The Revolutionary Ascetic: Evolution of a Political Type (Paperback, Revised)

Preface to the Transaction Edition

Preface

PART ONE: THEORY AND PRACTICE

1 Introduction
2 The Godlike Legislator
3 Displaced Libido and Asceticism: Theory and Function

PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL STAGES

4 The Religious Stages
5 The Puritan Revolution and Cromwell
6 The French Revolution and Robespierre
7 From Legislator to Bolshevik: Robespierre to Lenin

PART THREE: TWO CASE STUDIES

8 Lenin
9 Mao Tse-tung
10 Conclusion

Notes

Index