The Spectre of Babeuf

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The Spectre of Babeuf is written by Ian H. Birchall and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349255998 (ISBN 10) and 9781349255993 (ISBN 13).

This study of Babeuf as a political thinker, based on an analysis of his extensive writings, and on scholarship unavailable in English, shows him to be a major precursor of the modern revolutionary socialist tradition. The first part traces Babeuf's political evolution in the context of the French Revolution; the second examines his changing reputation among subsequent historians. The final section assesses the originality of his thought, showing him to be neither a Jacobin nor a Utopian.