Political Thought from Machiavelli to Stalin: Revolutionary Machiavellism

By E.A. Rees

Book Overview

This is the first book in English to explore the relationship between Stalin's ideas and methods, and the practices advocated by Machiavelli and those associated with 'Machiavellian' politics. It advances the concept of 'revolutionary Machiavellism' as a way of understanding a particular strand of revolutionary thought from the Jacobins through to Leninism and Stalinism. By providing a wide-ranging survey of European political thought in the Nineteenth - and early Twentieth-century, E. A. Rees locates the Bolshevik tradition within the wider European tradition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140393214X
• ISBN13: 9781403932143
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"