Revolutions and Revolutionaries

Taylor examines Chartism, the British revolution that never was, before looking at the social and national revolutions of 1848 when European history, in Trevelyan's phrase, reached its turning point and failed to turn. In 1917 the Bolshevik seizure of power seemed to presage a new wave of revolutions but outside Russia the revolutionary impulse in Europe flagged and died. And now the inheritors of Europe's revolutionary tradition are to be found in other continents.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries is a brilliant study of one of the great themes of history by one of the greatest writers on the subject.
Praise for A.J.P. Taylor:
'The most readable, sceptical and original of modern historians' - Michael Foot
'Anything Mr Taylor writes is worth reading ... he is our greatest popular historian since Macaulay' - The Spectator
'His informal, pithy style makes the book compelling - even exciting - reading' - The Irish Times
A.J.P. Taylor (1906-90)was one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford, and London. Taylor was significant both for the controversy his work on Germany and the Second World War engendered and for his role in the development of history on television.