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The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries by Forrest D. Colburn is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries about?
In the aftermath of World War II, a surprisingly large number of poor countries were upset by revolution: Vietnam, China, Cuba, Algeria, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Afghanistan, Iran, and Nicaragua. Revolutionaries in these geographically and culturally disparate countries came to power through different routes, but once in power they had remarkably similar ideas about how to remake their states and societies. In this passionate analysis of the course of these revolutions, Forrest Colburn suggests that shared institutional and policy choices of revolutionary elites arose from a fashionable political imagination. <p>Paradoxically, in an era marked by the demise of European colonialism, it was Europeans mainly Marx, Engels, and Lenin who supplied the vision of what could replace colonialism. Colburn traces the diffusion of this intoxicating political imagination not to the Soviet Union, but instead to Western Europe and North America, where socialism was rarely more than political fantasy. In Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, this imagination inspired revolution, but more importantly led to sadly flawed ideas about how to eliminate poverty and inequality.
Who reads The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Forrest D. Colburn
- Publisher
- Association, Pleasant Hills Community Church.
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691036762
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14