Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution 9780805082616

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Автор: Scurr Ruth
Название: Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
Перевод названия: Рут Скурр: Роковая непорочность. Робеспьер и французская революция
ISBN: 9780805082616
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Издательство: Owl Books (NY)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0805082611
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 408
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2007
Язык: English
Размер: 213.40 x 139.70 x 30.50
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.
--Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? The first modern dictator or the earliest democrat? Was his extreme moralism a heroic virtue or a ruinous flaw?
Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Ruth Scurr tracks Robespierres evolution from provincial lawyer to devastatingly efficient revolutionary leader, righteous and paranoid in equal measure. She explores his reformist zeal, his role in the fall of the monarchy, his passionate attempts to design a modern republic, even his extraordinary effort to found a perfect religion. And she follows him into the Terror, as the former death- penalty opponent makes summary execution the order of the day, himself falling victim to the violence at the age of thirty-six.
Written with epic sweep, full of nuance and insight, Fatal Purity is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, Scurr Ruth