Mao’s Little Red Book

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Genealogies of Revolution
6. Did the English Have a Script for Revolution in the Seventeenth Century? 25
7. God’s Revolutions 41
8. Every Great Revolution Is a Civil War 57
9. Part II: Writing the Modern Revolutionary Script
10. Revolutionizing Revolution 71
11. Constitutionalism 103
12. From Constitutional to Permanent Revolution 118
13. Scripting the French Revolution, Inventing the Terror 131
14. The Antislavery Script 148
15. Part III: Rescripting the Revolution
16. Scripting the German Revolution 169
17. Reading and Repeating the Revolutionary Script 181
18. “Une Révolution Vraiment Scientifique” 199
19. Scripting the Russian Revolution 213
20. Part IV: Revolutionary Projections
21. You Say You Want a Revolution 231
22. Mao’s Little Red Book 251
23. The Reel, Real and Hyper-Real Revolution 267
24. Writing on the Wall 287
25. Scripting a Revolution 307
26. The Multiple Scripts of the Arab Revolutions 325
27. Afterword 345
28. Contributors 355
29. Notes 361
30. Index 423