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The Spectre of Babeuf

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Ian H. Birchall
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 1-5

  3. The Emergence of a Revolutionary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. ‘Born in the Mud’

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 9-28

    3. Advancing Revolution

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 29-49

    4. The Conspiracy

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 50-70

    5. The Trial

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 71-80

  4. The Condescension of Posterity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. First Opinions

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 83-97

    3. 1848 and After

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 98-106

    4. The Shadow of October

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 107-121

    5. Cold War and After

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 122-130

  5. Babeuf’s Socialism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Common Happiness

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 133-146

    3. Theory and Practice

      • Ian H. Birchall
      Pages 147-160

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 161-204
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This study of Babeuf as a political thinker, based on an analysis of his extensive writings, and on scholarship unavailable in English, shows him to be a major precursor of the modern revolutionary socialist tradition. The first part traces Babeuf's political evolution in the context of the French Revolution; the second examines his changing reputation among subsequent historians. The final section assesses the originality of his thought, showing him to be neither a Jacobin nor a Utopian.
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