Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Zenonas Norkus -- Copyright page / Zenonas Norkus -- Acknowledgements / Zenonas Norkus -- List of Figures and Tables / Zenonas Norkus -- Abbreviations / Zenonas Norkus -- Introduction / Zenonas Norkus -- Chapter 1 Theorising Modern Social Restorations: Received Work / Zenonas Norkus -- Chapter 2 The Rise and Collapse of Post-Revolutionary Empires: Great Modern Revolutions in Comparison / Zenonas Norkus -- Chapter 3 Post-Napoleonic and Post-Communist Domestic Restorations and Rehabilitations in Comparison / Zenonas Norkus -- Chapter 4 Do Progressive Social Restorations Exist? / Zenonas Norkus -- Conclusion / Zenonas Norkus -- Back Matter -- References / Zenonas Norkus -- Index / Zenonas Norkus.

‘The revolutions of 1989’ remains the standard term used to describe the onset of post-commununist transformations more than thirty years ago. Zenonas Norkus proposes a completely new perspective, theorising them as the next wave of modern social restorations, starting with the post-Napoleonic restorations in 1815. A comparison of the 1789 French and 1917 Russian revolutions was seminal for the rise of comparative historical and sociological research on modern revolutions. The book extends and supplements the sociology of modern revolutions by the first systematic outline of the sociology of modern social restorations grounded in a comparison of post-Napoleonic and post-communist restorations.

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