Product Description: Neither a work concerned only with her Marxist writings nor a personal biography concerned with her private life, this book examines Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas on revolution and democracy and how the two are bound together by her views on the importance of political action...read more

Product Description: How and why countries become democracies remain intriguing questions. This innovative volume provides a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, totalitarianism and democracy. It will appeal to those interested in the relationship between history and democracy and the implications for the understanding of democracy today...read more

Product Description: Drawing on historical case studies, this work distinguishes between repressive and terror governments, and between totalitarian dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. It argues that terror states operate behind the state and are recognized by their substantive irrationality.

Product Description: This book is a study of the use of violence and the role played by ideology in the building of the new revolutionary state. Recent revolutions, Ethiopia and Iran in particular, suggest the general importance of revolutionary reigns of terror to the understanding both of the nature of revolutionary governments and the outcomes of revolutions...read more