The Revolutionary Organisation : Armed Struggle from the Late 18th Century to the Present /
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...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2026.
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Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Studies in Global Social History ;
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Call Number: D410
Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- PART 1
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction
- 1 Revolutionary Organisations
- 2 Revolution and Modernity
- 3 Definitions
- 4 Problems of Definition
- 5 Three Great Traditions
- 6 Making Revolution: Spontaneous and Planned Revolutions
- 7 Methodology
- 8 Subjectivity, Sources
- 2 The Revolutionary Organisation
- 1 Apparatus, Emotional Community, Instrument of Physical Force
- 2 Apparatus
- 3 Emotional Community
- 4 Instrument of Physical Force
- 5 The Life-and-Death Struggle
- PART 2
- Professional Revolutionaries
- 3 Revolutionary Commitment
- 1 Social Injustice and Humiliation
- 2 Humiliated Nation. Humiliated Race
- 3 Gender: Humiliation and the Independent Life
- 4 Heroes Old and New
- 5 Heroic Self-Sculpting
- 6 The Life of Greatness
- 7 Conversion
- 8 The Criminal Element
- 9 Commitment
- 4 Professional Revolutionaries
- 1 Revolution as Skill
- 2 Revolution as Secrecy
- 3 Revolution on Salary
- 4 Revolutionary Criminality
- 5 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: Exiles versus Undergrounders
- 6 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: the Leader-Centred Organisation
- 7 Leadership and Gender
- 5 Revolutionary Intelligentsia, Revolutionary Margin
- 1 Revolutionary Social Mobility
- 2 Drifters
- 3 The Family Uprooted
- 4 International Armed Solidarity
- 5 Total Immobility
- 5.1 Revolutionary Bohemia
- 6 Communal Living
- 7 The Mainstream (Or Not-So-Mainstream) Lifestyle
- 8 The Ascetic-Puritanical Lifestyle
- 9 The Libertine Lifestyle
- 6 Emotional Community
- 1 The Revolutionary Personality
- 2 Battle
- 3 The Idea
- 4 Collective Study
- 5 Ritual
- 6 Initiation Ceremonies, the Oath
- 7 Ceremonies of Periodic Meeting, Martyr Rituals
- 8 Modes of Address and Dress Codes
- 9 Revolutionary Symbolism
- 7 Instrument of Physical Force
- 1 Warfare and Terrorism
- 2 Legitimation: Ends and Means
- 3 A Job to Be Done, Concern, Euphoria, Massacre Fantasies
- 4 Violence as Purification
- 5 Revolutionary Heroism, Embedded Heroism
- 6 Heroic Self-Understanding, Heroic Poetry
- 7 Heroic Propaganda, Heroic Mobilisation
- 8 Revolutionary Heroines
- 9 New Times
- PART 3
- Apparatus
- 8 Professional-Revolutionary Philosophies: the Organisation
- 1 The Pyramid
- 2 Hierarchy No, Organisation Yes
- 3 The Pyramid Perfected
- 4 The Leader
- 5 From Single Leader to 'Non-Organisation'
- 6 Emir, Apparatus, Warriors
- 7 Conclusion
- 9 The Revolutionary Organisation: Beginnings
- 1 The Army Problem
- 2 Bands, Committees, Secret Societies, Religious Congregations
- 3 Clubs and Parties
- 4 Volunteer Armies
- 5 Time of Transition
- 6 The Rise of the Party in Arms
- 10 The Politico-Military Organisation
- 1 Politico-Military Secret Societies
- 2 Communist Parties in Arms
- 3 Parties in Arms: Fascism
- 4 Parties in Arms: Revolutionary Nationalism
- 5 The Volunteer Army Pyramid
- 6 Volunteer Army Two-Branchism
- 7 Islamist Volunteer Armies
- 8 Committees of Military Officers
- 9 Terrorist Army Fractions
- 10 The Politico-Military Control System
- 11 Military Rebellions
- 12 Supranational Organisation
- 11 Revolutionary Etatisation
- 1 Revolutionary Etatisation: Process
- 2 Revolutionary Etatisation: Ideology
- 3 The Nineteenth Century
- 4 Modes of Etatisation
- 5 Rural Guerrillas: State Construction
- 6 Rural Guerrillas: the Social Contract
- 7 Urban Insurrection
- 8 Urban Guerrillas
- Conclusion: Final Thoughts on Revolutionary Organisation and Violence
- 1 The Armed-Struggle Ethos
- 2 Revolution as War
- 3 The Future of Armed Revolution
- Bibliography
- Index
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- PART 1
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction
- 1 Revolutionary Organisations
- 2 Revolution and Modernity
- 3 Definitions
- 4 Problems of Definition
- 5 Three Great Traditions
- 6 Making Revolution: Spontaneous and Planned Revolutions
- 7 Methodology
- 8 Subjectivity, Sources
- 2 The Revolutionary Organisation
- 1 Apparatus, Emotional Community, Instrument of Physical Force
- 2 Apparatus
- 3 Emotional Community
- 4 Instrument of Physical Force
- 5 The Life-and-Death Struggle
- PART 2
- Professional Revolutionaries
- 3 Revolutionary Commitment
- 1 Social Injustice and Humiliation
- 2 Humiliated Nation. Humiliated Race
- 3 Gender: Humiliation and the Independent Life
- 4 Heroes Old and New
- 5 Heroic Self-Sculpting
- 6 The Life of Greatness
- 7 Conversion
- 8 The Criminal Element
- 9 Commitment
- 4 Professional Revolutionaries
- 1 Revolution as Skill
- 2 Revolution as Secrecy
- 3 Revolution on Salary
- 4 Revolutionary Criminality
- 5 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: Exiles versus Undergrounders
- 6 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: the Leader-Centred Organisation
- 7 Leadership and Gender
- 5 Revolutionary Intelligentsia, Revolutionary Margin
- 1 Revolutionary Social Mobility
- 2 Drifters
- 3 The Family Uprooted
- 4 International Armed Solidarity
- 5 Total Immobility
- 5.1 Revolutionary Bohemia
- 6 Communal Living
- 7 The Mainstream (Or Not-So-Mainstream) Lifestyle
- 8 The Ascetic-Puritanical Lifestyle
- 9 The Libertine Lifestyle
- 6 Emotional Community
- 1 The Revolutionary Personality
- 2 Battle
- 3 The Idea
- 4 Collective Study
- 5 Ritual
- 6 Initiation Ceremonies, the Oath
- 7 Ceremonies of Periodic Meeting, Martyr Rituals
- 8 Modes of Address and Dress Codes
- 9 Revolutionary Symbolism
- 7 Instrument of Physical Force
- 1 Warfare and Terrorism
- 2 Legitimation: Ends and Means
- 3 A Job to Be Done, Concern, Euphoria, Massacre Fantasies
- 4 Violence as Purification
- 5 Revolutionary Heroism, Embedded Heroism
- 6 Heroic Self-Understanding, Heroic Poetry
- 7 Heroic Propaganda, Heroic Mobilisation
- 8 Revolutionary Heroines
- 9 New Times
- PART 3
- Apparatus
- 8 Professional-Revolutionary Philosophies: the Organisation
- 1 The Pyramid
- 2 Hierarchy No, Organisation Yes
- 3 The Pyramid Perfected
- 4 The Leader
- 5 From Single Leader to 'Non-Organisation'
- 6 Emir, Apparatus, Warriors
- 7 Conclusion
- 9 The Revolutionary Organisation: Beginnings
- 1 The Army Problem
- 2 Bands, Committees, Secret Societies, Religious Congregations
- 3 Clubs and Parties
- 4 Volunteer Armies
- 5 Time of Transition
- 6 The Rise of the Party in Arms
- 10 The Politico-Military Organisation
- 1 Politico-Military Secret Societies
- 2 Communist Parties in Arms
- 3 Parties in Arms: Fascism
- 4 Parties in Arms: Revolutionary Nationalism
- 5 The Volunteer Army Pyramid
- 6 Volunteer Army Two-Branchism
- 7 Islamist Volunteer Armies
- 8 Committees of Military Officers
- 9 Terrorist Army Fractions
- 10 The Politico-Military Control System
- 11 Military Rebellions
- 12 Supranational Organisation
- 11 Revolutionary Etatisation
- 1 Revolutionary Etatisation: Process
- 2 Revolutionary Etatisation: Ideology
- 3 The Nineteenth Century
- 4 Modes of Etatisation
- 5 Rural Guerrillas: State Construction
- 6 Rural Guerrillas: the Social Contract
- 7 Urban Insurrection
- 8 Urban Guerrillas
- Conclusion: Final Thoughts on Revolutionary Organisation and Violence
- 1 The Armed-Struggle Ethos
- 2 Revolution as War
- 3 The Future of Armed Revolution
- Bibliography
- Index.