 1919; Interlude: 1920-1944; 6 20 July 1944; Interlude: April-August 1945; 7 15 August 1945; Interlude: 1945-1959; 8 8 October 1967; Interlude: 1968-1979; 9 16 January 1979; Epilogue: More Alive than Dead; Bibliography; Index
N2  - In this fascinating book, the author of The Hinge Factor and The Weather Factor surveys revolutions across the centuries, vividly portraying the people and events that brought wrenching, often enduring-and always bloody-change to countries and societies almost overnight. Durschmied begins with the French Revolution and goes on to examine the revolutions of Mexico in 1910, Russia in 1917, and Japan in 1945, as well as the failed putsch against Hitler in 1944. His account of the Cuban Revolution is peppered with personal anecdotes-for he was the first foreign
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