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The French Revolution: Marxism versus revisionism. Issue 80 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM, quarterly journal of the Socialist Workers Party (Britain) Published September 1998 Copyright © International Socialism Autumn 1998 A review of G Kates (ed), The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies (Routledge, 1997), £14.99 By Paul McGarr 'One's stance on the French Revolution inevitably reveals much about one's deepest ideological and political convictions'.1 Gary Kates' comment, in his introduction to this collection of essays on the 1789 French Revolution, is certainly correct-though his claim is true of other great revolutions too.

The French Revolution: Marxism versus revisionism

Even as the French Revolution was being fought out 200 years ago it was the subject of fierce arguments, which were centrally about the protagonists' own views on contemporary politics. Gp3_historyhlsl2.pdf (application/pdf Object) IB History. IB History Transform your history classroom.

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