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“France was more fertile than Britain in producing new Socialist theories and movements, though they bore less concrete results in France than in Britain”. Comment.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

The nineteenth century's socialist ferment split neatly along a Channel divide: France supplied the theories, Britain supplied the institutions that survived them.

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  • The Revolutionary Seedbed: Why France Produced the Theories
  • Babeuf: From Revolutionary Rhetoric to a Working Model
  • The Utopian Socialists: A Profusion of Rival Blueprints
  • 1848 and the Commune: Theory Tested, Not Institutionalized
  • Why France's Fertility Bore Comparatively Little Fruit
  • Britain's Comparative Barrenness of Theory, Fertility of Institutions
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