Some 80 years ago, the American historian, Crane Brinton, wrote The Anatomy of Revolution in which he sought to plot the stages of popular revolts. In fact, he attempted to identify the pattern of the French Revolution (1789), and add comments about Britain’s ‘Glorious Revolution’ (1688), the American Revolution (1776) and the Bolshevik Revolution in… Continue reading “The Desertion of the Intellectuals?”