The Making of the Great Revolutions - Dominic Alexander

Revolutions are emphatically the stories of actions taken by the mass of people. The Great Revolutions happened when the people least often connected to high politics made decisive moves, from the women and apprentices in London in 1641, to the factory workers of Petrograd in 1917.

Too often, the startling reality of the power of mass actions is hidden behind narratives which emphasise a few leading individuals, or which take an Olympian view of the economic and ideological changes behind events.

This book seeks to show how the events of the Great Revolutions in England, America, France and Russia were driven from below. These were times when ordinary people were able to make their own history.

‘Alexander combines the historian’s eagle-eye for informative detail and cool analysis with the practical street-level experience of a longstanding community activist.’ – Rachel Holmes

‘Dominic Alexander gifts us with a timely, succinct, well-researched, wonderfully readable survey of interwoven political and social revolutions from England, France, North America, and Russia.’ – Paul Le Blanc