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has presented an annual series of lectures on concepts or events in social and political spheres which combine past importance and contemporary intellectual relevance. The first series of lectures, presented in 1970 as the University Lectures for that year, was published under the title A World in Revolution? In that series, six historians and social theorists explored the nature and impact of revolutionary theory, revolutionary ideology and actual revolutions since the Great French Revolution of 1789. The second series, published under the title Paradigm for Revo lution?: The Paris Commune 1871-1971, commemorated that short-lived but in many respects heroic revolt and considered its nature and historical significance. The lectures, and the books incorporating those lectures, have met with a gratifying response; A World in Revolution? is already in its third printing.In July and August 1972 the History of Ideas Unit took ad vantage of the presence of three very distinguished Visiting Fellows from overseas working in the Unit -

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