Fire in the Minds of Men

This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era.

Billington, James

Introduction BOOK I FOUNDATIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY FAITH: THE LATE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES I Incarnation 2 A Locus of Legitimacy 3 The Objects of Belief 4 The Occult Origins of Organization BOOK II THE DOMINANCE OF THE NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARIES: THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY 5 The Conspiratorial Constitutionalists (I8I5-25) 6 National vs. Social Revolution (I830-48) 7 The Evolutionary Alternative 8 Prophecy: The Emergence of an Intelligentsia 9 The Early Church (the 1840s) 10 Schism: Marx vs Proudhon, 11 The Magic Medium: Journalism 12 The Waning Revolutionary nationalism Book III The Rise of the Social Revolutionaries: The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 13 The Machine: German Social Democracy 14 Th Bomb: Russian Violence 15 Revolutionary Syndicalism 16 The Path to Power: Lenin 17 The Role of Women, Epilogue.