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

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.

Voices In Time

1840 | Paris

Property Is Robbery

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon reveals the truth.More

Voices In Time

1841 | Concord, MA

All Things Renew

Ralph Waldo Emerson on the transience of all things.More

Voices In Time

1916 | London

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

W.B. Yeats on the Irish question.More

Charts & Graphs

Lending a Hand

Foreign rebels, revolutionaries, and freedom fighters.

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Painted portrait of second President of the United States John Adams.

Color photograph of Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident Václav Havel.

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

Portrait of claimant to English throne James Scott, Duke of Monmouth.

Contributors

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Black and white photograph of Irish poet and writer W. B. Yeats.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849