The Doctors of Revolution
19th-Century Thinkers Who Changed the World
Shlomo Barer
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| 'It is a stunning piece of work. While sweeping in its scope, it is a carefully researched and thoughtfully conceived book.' | Bruce Mazlish,
Professor of History, M.I.T. |
| 'Barer is an invaluable source of all we can ever want to know about the period.' | Frederick Raphael
– Sunday Times |
| 'It's the real thing: a collective biography that is also...a fascinating narrative of the social and cultural history in which modernity itself was defined....Barer is superb at communicating the intellectual passion of this period.' | | - The Observer |
The 1789 French Revolution sparked off an explosion of political, economic and social agitation, the effects of which are still felt today all over the world.
German philosophers, French politicians, Russian aristocrats, poets and workers were caught up in this ferment; but its two towering figures were Marx and Engels, the archangels of the international Socialist movement. The German poet, Heine, called them ‘Doctors of the Revolution’, and this term is used to include the other fighters for social justice who are vividly described here: firebrands like Bakunin, Herzen, Hess, Lassalle and many more.
Barer’s majestic book is the first to explore the complex ties between these characters throughout their lives. This is an enthralling account of these apostles of Communism, Socialism, Anarchism, Russian Populism, Bolshevism and Zionism whose conflicts and triumphs have dominated our own century.
The Doctors of Revolution is a work of epic dimensions which will be essential in the study of modern social history.
Also of interest:
Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500018847 | | ISBN-13 978-0500018842 | | | | 25.3 x 17.7 cm | | Hardback | | 1216pp | | First published 2000 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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