TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roper,Brian S.
TI  - The history of democracy: a Marxist interpretation 
SN  - 9780745331898 (pbk.)
U1  - 321.809 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London 
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Marxist
N1  - MRP by Saheli Roychoudhury; Origins: democracy in the ancient Greek world --Democracy suppressed: the Roman republic and empire -- The early Middle Ages and the transition from feudalism to capitalism -- The English Revolution and parliamentary democracy -- The American Revolution and constitutional redefinition of democracy -- The revolutionary revival of democracy in France -- The revolutions of 1848-49 -- Capitalist expansion, globalisation and democratisation -- The Marxist critique of capitalism and representative democracy -- Precursors of socialist participatory democracy: the Paris Commune 1871 and Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917
N2  - Brian Roper refreshes our understanding of democracy using a Marxist theoretical framework. He traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy in Europe and North America, through to the global spread of democracy during the past century
ER  -