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REVOLUTIONS
A Very Short Introduction
SECOND EDITION
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Names: Goldstone, Jack A., author.
Title: Revolutions : a very short introduction / Jack A. Goldstone.
Description: Second edition. | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] | “First
Edition published in 2014” — Title page verso.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023034385 (print) | LCCN 2023034386 (ebook) | ISBN 9780197666302
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Subjects: LCSH: Revolutions—History.
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To my wife, Gina, who makes everything possible
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 What is a revolution?
References
Further reading
Index
List of illustrations
5 White Army poster depicting Leon Trotsky as the deadly Red Menace of the
Russian Revolution, sitting on the wall of the Kremlin, 1919
Trotsky Archive Internet Photo Gallery
7 Leaders of the Cuban Revolution: Vilma Espin, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and
Celia Sanchez, 1957 89
Photo from Juventude Rebelde 1957