The Revolutionary Organisation: Armed Struggle from the Late 18th Century to the Present

By Erik van Ree

This is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the armed-struggle revolutionary organisation. The Revolutionary Organisation covers the period from the late 18th century to the present, is global in scope, and discusses organisations inspired by all main ideological traditions: communist, anti-colonialist, nationalist, democratic, Islamist, fascist, and white supremacist. The condition of life-and-death struggle with the state imposes similar patterns of operation upon these organisations, irrespective of their ideological inclinations. This work interprets armed-struggle revolutionary organisations as hybrids of three orientations: an apparatus of professional revolutionaries; an emotional community sustained by ideology, battle comradeship, and ritual; and an instrument of physical force nurturing an heroic organisational ethos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004737219
• ISBN13: 9789004737211
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"