War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that\'s grown increasingly apparent in recent years.
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It\'s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or Fran ois Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an "illness" originating with the French Revolution.
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that\'s grown increasingly apparent in recent years