Morris Slavin (1913–2006) was a scholar of the
French Revolution, a
Marxist
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historian, and an early American
Trotskyist activist between the 1930s and 1950s. Slavin was born in
Kiev
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but lived primarily in
Youngstown
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,
Ohio. Slavin taught for many years at
Youngstown State University and his books made a significant contribution to the understanding of the French Revolution in the "history from below" style established by
Albert Soboul.
Books
* ''The French Revolution in Miniature: Section Droits-de-L'Homme, 1789-1795,'' Princeton, 1984.
''The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde'' Harvard, 1986.
* ''The Hébertistes to the Guillotine: Anatomy of a "Conspiracy" in Revolutionary France,'' Louisiana State, 1994.
* ''The Left and the French Revolution,'' Humanities, 1995.
Collections
''Bourgeois, Sans-Culottes, and Other Frenchmen,'' ed. with Agnes M. Smith Wilfrid Laurier University, 1981.
* ''Reflections at the End of a Century,'' ed. with Louis Pastouras, Youngstown State, 2002.
Essays
* "The Heroic Individual and His Milieu," in ''Debating Marx,'' ed. Louis Pastouras, EmText, 1994.
* "Robespierre and the Insurrection of 31 May - 2 June 1793," in ''Robespierre,'' ed. Colin Haydon and William Doyle, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Publications Available Online
Review-essay on studies of Lenin and Bolshevism, 1996Review of Russian Trotskyist memoir, 1997Review of book on French Revolution in Russian intellectual life, 1997
References
Further reading
* Boris Blick and Louis Pastouras, eds., ''Rebels Against the Old Order: Essays in Honor of Morris Slavin,'' Youngstown State, 1994.
External links
''Against the Current''''Perspectives'' (American Historical Association)
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1913 births
2006 deaths
Soviet emigrants to the United States
American Trotskyists
Historians of the French Revolution
20th-century American historians
American Marxist historians
American male non-fiction writers
Writers from Youngstown, Ohio
Historians from Ohio