Author: Patrice Higonnet
July/August 2012
Foreign Affairs
Democratic revolutionaries always confront the same problem: how to replace the old order without replicating its flaws. The French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre's failure to resolve that dilemma led to his own demise on the guillotine. But a new biography reveals that today's radicals might learn from Robespierre's mistakes.
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