Reflections on the Impact of the French Revolution

This book is an English version of La sfirsit de ciclu, a series of essays on the consequences of the French Revolution for 19th and 20th century culture and civilisation, especially that of the Romanian lands. This translation, the first of Zub's remarkable contributions to historical scholarship to appear in English, makes available to an international audience his analysis of the complexity of problems initiated by the French Revolution (as they have played out over the last two centuries), of the prophetic perceptions of the Revolution elaborated by Alexis de Tocqueville, and of the impact of the 'moment of 1789' and de Tocqueville on Romanian culture. The book is edited by Professor Paul E Michelson, an American specialist on nineteenth century Romanian history and a scholar intimately familiar with Romanian historiography, who also provides an introduction.

Alexandru Zub is currently director of the A.D. Xenopol Institute of History in Iasi.