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Reivew of Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History

Hannah Proctor ~ RP 2.12 (Spring 2022), pp. 69–75 ~ Review

Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History (London: Verso, 2021). 480 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 1 83976 333 5 The second volume of Peter Weiss’s epic historical novel The Aesthetics of Resistance opens in Paris in 1938. Recently defeated international brigade fighters in the Spanish Civil War, the unnamed narrator and his dejected comrades have taken […]

Lenin and Gandhi: A missed encounter?

Étienne Balibar ~ RP 172 (Mar/Apr 2012), pp. 9–17 ~ Article

The theme I shall address today has all the trappings of an academic exercise.* Still, I would like to attempt to show how it intersects with several major historical, epistemological and ultimately political questions. As a basis for the discussion, I will posit that Lenin and Gandhi are the two greatest figures among revolutionary theorist–practitioners […]