C. Malaparte, Coup d’état, the Technique of Revolution. English

translation, New York, 1932. An annoyingly bright young Italian Fascist intellectual writes on the only way to make a revolution. As narrow and, in a perverted sense, idealistic as any Marxist writing.

E. D. Martin, Farewell to Revolution. New York, 1935. A very able and sensible writer on political and social problems has here allowed his fears to lead him into writing a bad book. Mr. Martin, as his choice of title indicates, is writing a book against revolutions of all sorts. Hastily assembled from inadequate materials. Stands up badly in comparison with L. P. Edwards’s book above.

R. W. Postgate, How to Make a Revolution. New York, 1934. An English Leftist, formerly a Communist and now apparently just Labour, writes rather wistfully about the possibilities of a decent, respectable revolution in Western countries. A good deal of useful discussion of the techniques of modern revolutionary parties of the Left, with touches of very English humor.

Revolution from 1789 to 1906. London, 1920. Mr. Postgate has here made a handy collection of constitutions, bills of rights, manifestoes and similar documents touching the important revolutionary movements of the period.

S. A. Reeves, The Natural Laws of Social Convulsions. New York, 1933. A most ambitious attempt to apply the methods of the physical sciences to the subject. Mr. Reeves is not skeptical enough to be a scientist. He emerges with forty-five “natural” or “cosmic” laws, of which Law XLV is a not unfair example: “Man would rather Die, even in Prolonged Agony, than to Think.” The work of a doctrinaire person on the edge of the lunatic fringe, and much influenced by the position of men like Herbert Spencer, it has none the less a good deal of useful material.

E. Rosenstock-Hüssy, Die europäische Revolutionen. Jena, 1931. Written in what to an American seems the German cloud-cuckoo-land of beautiful and inexact ideas, choosing convenient and rejecting inconvenient facts, something in the tradition of Spengler, but with the kindly hopes of a man of good will. Full of interesting suggestions and flashes of insight, poetic to a prosaic nature. An English version by the author is promised.

S. D. Schmalhausen, Editor, Recovery through Revolution. New York, 1933. Chapters contributed by Louis Fischer, Harold Laski, Carleton Beals, Robert Briffault, G. Salvemini, and others. Rapid narrative accounts of the principal fields of revolutionary activity since the war, Germany, Russia, China, South America, Italy, and Spain.

H. See, Evolution et révolutions. Paris, 1929. A somewhat pedestrian examination of the English, French, and American revolutions, those of the nineteenth century and the Russian revolution. Excellent brief bibliographies for the revolutions discussed.

P. A. Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics. Vol. III, Fluctuations of Social Relationships, War and Revolutions. New York, 1937. Mr. Sorokin’s general position is an emotional dislike for the contemporary world, which is, he thinks, about to undergo a worse series of wars and revolutions than any the human race has yet had to put up with. This Volume III has a most imposing set of statistics to show that revolutions have been more or less endemic in Western civilization. Some such conclusion might have been made safely without all these statistics, which in detail are not altogether reliable. They tend to exaggerate the amount of violence and bloodshed since 1900.

G. Soule, The Coming American Revolution. New York, 1934. A thoughtful, temperate book written by one of the more temperate of American “liberals.” The book deals much more widely with the general subject of revolutions than its title would indicate.

INDEX

Abbott, Professor W. C., 29

Abortive revolution, 33, 34

Adams, John, 156

Adams, Sam, 53, 59, 104, 116, 124, 135, 297

Agreement of the People, The, 198

Albemarle, 250, 261

All-Russian Central Executive Committee, 207

All-Russian Congress of Soviets, 207

American Civil War, 33

American Revolution, 34, 50, 84, 88, 100, 106, 155, 165, 195, 216, 229

Anabaptists, 154

Antinomians, 154

Antonov-Ovseënko, 127

Arnold, Matthew, 57

Articles of Confederation, the, 253

Asceticism, 227

Assembly of Notables, the, 89

Babeuf, 215

Bacon, 27

Bagehot, 131

Bailly, 124, 134

Barebone, Praise-God, 214

Bastille Day, 92, 97, 98, 102, 289

Baxter, 120

Beaumarchais, 82

Bentham, Jeremy, 27, 235

Berkman, Alexander, 301

Bitzenko, Madame, 127

Blake, Admiral, 232, 250

Bolsheviks, 122, 128, 166, 180, 221, 268

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 247

Boston Massacre, 88

Boston Port Bill, 43

Boston Tea Party, 46, 88, 104

Brest-Litovsk, 127

Brissot, 124, 157

Brissotins, 157

Brusilov, 123

Bunker Hill, 97

Burke, Edmund, 47

Cabarrus, Teresia de, 261

Cagliostro, 77

Camus, 124

Career open to talent, 75

Carlyle, 57

Carrier, 137

Cassandra, 81

Catherine the Great, 216

Cavaliers, 68

Ceremonial, 214, 235

Chamberlin, W. H., 198, 204, 210, 238

Charles I, 50, 51, 84, 106, 109

Charles II, 259

Chase, Stuart, 27

Chaucer, 29

Cheka, 133, 137, 207

Chicherin, 116, 127

Chkheidze, 170

Cicero, 31

Civil Constitution of the Clergy, the, 172

Class struggle, 64, 71, 79, 222, 240

Cochin, A., 53, 98

Coleridge, 193

Comité de surété générale, 207

Comités révolutionnaires, 207

Committee of Public Safety, 206

Committees of Correspondence, 104

Communist party, the, 182, 188

Compromisists, 123, 159, 170

Comsomol, 227

Conceptual scheme, 17, 23, 25, 244, 292

Concord, 97, 289

Condorcet, 124, 133, 176

Conservative revolution, 32

Continental Congress, 89, 156

Convention, the, 207

Criminals and revolution, 139, 209

Cromwell, 69, 125, 137, 143, 189, 190, 191, 245, 247, 251

Danton, 124, 157, 197, 201, 284

Desmoulins, 124

Diaz, Porfirio, 36

Dictatorship, 34, 200, 248

Digby, 172

Diggers, 126, 152, 204

Disorder, endemic, 38

Downing, 250, 261

Du Barry, Madame, 77

Dubois, Abbé, 77

Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 127, 133

Economic change, 276

Economic motivation, 47, 70, 79, 129, 223, 239

Economic prosperity, 41

Economic want, 41, 43

Edwards, Lyford P., 55

Eliot, Sir John, 85

Emigration, 260

English Revolution, 40, 50, 72, 84, 85, 100, 106, 151, 164, 195, 197, 202, 214, 245, 259, 263

Enragés, the, 205

Episcopalians, 151

Equilibrium, 24, 33, 295

Essex, 69, 116

Estates-General, the, 90

Everard, Robert, 126

Falkland, 172, 176

February Revolution, 92, 103, 122, 289

Feuillants, 153, 165, 169

Fifth Monarchy Men, 152

Figaro, 82

Force, use of, 106

Ford, Henry, 75

Foreign war, role of, 175, 238

Fouché, 192, 251, 256, 261

Fourier, 15

France, Anatole, 213

Freemasons, 53

French Revolution, 40, 48, 84, 89, 107, 117, 165, 185, 194, 199, 201, 215, 245, 255, 258, 262

French revolutionary calendar, 215

Freud, 46

Friends of Peace, 170

Gage, 88, 107

Gaspee, the, 88

George III, 51, 100, 109

Gironde, 157

Girondins, the, 153, 169

Gogol, 275

Gooch, Professor G. P., 60, 204

Goodwin, John, 203

Gorki, 216, 219, 250

Gottschalk, Professor L. R., 134

Grand Duke Michael, 94

Grand Remonstrance, 87

Graydon, Alexander, 122

Grierson, Professor, 59, 195

Guchkov, 126

Gwyn, Nell, 261

Hampden, John, 40, 69, 87, 116

Hancock, John, 47, 116

Hare, John, 204

Haselrig, 87

Heads of the Proposals, The, 198

Hébert, 116, 201

Hébertistes, 205

Henderson, Professor L. J., 19

Henry, Patrick, 95, 145

d’Herbois, Collot, 137

Historical method, 21, 22

Holles, Denzil, 86, 87, 148, 177

Holmby House, 155, 197

Homosexuality, 281

House of Commons, five members of, 87

Hutchinson, Governor, 121

Hutchinson, Mrs. Lucy, 72

Hutton, Barbara, 287

Hyde, 172

Idealism and revolution, 217

Idealists and revolution, 142, 190

Ideas, role of, 63

Independents, 54, 140, 152, 172, 180, 202

Induction, 17

Industrial Revolution, 35

Ireton, 125, 252

Jacobins, 117, 123, 129, 165, 168, 180, 188, 194, 212, 219, 221, 234

James I, 49

Jameson, J. F., 121, 223

Jefferson, 101, 190, 284

Joffe, 127

Johnson, Mrs. Francis, 225

“July Days,” 168

Kadets, 123, 149, 153, 159, 289

Kalinin, 127

Kamenev, 126, 127

Kapital, Das, 129, 221, 284

Karakhan, 127

Kerensky, 92, 103, 116, 126, 159, 168, 170, 176, 189

Kimbolton, Lord, 87

Konavalov, 116, 134

Kornilov, 160

Ku Klux Klan, 185

Lafayette, 65, 67, 90, 112, 116, 124, 128, 132, 148, 157

Lameths, the, 124, 157

Laud, 84

Lavoisier, 124

Law, John, 47

Leaders, revolutionary, 124

League of the Militant Godless, 257

Lenin, 115, 116, 126, 144, 160, 189, 190, 191, 199, 219, 226, 235, 246, 252, 284, 297

Lenthall, 95

Le Play, 279

Lerner, Max, 15

Levellers, 152, 199

Lewis, Sinclair, 75

Lilburne, John, 62, 125, 140

Linde, Fedor, 148

Long Parliament, 86, 97, 106

Louis XV, 49

Louis XVI, 107, 109

Ludlow, 125

Lunacharsky, 145, 160

Lunatic fringe, 139

Lvov, Prince, 126, 159

Lyons, Eugene, 265, 267

Machiavelli, 27

Machinery of government, 238

Madison, 175

Maitland, F. W., 193

Malesherbes, 52

Marat, 116, 124, 134, 197, 201, 235

Marie Antoinette, 287

Marston Moor, 151

Marten, Henry, 141

Martin, E. D., 272

Marx, Karl, 39, 115, 224, 235, 254, 296

Marxists, 28, 46, 61, 129, 167, 176, 221, 224, 275, 300

Mathiez, Albert, 252

Maximum, Law of the, 209

Mencken, H. L., 225

Mensheviks, 123, 149, 159

Mercier, L. S., 78

Merriman, Professor R. B., 48

Military Revolution Committee, 197

Militia Order, 189

Miliukov, 116, 123, 126, 148, 159

Mill, 57

Millenarians, 204, 234

Miller, J. C., 136

Milton, John, 72, 116, 284

Minorities, role of, 182

Mirabeau, 91, 95, 99, 124, 133, 157, 176, 189

Molasses Act, 45

Molière, 131

Monge, 124

Montaigne, 301

Morison, Professor S. E., 125

Morley, Christopher, 29

Morris, 57

Mounier, 157

Mountain, 157

Muir, Ramsay, 42

Napoleon, 107, 250

Narodniks, 159

Naseby, 151

National Assembly, 91

Nationalism, 232, 254

Nationalistic revolution, 34

Natural law, 61

Navigation Act, 44, 45

Necker, 52, 90, 98, 102

New Economic Policy, 265

Newman, 57

New Model Army, 120, 152, 154, 164, 172, 182, 187

Nicholas II, 93, 109

October revolution, 160, 171, 197

Order Number One, 173

d’Orléans, Duc, 102, 124, 134

Paine, Thomas, 116, 130

Pareto, V., 24, 27, 75

Parliament, Short, 86

Paris Commune of 1871, 33

Pâris-Duverney, 47, 77

Parlements, 89

Parliament of Saints, 199

Peasantry, 73

Peggy Stewart, the, 88

Pétion, 157

Petition of Right, 85

Petrovsky, 238

Pettee, Dr. George, 46

Philosophes, 58, 60

Pitt, William, 225

Plato, 81

Plebiscites, 186, 289

Poincaré, H., 21

Pokrovsky, 127

Presbyterians, 120, 140, 152, 165, 172

Pressure groups, 52, 53, 54, 99, 185

Preston Pans, 155

Pride’s Purge, 155, 171

Proletariat, 73, 74

Propaganda, 27, 62, 168

Protopopov, 66

Puritans, 129, 139, 224

Pym, 87, 116, 176

Quebec Act, 45, 88

Rasputin, 78

Religious symbolism, 236

Renaming, 214

Revolution, abortive, 33, 34; American, 34, 50, 84, 88, 100, 106, 155, 165, 195, 216, 229; conservative, 32; criminals and, 139, 209; definitions of, 35; English, 40, 50, 72, 84, 85, 100, 106, 151, 164, 195, 197, 202, 214, 245, 259, 263; February, 92, 103, 122, 289; French, 40, 48, 84, 89, 107, 117, 165, 185, 194, 199, 201, 215, 245, 255, 258, 262; idealism and, 217; idealists and, 142, 190; nationalistic, 34; October, 160, 171, 197; Russian, 40, 51, 84, 85, 92, 100, 108, 158, 165, 184, 194, 197, 199, 202, 216, 246, 256, 265; territorial, 33

Revolutions of 1848, 33

Revolutionary proselyters, 232

Revolutionist, clichés about, 114

Richelieu, 260

Rivarol, 73

Robespierre, 124, 142, 157, 189, 190, 191, 197, 201, 245, 252, 283, 297

Rogers, John, 126

Roland, Madame, 72, 124

Root-and-Branch Bill, 172

Rousseau, 63

Ruling class, 64, 278

Rump, 155, 199, 207, 245

Russian revolution, 40, 51, 84, 85, 92, 100, 108, 158, 165, 184, 194, 197, 199, 202, 216, 246, 256, 265

Sade, Marquis de, 138

Sainte-Beuve, 131

St. Huruge, Marquis de, 133

St. Simon, Comte de, 215

Schlesinger, Professor Arthur M., 44, 156

Scientific method, 16, 30

Self-denying ordinance, 172

Sexby, Edward, 125, 233

Shaftesbury, 250

Shays’s Rebellion, 270

Shelley, 115, 133

Ship Money, 54

Short Parliament, 86

Siéyès, 62

Signers of Declaration of Independence, 124

Smith, Adam, 46

Social change, 278

Socialist-Revolutionary party, 123, 149, 159

Sociétés de pensée, 53

Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce with the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 104

Sokolov, N. D., 174

Sons of Liberty, 84, 104, 121, 188, 212

Sovereignty, problem of, 161

Spencer, H., 15

Stalin, 127, 168, 216, 219, 236, 246, 247, 250, 257, 266, 269

Stamp Act, 42, 44, 45

Stewart, the Peggy, 88

Stoddard, Lothrop, 128

Stolypin, 52

Strachey, Lytton, 203

Strafford, 51, 84, 97

Strode, 87

Sukharevka Market, 209

Sverdlov, 127

Taine, 73

Talleyrand, 116, 133, 261

Tallien, 263

Talma, 77

Tammany Hall, 185

Tawney, R. H., 226

Tax reform, 45

Tennyson, 57

Tereschenko, 126, 134

Theophrastus, 29, 131

Théot, Catherine, 205

Third Estate, 90

Thucydides, 27, 294

Tocqueville, A. de, 273

Townshend, 88

Trevelyan, Professor G. M., 202

Trotsky, 44, 100, 103, 126, 130, 144, 160, 183, 185, 192, 194, 219, 246, 252, 283, 285

Trudoviks, 159

Tseretelli, 145, 170

Turgenev, 58

Turgot, 45, 52

Uniformities, 36, 96, 105, 167, 201, 206, 244, 247, 271, 274, 286, 299

Valentine, 86

Vallée, Rudy, 75

Vane, Sir Harry, 116, 250

Vergniaud, 145

Violence, role of, 92, 138, 179, 212, 237

Voltaire, 77

Washington, George, 45, 69, 116, 137, 247

Washington, Laurence, 223

Watteau, 77

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 227, 265

Weber, Max, 226

Webster, Mrs. Nesta, 67

Wells, H. G., 178

Westminster Assembly, 153

Winstanley, 125, 126

Wordsworth, 111

Zinoviev, 145

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Punctuation has been made consistent.