Democracy Denied, 1905-1915

Download or read book Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 written by Charles KURZMAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single angle of this story, covering all six cases by examining newspaper accounts, memoirs, and government reports.