History and Revolution: Refuting Revisionism - Softcover

"Haynes has managed simultaneously to capture the passion for change that motivated the original Bolshevik revolution with a coherent explanation of its long-term failure." - Henry Reichman, Professor of Russian History, University of California"

In "History and Revolution", a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an exploration of the English, French and Russian revolutions and their treatment by revisionist historiography, to the debates and themes arising from attempts to downplay revolution's role in history, "History and Revolution" also engages with several prominent revisionist historians, including Orlando Figes, Conrad Russell and Simon Schama.