States and Social Revolutions A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (OF FRANCE, RUSSIA, AND CHINA THEDA SKOCPOL Haroard Univers CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS ‘CAMBRIDGE LONDON NEW YORK — MELBOURNEiy he i Cambie iPr for Bill er ae fo fa Come en Pr 179 ‘ip fon op hn Ae Mga Pe Sconces tt on ney ong Clg Pein Da toseContents List of Teles ond Maps Preface Ineroducton 1. Explaining Socal Revolions:Akrntves to Exiting Theorie (A Strctural Perspective Intemational snd Wort-bstoial Contexts “The Peel Autonomy ofthe Sze A Comparative Hira Method ‘Why France, Rass, and China? Pare Gass of Socal Revaltons Fone, Rusia, and Chins 2. Old Regime Sates in Cis ‘Old Regine France: The Contradictions of ‘Bourbon Absolrsm Mancha Chinas Bom the Celestial Empire to the Fall ofthe Impenal Stern Imperial Rows: An Underdeeoped Gres Power Japan and Passi as Contrasts Agrarian Sercrares and Peasant Insertions Peasants Agast Seigneur inthe Pench Revaison ‘The Revolton of the Obshchinat: Peasant Radia i Rania ‘Two Couttrpints: The Absence of Peasant Reval In the Engh snd German Revoltions Peasant Incapacity and Gentry Valmet in China 1% » & ” s @ rH 9 m2. ue ns 40