The Revolutionary Organisation by Erik Ree

The Revolutionary Organisation by Erik Ree

This is a comprehensive study of the armed-struggle revolutionary organisation. Global in scope, it covers the past two centuries and all main ideological traditions. The revolutionary organisation is grasped as an apparatus, a community, and an instrument of physical force.

"Revolutionary organisations have shaped our world—think of the Bolsheviks, the African National Congress, or the TalibanYet there is no comprehensive study of what they are and how they function, as distinct formations. Erik van Ree’s brilliant new book fills that gap, transforming our understanding of how revolutionaries have crafted their sense of identity. In an extraordinary work of breadth, erudition, and insight, van Ree demonstrates that armed-struggle revolutionary organizations find definition and emotional community in their preparedness to take and retain power through violent means, acting according to their own standards of propriety and sanctity."
– James Ryan, Reader (associate professor) in Modern European History, Cardiff University, and author of Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence (2012)

"This study of violent revolutionary organizations and revolutionaries over several centuries and continents is remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis. Based upon a deep reading of primary and secondary literature, it is original and challenging, as we have come to expect from Erik van Ree’s brilliant and penetrating scholarship. This is a work of genuine world history that will be essential reading for historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and students of international terrorism."
– Ian D. Thatcher, Professor in History, Ulster University

"Sometimes someone writes a book that makes us wonder why it wasn’t written sooner. The Revolutionary Organisation is such a book. A global account of one of the great world-making forces of the modern era, it’s a massive undertaking, but Erik van Ree pulls it off beautifully, perhaps above all because his succinct fusion of history and sociology so successfully exposes for us the singular ethos of revolutionaries and their epic lives across great swaths of space and time. Cohesive in scope, convincing in its argumentation, and extremely clear in its writing, The Revolutionary Organisation is immensely useful for scholars of political violence, but also directly engaging for all readers interested in the history of revolutionary movements and moments."
– Claudia Verhoeven, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University, and author of The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism (2011) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism (2022)

Erik van Ree, Ph.D. (1988), University of Amsterdam, is Research Associate at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. He has written numerous journal articles, and among his earlier books are The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin (2002) and Boundaries of Utopia – Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin (2015).

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ISBN 13	9789004737211
ISBN 10	9004737219
Title	The Revolutionary Organisation
Author	Erik Ree
Series	Studies In Global Social History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Brill
Year published	2025-09-25
Number of pages	432
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