https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Russia-s-Power-Diagonal https://booksandideas.net/Russia-s-Power-Diagonal 2024-10-24T09:08:00Z text/html en Yauheni Kryzhanouski International Russia freedom French Terror fear dictatorship Poutine Cairn.info <p>‘Prevent disorder' is the motto of Russian power, justifying all forms of repression and establishing a partly decentralized system of domination through fear at the hands of local mobs.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Reevaluating-Terror-in-the-French-Revolution https://booksandideas.net/Reevaluating-Terror-in-the-French-Revolution 2019-01-28T07:00:00Z text/html en Charles Walton History revolution utopia freedom French Revolution war French Terror Books and ideas originals civil war <p>Was the French Revolution bound to become authoritarian? Do revolutionary ideologies always lead to violence? Annie Jourdan's book reconfigures mainstream narratives of the Revolution and provides an alternative interpretation of the ‘Reign of Terror'.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Robespierre-the-Indecisive https://booksandideas.net/Robespierre-the-Indecisive 2017-05-18T07:00:00Z text/html en Annie Jourdan History French Revolution Florence Gould Foundation French Terror Jacobins <p>Was the “Terror” Robespierre's fault? His name alone has symbolised revolutionary tragedies for two centuries now. Nonetheless, it is a whole different protagonist, once cautious, discreet and indecisive, that the historian, Jean-Clément Martin, invites us to rediscover.</p>