Jacques Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii

The Oath of the Horatii, by Jacques-Louis David, 1784. Louvre, Paris.

Revolutions

Volume VII, Number 2 | spring 2014

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The Nation Is in Danger, or the Enrollment of Volunteers at the Place du Palais-Royal in July 1792, by Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, 1832.

Preamble

Crowd Control

By Lewis H. Lapham

No country can preserve its political liberties unless its rulers know that their people preserve the spirit of resistance.

Essay

Market Corrections

By Orlando Figes

“Is this what we made the revolution for?” Examining the origins and legacy of the New Economic Policy.

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Political Revolutions

Uprisings and revolts across the globe.

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Miscellany

“I have just had a close escape from the Soviets, and now I’m happy to say I’m back with the fairies (Fascists to you),” Dawn Powell wrote to John Dos Passos in 1937, having attended the American Writers’ Congress along with many avowed communists. “The front part of the speeches was always good, but when the brilliant writer minds summed up, they all spelled bushwa.”