From mobilization to revolution

The famous American historical sociologist Charles Tilly considers the problems of collective action, illustrating his theoretical calculations, a conceptual apparatus and models with a variety of historical and modern examples. Highlighting the four intellectual traditions of the study of collective action, dating back to Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Milly, Tilly develops his own tradition synthesizing Marx, Mill and Weber, causal and targeted approaches to explaining the collective action, organizational and resource approaches, the model of the political system and the model of the collective choice. It shows how historical macro -processes - commercialization, urbanization, industrialization, state construction, democratization, development of communication technologies - change the repertoire and forms of collective action beyond recognition, transforming the interests and organizational potential of its participants along with macrostructures that give opportunities and at the same time limiting them. The book also presents the original theory of revolution as a special form of violent collective action.
The publication is addressed to sociologists, historians, political scientists, philosophers