Morris Slavin (1913–2006) was a scholar of the French Revolution, a

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, and an early American

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activist between the 1930s and 1950s. Slavin was born in

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but lived primarily in

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. Slavin taught for many years at

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and his books made a significant contribution to the understanding of the French Revolution in the "history from below" style established by

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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, 1996

Review of Russian Trotskyist memoir, 1997

Review of book on French Revolution in Russian intellectual life, 1997

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