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The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type

Bruce Mazlish
Reviewed by Robert Gilpin
July 1976
The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type
Bruce Mazlish
Basic Books
1976
261 pp.
$11.95
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The theme of this provocative psycho-history is that the needs of modernizing revolutions have thrust to the fore a special kind of modern political type, the revolutionary ascetic: Cromwell, Robespierre, Lenin, and Mao.

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