This is the first book in English to explore the relationship between Stalin's ideas and methods, and the practices advocated by Machiavelli and those associated with 'Machiavellian' politics. It advances the concept of 'revolutionary Machiavellism' as a way of understanding a particular strand of revolutionary thought from the Jacobins through to Leninism and Stalinism. By providing a wide-ranging survey of European political thought in the Nineteenth - and early Twentieth-century, E. A. Rees locates the Bolshevik tradition within the wider European tradition.

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E.A. REES is Professor of East European History at the European University Institute, Florence. He studied at the University of York and completed his PhD at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. He taught political science at the University of Keele, and Russian/Soviet history at the University of Birmingham.

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Book Title: Political Thought From Machiavelli to Stalin
Book Subtitle: Revolutionary Machiavellism
Authors: E. A. Rees
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505001
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3214-3Published: 12 March 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51577-6Published: 01 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50500-1Published: 12 March 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 324
Topics: Political History, History, general

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