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BOOK III - THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ANCESTRAL INFLUENCES AND REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES - CHAPTER I. THE LAST CONVULSIONS OF ANARCHY. THE DIRECTORY 1. Psychology of the Directory 2. Despotic Government of the Directory. Recrudescence of the Terror 3. The Advent of Bonaparte 4. Causes of the Duration of the Revolution - CHAPTER II. THE RESTORATION OF ORDER. THE CONSULAR REPUBLIC 1. How the work of the Revolution was confirmed by the Consulate 2. The re-organisation of France by the Consulate 3. Psychological elements which determined the success of the work of the Consulate - CHAPTER III. POLITICAL RESULTS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN TRADITIONS AND THE REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES DURING THE LAST CENTURY 1. The psychological causes of the continued Revolutionary Movements to which France has been subject 2. Summary of a century's Revolutionary Movements in France - PART III - THE RECENT EVOLUTION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES - CHAPTER I. THE PROGRESS OF DEMOCRATIC BELIEFS SINCE THE REVOLUTION 1. Gradual propagation of Democratic Ideas after the Revolution 2. The unequal influence of the three fundamental principles of the Revolution 3. The Democracy of the ``Intellectuals'' and Popular Democracy 4. Natural Inequalities and Democratic Equalisation - CHAPTER II. THE RESULTS OF DEMOCRATIC EVOLUTION 1. The influence upon social evolution of theories of no rational value 2. The Jacobin Spirit and the Mentality created by Democratic Beliefs 3. Universal Suffrage and its representatives 4. The craving for Reforms 5. Social distinctions in Democracies and Democratic Ideas in various countries - CHAPTER III. THE NEW FORMS OF DEMOCRATIC BELIEF 1. The conflict between Capital and Labour 2. The evolution of the Working Classes and the Syndicalist Movement 3. Why certain modern Democratic Governments are gradually being transformed into Governments by Administrative Castes - CONCLUSIONS - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTION - INTRODUCTION - THE REVISION OF HISTORY
PART I - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ELEMENTS OF REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS - BOOK I - GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF REVOLUTIONS - CHAPTER I - SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS
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The book opens a wide‑angle view of how collective and individual minds react when societies are turned upside down. It sorts revolutions into scientific, political and religious types, then examines how governments stumble or adapt and how ordinary citizens perceive and shape the turmoil. By tracing the psychological underpinnings of each phase, the author shows why some upheavals become lasting transformations while others fizzle out.
A large part of the study is devoted to the mental patterns that surface in crowds, clubs and legislative assemblies, from the mystic and Jacobin temperaments to the more criminal or revolutionary instincts. Using the French Revolution as a detailed example, the work explores how ideas spread, how emotions swell in assemblies, and what drives the often violent drive for change. Listeners will come away with a clearer picture of the invisible forces that push societies toward revolt and how those forces continue to echo in modern movements.
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en
Duration
~8 hours (485K characters)
Release date
1996-02-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Gustave Le Bon
1841–1931
Best remembered for exploring how people behave in crowds, he wrote one of the classic early books of social psychology. Trained as a physician, he ranged widely across anthropology, travel writing, and the study of civilizations before his ideas on mass behavior made him famous.
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