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Author_Michael Braddick
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Blazing
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Lenin
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Oxford
Revolution
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Product details
- ISBN 9781836743583
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Born in 1912, Christopher Hill was one of the foremost historians of his generation. Abandoning the respectable provincial Methodism of his youth, Hill embraced Marxism and pursued a celebrated intellectual career. His early enthusiasm as a member of the Communist Party eventually gave way to disillusionment with its doctrinaire practices. Hill embodied the conflicts and challenges of the postwar decades. Michael Braddick's astute biography situates Hill's life and work in the proper historical context, bringing him alive for twenty-first-century readers.
Michael Braddick is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, having previously worked at the University of Sheffield. He has held academic positions and visiting Fellowships in the United States, Australia, France, and Germany. He has written extensively on state formation, the English Revolution and political engagement and agency in early modern England, Ireland and the British Atlantic. His books include The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution, God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars, and A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done.
