What caused revolution among the last major monarchies of the modern period? Why were Louis XVI, Nicholas II and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi all overthrown and was this the result of their historical background or individual action? This powerful and original book is the first comparative study of the implosion of the monarchical regimes in Bourbon France, Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran. Seeking to understand fully the causes and timing of the French, Russian and Iranian revolutions, Shakibi examines the complex interaction between the personality and behavior of the monarchs and the different problems faced by their regimes which turned a potentially revolutionary situation into the revolutions which engulfed France in the eighteenth century, Russia in 1917 and Iran in 1978-8. Drawing on a huge amount of primary and archival research throughout the world, Revolutions and the Collapse of the Monarchy argues that it is human agency which often provides the vital spark which produces revolution. An ambitious and important counter-blast to traditional theories of revolution.
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Zhand Shakibi is a Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the University of London. He has written widely on the modern history and political ideas of Europe, Russia, the Middle East and the Caucasus and taught and researched at universities in Iran, Russia, Uzbekistean, the USA and Britain.
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Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, Nicholas II, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shahanshah of Iran and Light of the Aryans, have gone down in history as ill-fated men destined to watch helplessly as a revolutionary wav Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ministerial unity, monarchical ideology, horizontal governance, unified ministry, highest servants, controleur general, last shah, social modernisation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mohammad Reza, State Council, Third Estate, Ancien Regime, Assembly of Notables, Far East, National Front, Bourbon France, Peter the Great, Parlement of Paris, Maison du Roi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Pahlavi Iran, French Revolution, White Revolution, Reza Khan, First World War, Factory Inspectorate, Sun King, Grain War, Fundamental Laws, Whilst Nicholas, Provisional Government, Iranian Revolution, Unlike Nicholas Browse Sample Pages:
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Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, Nicholas II, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shahanshah of Iran and Light of the Aryans, have gone down in history as ill-fated men destined to watch helplessly as a revolutionary wav Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ministerial unity, monarchical ideology, horizontal governance, unified ministry, highest servants, controleur general, last shah, social modernisation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mohammad Reza, State Council, Third Estate, Ancien Regime, Assembly of Notables, Far East, National Front, Bourbon France, Peter the Great, Parlement of Paris, Maison du Roi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Pahlavi Iran, French Revolution, White Revolution, Reza Khan, First World War, Factory Inspectorate, Sun King, Grain War, Fundamental Laws, Whilst Nicholas, Provisional Government, Iranian Revolution, Unlike Nicholas Browse Sample Pages:
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