Eric Hobsbawm: “I am considering a question that has been surprisingly left unattended: not the history of the French Revolution as such, but the history of its comprehension and interpretation, its influence on the events of the history of the 19th and 20th centuries... In this book I touch upon three aspects of retrospective analysis. First, I view the French Revolution as a bourgeois revolution, in fact in a sense as a prototype of bourgeois revolutions. I then consider it as a model for subsequent revolutions, primarily social revolutions, for those who sought to carry out these revolutions. Finally, I consider the various political positions regarding the revolution and their influence on those who wrote and are writing its history. Hobsbawm E. Echo of the Marseillaise. – M., “Inter-Verso”, 1991. – 272 p.