"Understanding the French Revolution" is a classic work by the outstanding historian Francois Furet (1927-1997). The revision of the traditional understanding of the revolution, the analysis of the main categories of historical understanding of the largest event in history made this meticulous analytical work truly a world bestseller. Repeated reprints and translations into many languages have always been accompanied by enormous reader and scientific interest. The book is published in Russian for the first time.

Contents: To the reader. The French Revolution is over. Three versions of the French Revolution. Revolutionary catechism. Tocqueville and the problem of the French Revolution. Augustin Cauchin: the theory of Jacobinism. Index of names.