CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = xi
Revolution and Social Science : Movements in Method, Theory and Practice / Rosemary H. T. O'Kane = xvii
Introduction to Sections and Parts, Volume Ⅰ = xi
SECTION Ⅰ : Understanding the Nature of Revolution-Concept and Typology
1. "Revolution" : An Inquiry into the Usefulness of an Historical Term / Arthur Hatto = 3
2. Revolution : The Politics of Violence / Peter A. R. Calvert = 23
3. Prolegomena to the Comparative History of Revolution in Early Modern Europe / Perez Zagorin = 34
4. Toward a Comparative Study of Revolutions / Elbaki Hermassi = 58
5. Revolution / E. J. Hobsbawm = 82
6. The Varieties of Revolution / Robert H. Dix = 121
7. Patterns of Revolution / Matthew Soberg Shugart = 134
SECTION Ⅱ : Explaining the Causes of Revolution
Part Ⅰ : Revolutionary Causation - Deducing the Theoretical Framework
8. Causes of Revolution / Louis Gottschalk = 159
9. Revolution and the Social System / Chalmers Johnson = 169
10. On the Etiology of Internal War / Harry Eckstein = 183
11. Does Modernization Breed Revolution? / Charles Tilly = 214
Part Ⅱ : Behavioural Approaches - Instability and Violence as the Psychological Response to Change
12. Toward a Theory of Revolution / James C. Davies = 239
13. Rapid Growth as a Destabilizing Force / Mancur Olson, Jr. = 260
14. A Theory of Revolution / Raymond Tanter ; Manus Midlarsky = 281
15. Explorations in the Theory of Social Movements and Revolutions / James A. Geschwender = 302
16. The Revolution - Social-Change Nexus : Some Old Theories and New Hypotheses / Ted Robert Gurr = 315
Part Ⅲ : Structural Theories - Comparative History
17. The Barrington Moore Thesis and its Critics / Jonathan M. Wiener = 349
18. Political Decay and the European Revolutions, 1789-1848 / John R. Gillis = 375
19. France, Russia, China : A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions / Theda Skocpol = 399
20. Understanding Revolutions / John Dunn = 434
Part Ⅳ : Peasants and Revolution - Material and Moral Economy
21. Peasant Rebellion and Revolution / Eric R. Wolf = 457
22. Hegemony and the Peasantry / James C. Scott = 470
23. What Makes Peasants Revolutionary? / Theda Skocpol = 498
24. Revolution in the Revolution : Peasants and Commissars / James C. Scott = 523
VOLUME Ⅱ
CONTENTS
Introduction to Sections and Parts, Volume Ⅱ = ⅶ
SECTION Ⅱ : Explaining the Causes of Revolution(contd)
Part Ⅴ : Rational Choice Approaches - Individual and Collective Action
25. The Paradox of Revolution / Gordon Tullock = 3
26. Political Revolution and Repression : An Economic Approach / Morris Silver = 14
27. Rational Choice and Rebellious Collective Action / Edward N. Muller ; Karl-Dieter Opp = 24
28. Rationality and Revolutionary Collective Action / Michael Taylor = 46
29. Revolutionary Collective Action and the Agent-Structure Problem / Jeffrey Berejikian = 79
30. What Makes Rational Peasants Revolutionary? Dilemma, Paradox and Irony in Peasant Collective Action / Mark I. Lichbach = 100
31. Is Revolution Individually Rational? Groups and Individuals in Revolutionary Collective Action / Jack A. Goldstone = 134
Part Ⅵ : Social Science Theories of Revolution Compared and Assesed
32. Theories of Revolution / Lawrence Stone = 161
33. Reflections on Revolution : Definition and Explanation in Recent Scholarship / Isaac Kramnick = 177
34. Theories of Revolution / Michael Freeman = 213
35. Theories of Revolution in Contemporary Historiography / Perez Zagorin = 236
36. Explaining Revolutions : In Quest of a Social-Structural Approach / Theda Skocpol = 260
37. Theories of Revolution Reconsidered : Contrasting Models of Collective Violence / Rod Aya = 281
38. Theories of Revolution : The Third Generation / Jack A. Goldstone = 339
39. Theories of Revolution Revisited : Toward a Fourth Generation? / John Foran = 365
SECTION Ⅲ : Explaining Revolutionary State Building and the Outcomes of Revolutions
40. Social Revolutions and Mass Military Mobilization / Theda Skocpol = 393
41. Revolution and War / Stephen M. Walt = 413
42. Revolutionary Outcomes in Iran and Nicaragua : Coalition Fragmentation, War, and the Limits of Social Transformation / John Foran ; Jeff Goodwin = 459
43. The National Causes of State Construction in France, Russia and China / Rosemary H. T. O'Kane = 492
SECTION Ⅳ : Revolutionaries' Theories of Revolution as Social Science
44. Two Methods in Search of Science : Skocpol versus Trotsky / Michael Burawoy = 517
45. Latin America : The Long March / R e' gis Debray = 558
VOLUME Ⅲ
CONTENTS
Introduction to Sections and Parts, Volume Ⅲ = ⅶ
SECTION Ⅴ : Case Studies of Great Revolutions : Applying Theories, Testing Hypotheses
Part Ⅶ : Early Revolutions
46. Capitalist Origins of the English Revolution : Chasing a Chimera / Jack A. Goldstone = 5
47. The Social Origins of the American Revolution : An Evaluation and an Interpretation / Jack P Greene = 43
48. Ideologies and Social Revolutions : Reflections on the French Case / William H. Sewell, Jr. = 60
Part Ⅷ : Revolutions of the Twentieth Century - Causes and Means
49. Theories of Revolution and Revolution Without Theory : The Case of Mexico / Walter L. Goldfrank = 93
50. Non-Revolutionary Peasants : Oaxaca Compared to Morelos in the Mexican Revolution / Ronald Waterbury = 122
51. Theory of Revolution : On the Interrelationship Between Objective Conditions and the Subjective Factor / G. E. Glezerman = 155
52. Moral Economy and the Chinese Revolution / Stephen Averill = 170
53. Prologue to the Cuban Revolution / Robin Blackburn = 200
54. The Revolution Betrayed : Ethiopia, 1974-9 / Michael Chege = 239
55. Rentier State and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian Revolution / Theda Skocpol = 259
56. Iran's Islamic Revolution in Comparative Perspective / Said Amir Arjomand = 278
57. The Nicaraguan Insurrection : An Appraisal of its Originality / Ricardo E. Chavarria = 308
Part Ⅸ : Revolutions of the Twentieth Century - State Building and Outcomes
58. The Mexican Revolution : Bourgeois? Nationalist? Or just a 'Great Rebellion'? / Alan Knight = 327
59. Six Views of the Russian Revolution / James H. Billington = 369
60. Was Mao Zedong a Revolutionary? / Edward Friedman = 390
61. Revolution and Institutionalization in Cuba / Nelson P. Vald e' s = 416
62. The Impact of the Cuban Revolution : A Comparative Perspective / Susan Eckstein = 448
63. Revolutionary Socialist Development in Ethiopia / Christopher Clapham = 480
64. One Revolution or Two? The Iranian Revolution and The Islamic Republic / Val Moghadam = 496
65. Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule : Popular and Electoral Democracy in Nicaragua / Philip J. Williams = 525
VOLUME Ⅳ
CONTENTS
Introduction to Sections and Parts, Volume Ⅳ = ⅶ
SECTION Ⅵ : Comparing and Contrasting Cases : Explaining the Success or Failure of Modern Revolutions
66. Studies of Social Revolution : Origins in Mexico, Bolivia, and Cuba / Cole Blasier = 3
67. Why Revolutions Succeed and Fail / Robert H. Dix = 35
68. Class, State and Revolution in Central America : Nicaragua and El Salvador Compared / Manus I. Midlarsky ; Kenneth Roberts = 57
69. The Rise(and Sometimes Fall)of Guerrilla Governments in Latin America / Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley = 83
70. States and Urban Revolutions : Explaining the Revolutionary Outcomes in Iran and Poland / Michael Tien-Lung Liu = 109
71. State Disintegration and Urban-Based Revolutionary Crisis : A Comparative Analysis of Iran and Nicaragua / Farideh Farhi = 135
72. Colonialism and Revolution in Southeast Asia : A Comparative Analysis / Jeff Goodwin = 157
73. Explaining Revolutions in the Contemporary Third World / Jeff Goodwin ; Theda Skocpol = 178
74. A Theory of Third World Social Revolutions : Iran, Nicaragua and El Salvador Compared / John Foran = 198
75. Explaining Transitions from Neopatrimonial Dictatorships / Richard Snyder = 223
76. Women's Participation in Central American Revolutions : A Theoretical Perspective / T. David Mason = 249
77. Revolution Without Movement, Movement Without Revolution : Comparing Islamic Activism in Iran and Egypt / Asef Bayat = 274
SECTION Ⅶ : Revolutionary Change in Eastern Europe, 1989, and the Future of Revolutions
78. Now Out of Never : The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 / Timur Kuran = 311
79. An Interpretation of Communist Decay : The Role of Evolutionary Mechanisms / Kazimierz Poznanski = 349
80. Can Revolutions be Predicted ; Can Their Causes be Understood? / Nikki R. Keddie = 375
81. Predicting Revolutions : Why We Could(and Should)have Forseen the Revolutions of 1989-1991 in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe / Jack A. Goldstone = 395
82. The Future of Revolutions at the fin-de-si \bprimee cle / John Foran = 417
Index = 451