Book Reviews : The History of the Social Movement in France, 1789-1850. By LORENZ VON STEIN. Introduced, edited, and translated by Kaethe Mengelberg. (Totowa, New Jersey: Bedminster Press, 1964. Pp. 467. $10.00.)
| Published date | 01 March 1966 |
| Date | 01 March 1966 |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296601900162 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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independence
is
not
yet
dead.
The
authors,
who
have
closely
followed
and
inves-
tigated
the
events,
have
dredged
up
the
information
for
their
story
from
documents,
the
intermittent
leaflets
and
papers
preserved
from
the
days
of
the
underground,
emigr6
publications,
and
the
memories
of
survivors
in
the
West.
It
is
related
in
detail,
including
a
brief
survey
of
Lithuania
down
through
the
interwar
period,
the
various
periods
of
partisan
revolt
during
and
after
World
War
II,
and
the
Soviet
political,
economic,
and
cultural
policies.
The
chapters
on
the
partisan
activities
and
the
communist
party
are
particularly
valuable.
Unfortunately
some
of
the
evidence
is
of
doubtful
quality
and
is
used
indiscriminately
without
analysis.
Nevertheless,
it
is
valuable
to
have
written
down
what
is
known
before
some
of
the
material
disappears.
In
spite
of
some
looseness
in
the
use
of
evidence
and
the natural
bias
of
the
authors,
the
propaganda
has
been
kept
at
a
minimum,
the
facts
are
presented
in
straight-
forward
manner,
and
the
shortsightedness
and
weaknesses
of
some
of
the
Lithuanian
participants
are
not
overlooked.
But
through
the
long
struggle
the
dogged
heroism
and
stubbornness
of
a
large
portion
of
the
people
is
clearly
evident.
With
this
deter-
mination
it
is
not
surprising
that
the
dream
of
independence
even
in
Soviet
Lithuania
survived
Stalinism
and
has
begun
gradually
to
reassert
itself
in
a
new
guise.
It
all
adds
up
to
more
evidence
that
the
Soviets
are
still
a
long
way
from
solving
their
nationality
problem.
DAVID
T.
CATTELL
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles
The
History
of
the
Social
Movement
in
France, 1789-1850.
By
LORENZ
VON
STEIN.
Introduced,
edited,
and
translated
by
Kaethe
Mengelberg.
(Totowa,
New
Jersey:
Bedminster
Press,
1964.
Pp. 467.
$10.00.)
This
is
the
first
English
translation
of
the
greater
part
of
an
original
and
path-
breaking
work
which
appeared
in
German
in
its
final
form
in
1850.
It
is
unlikely
that
most
American
political
scientists
have
even
been
aware
of
it.
Its
perspectives
and
style
of
analysis,
like
those
of
Marx
and
Proudhon
if
certain
of
their
more
striking
observations
be
not
included,
were
not
particularly
relevant
to
American
political
or
social
conditions
or
to
the
ideals
and
interests
of
American
social
scientists
throughout
most
of
the
last
hundred
years.
They
are
probably
still
not
entirely
relevant.
Yet,
as
is
generally
recognized
in
regard
to
Marx
if
one
avoids
the
various
forms
of
disciple-
ship
some
Marxists
have
fallen
into,
there
can
no
longer
be
any
doubt
that
the
insights
and
careful
thinking
of
the
major
social
theorists
of
nineteenth-century
Europe,
though
not
sufficient,
can
greatly
assist
us
in
understanding
the
conditions
and
problems
of
our
time
and
place
as
well
as
theirs.
Reading
this
work
has
convinced
me
that
Lorenz
von
Stein
deserves
such
appre-
ciation.
This
history
of
social
and
political
developments
in
France
from
the
end
of
the
eighteenth
to
the
middle
of
the
nineteenth
century,
accompanied
by
a
running
analysis
and
commentary,
and
prefaced
with
a
theoretical
discussion
of
society,
its
&dquo;dynamic
laws,&dquo;
and
its
relation
to
the
state,
abounds
with
pertinent
information,
striking
insights,
and
systematic
analysis
of
causes,
relationships,
motives,
and
pur-
poses.
A
brief
review
can
hardly
do
justice
to
the
extensive,
if
somewhat
repetitive
and
verbose
argument,
but
I
found
of
great
interest
the
treatment
of
the
relation
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