Fire in the Minds of Men Billington James H. Paperback
Fire in the Minds of Men Billington James H. Paperback This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge…
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Fire in the Minds of Men Billington James H. Paperback
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era.
Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century.The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as