Revision and Retreat in the Historiography of 1917
Social History and Its Critics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3357114 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Grigor Suny (0009-0004-7525-0271, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165 |
| Publication date | 1994-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/130821 |
| OpenAlex | W2326101895 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
O ne of the most intriguing ironies of the studies of the great European revolutions in the last several decades was that the dominant interpretations of the French and Russian revolutions were moving in opposite directions. While the revisionists of the French Revolution were dismantling a Marxist orthodoxy-what was called in a pioneering attack, the interpretation-and proposing a renewed emphasis on ideas and cultural representations, their counterparts in the Russian field steadily eroded an anti-Marxist orthodoxy that largely focused on ideology and personality and rejected social or class analysis. In its place they constructed a social historical interpretation that reevaluated and considerably modified the concept of class.' The French revisionists, led by Francois Furet, had set out to make the French Revolution more opaque than it appeared in the Lefebvrean synthesis.2 Expanding their explanatory repertoire beyond the realms of demography, economics and social structures (most importantly class) that had been so central to Mathiez, Labrousse, Lefebvre and his followers, Furet and others used the insights from Saussurian structural linguistics and semiotics to investigate the role of ideas, belief systems, political languages and modes of speech.3 Politics were no longer to be derived from social
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2021 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |