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.

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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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Technological Revolutions

Wheels ancient and modern.

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Miscellany

For a 2005 British TV program, a full-size replica of the House of Lords was built in order to determine what damage would have been done had Guy Fawkes ignited the explosives during the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Everyone in the House, including King James I, and anyone within about three hundred feet, would have died.

c. 460 BC | Athens

Putting Down the Revolt

Zeus makes Prometheus pay the price.More

1582 | Rome

Getting It Right

Pope Gregory XIII sets the date.More

1976 | Paris

Class Notes

Julio Cortázar considers politics vs. literature.More

Charts & Graphs

Internal Divisions

Revolutionaries go head-to-head.

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Color photograph of German novelist Peter Schneider.

Black and white photograph of psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary.

Black and white photograph of American birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger.

Black and white photograph of Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud with cigar.

Portrait bust of Greek dramatist Aeschylus.

At the age of seventeen, Hawthorne mused to his mother about the possibility of “relying for support upon my pen.”

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

Color image of French philosopher Auguste Comte.

Black and white photograph of psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary.

Auguste Comte & Timothy Leary

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