Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- PART 1 -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Revolutionary Organisations -- 2 Revolution and Modernity -- 3 Definitions -- 4 Problems of Definition -- 5 Three Great Traditions -- 6 Making Revolution: Spontaneous and Planned Revolutions -- 7 Methodology -- 8 Subjectivity, Sources -- 2 The Revolutionary Organisation -- 1 Apparatus, Emotional Community, Instrument of Physical Force -- 2 Apparatus -- 3 Emotional Community -- 4 Instrument of Physical Force -- 5 The Life-and-Death Struggle -- PART 2 -- Professional Revolutionaries -- 3 Revolutionary Commitment -- 1 Social Injustice and Humiliation -- 2 Humiliated Nation. Humiliated Race -- 3 Gender: Humiliation and the Independent Life -- 4 Heroes Old and New -- 5 Heroic Self-Sculpting -- 6 The Life of Greatness -- 7 Conversion -- 8 The Criminal Element -- 9 Commitment -- 4 Professional Revolutionaries -- 1 Revolution as Skill -- 2 Revolution as Secrecy -- 3 Revolution on Salary -- 4 Revolutionary Criminality -- 5 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: Exiles versus Undergrounders -- 6 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: the Leader-Centred Organisation -- 7 Leadership and Gender -- 5 Revolutionary Intelligentsia, Revolutionary Margin -- 1 Revolutionary Social Mobility -- 2 Drifters -- 3 The Family Uprooted -- 4 International Armed Solidarity -- 5 Total Immobility -- 5.1 Revolutionary Bohemia -- 6 Communal Living -- 7 The Mainstream (Or Not-So-Mainstream) Lifestyle -- 8 The Ascetic-Puritanical Lifestyle -- 9 The Libertine Lifestyle -- 6 Emotional Community -- 1 The Revolutionary Personality -- 2 Battle -- 3 The Idea -- 4 Collective Study -- 5 Ritual -- 6 Initiation Ceremonies, the Oath -- 7 Ceremonies of Periodic Meeting, Martyr Rituals -- 8 Modes of Address and Dress Codes -- 9 Revolutionary Symbolism -- 7 Instrument of Physical Force -- 1 Warfare and Terrorism -- 2 Legitimation: Ends and Means -- 3 A Job to Be Done, Concern, Euphoria, Massacre Fantasies -- 4 Violence as Purification -- 5 Revolutionary Heroism, Embedded Heroism -- 6 Heroic Self-Understanding, Heroic Poetry -- 7 Heroic Propaganda, Heroic Mobilisation -- 8 Revolutionary Heroines -- 9 New Times -- PART 3 -- Apparatus -- 8 Professional-Revolutionary Philosophies: the Organisation -- 1 The Pyramid -- 2 Hierarchy No, Organisation Yes -- 3 The Pyramid Perfected -- 4 The Leader -- 5 From Single Leader to ‘Non-Organisation’ -- 6 Emir, Apparatus, Warriors -- 7 Conclusion -- 9 The Revolutionary Organisation: Beginnings -- 1 The Army Problem -- 2 Bands, Committees, Secret Societies, Religious Congregations -- 3 Clubs and Parties -- 4 Volunteer Armies -- 5 Time of Transition -- 6 The Rise of the Party in Arms -- 10 The Politico-Military Organisation -- 1 Politico-Military Secret Societies -- 2 Communist Parties in Arms -- 3 Parties in Arms: Fascism -- 4 Parties in Arms: Revolutionary Nationalism -- 5 The Volunteer Army Pyramid -- 6 Volunteer Army Two-Branchism -- 7 Islamist Volunteer Armies -- 8 Committees of Military Officers -- 9 Terrorist Army Fractions -- 10 The Politico-Military Control System -- 11 Military Rebellions -- 12 Supranational Organisation -- 11 Revolutionary Etatisation -- 1 Revolutionary Etatisation: Process -- 2 Revolutionary Etatisation: Ideology -- 3 The Nineteenth Century -- 4 Modes of Etatisation -- 5 Rural Guerrillas: State Construction -- 6 Rural Guerrillas: the Social Contract -- 7 Urban Insurrection -- 8 Urban Guerrillas -- Conclusion: Final Thoughts on Revolutionary Organisation and Violence -- 1 The Armed-Struggle Ethos -- 2 Revolution as War -- 3 The Future of Armed Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- PART 1 -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Revolutionary Organisations -- 2 Revolution and Modernity -- 3 Definitions -- 4 Problems of Definition -- 5 Three Great Traditions -- 6 Making Revolution: Spontaneous and Planned Revolutions -- 7 Methodology -- 8 Subjectivity, Sources -- 2 The Revolutionary Organisation -- 1 Apparatus, Emotional Community, Instrument of Physical Force -- 2 Apparatus -- 3 Emotional Community -- 4 Instrument of Physical Force -- 5 The Life-and-Death Struggle -- PART 2 -- Professional Revolutionaries -- 3 Revolutionary Commitment -- 1 Social Injustice and Humiliation -- 2 Humiliated Nation. Humiliated Race -- 3 Gender: Humiliation and the Independent Life -- 4 Heroes Old and New -- 5 Heroic Self-Sculpting -- 6 The Life of Greatness -- 7 Conversion -- 8 The Criminal Element -- 9 Commitment -- 4 Professional Revolutionaries -- 1 Revolution as Skill -- 2 Revolution as Secrecy -- 3 Revolution on Salary -- 4 Revolutionary Criminality -- 5 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: Exiles versus Undergrounders -- 6 Bureaucracies in Permanent Crisis: the Leader-Centred Organisation -- 7 Leadership and Gender -- 5 Revolutionary Intelligentsia, Revolutionary Margin -- 1 Revolutionary Social Mobility -- 2 Drifters -- 3 The Family Uprooted -- 4 International Armed Solidarity -- 5 Total Immobility -- 5.1 Revolutionary Bohemia -- 6 Communal Living -- 7 The Mainstream (Or Not-So-Mainstream) Lifestyle -- 8 The Ascetic-Puritanical Lifestyle -- 9 The Libertine Lifestyle -- 6 Emotional Community -- 1 The Revolutionary Personality -- 2 Battle -- 3 The Idea -- 4 Collective Study -- 5 Ritual -- 6 Initiation Ceremonies, the Oath -- 7 Ceremonies of Periodic Meeting, Martyr Rituals -- 8 Modes of Address and Dress Codes -- 9 Revolutionary Symbolism -- 7 Instrument of Physical Force -- 1 Warfare and Terrorism -- 2 Legitimation: Ends and Means -- 3 A Job to Be Done, Concern, Euphoria, Massacre Fantasies -- 4 Violence as Purification -- 5 Revolutionary Heroism, Embedded Heroism -- 6 Heroic Self-Understanding, Heroic Poetry -- 7 Heroic Propaganda, Heroic Mobilisation -- 8 Revolutionary Heroines -- 9 New Times -- PART 3 -- Apparatus -- 8 Professional-Revolutionary Philosophies: the Organisation -- 1 The Pyramid -- 2 Hierarchy No, Organisation Yes -- 3 The Pyramid Perfected -- 4 The Leader -- 5 From Single Leader to ‘Non-Organisation’ -- 6 Emir, Apparatus, Warriors -- 7 Conclusion -- 9 The Revolutionary Organisation: Beginnings -- 1 The Army Problem -- 2 Bands, Committees, Secret Societies, Religious Congregations -- 3 Clubs and Parties -- 4 Volunteer Armies -- 5 Time of Transition -- 6 The Rise of the Party in Arms -- 10 The Politico-Military Organisation -- 1 Politico-Military Secret Societies -- 2 Communist Parties in Arms -- 3 Parties in Arms: Fascism -- 4 Parties in Arms: Revolutionary Nationalism -- 5 The Volunteer Army Pyramid -- 6 Volunteer Army Two-Branchism -- 7 Islamist Volunteer Armies -- 8 Committees of Military Officers -- 9 Terrorist Army Fractions -- 10 The Politico-Military Control System -- 11 Military Rebellions -- 12 Supranational Organisation -- 11 Revolutionary Etatisation -- 1 Revolutionary Etatisation: Process -- 2 Revolutionary Etatisation: Ideology -- 3 The Nineteenth Century -- 4 Modes of Etatisation -- 5 Rural Guerrillas: State Construction -- 6 Rural Guerrillas: the Social Contract -- 7 Urban Insurrection -- 8 Urban Guerrillas -- Conclusion: Final Thoughts on Revolutionary Organisation and Violence -- 1 The Armed-Struggle Ethos -- 2 Revolution as War -- 3 The Future of Armed Revolution -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the armed-struggle revolutionary organisation. The Revolutionary Organisation covers the period from the late 18th century to the present, is global in scope, and discusses organisations inspired by all main ideological traditions: communist, anti-colonialist, nationalist, democratic, Islamist, fascist, and white supremacist. The condition of life-and-death struggle with the state imposes similar patterns of operation upon these organisations, irrespective of their ideological inclinations. This work interprets armed-struggle revolutionary organisations as hybrids of three orientations: an apparatus of professional revolutionaries; an emotional community sustained by ideology, battle comradeship, and ritual; and an instrument of physical force nurturing an heroic organisational ethos.

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