榮獲2020 ALLAN SHARLIN MEMORIAL AWARD 1969年，文革開始後僅三年，全國已深陷派系林立、權鬥不斷的失序之中，其範圍之廣、影響之深遠超黨政高層的預計。全國革命委員會的成立加上軍事介入，為何無助重塑秩序，反而推動了運動內部的派別對立，令局勢逐漸失控？為解釋這場「謎一般的動亂」，本書從全國動員談起，透過系統梳理2,246個省、市、縣的地方志檔案，考察3.4萬起事件，逐步揭示文革的造反步伐、黨政體系的崩潰、派系身分的形成和其後所引發的鬥爭，以至地區衝突的升級和對策，剖析文革集體行動的起因、發展過程和後果。本書提出在當時瞬息萬變的政治和社會環境下，集體行動由機關幹部發起、「自內而外」擊潰政治秩序，個體的選擇和政策的驟變促使各方派系形成及演變。作者研究一方面修正了過去造反是以學生和工人階級主導、「自下而上」破壞秩序的傳統論述，另一方面「展現了歷史的偶然性、人類的不確定性和對『政治利益』不斷改變的定義」。 ---------------------- 魏昂德分析了一個烏托邦式的政治構想如何造成分裂，繼而激起人類對權力的渴望，引發難以想像的連鎖反應和意想不到的沉重後果，淪以悲劇作結。《失序的造反》不僅講述了中國現代歷史上最重要的事件之一，最終更揭示了現代化進程的陰暗面。—趙鼎新，浙江大學社會學系教授、系主任 魏昂德是當今文化大革命的權威闡釋者之一。本書採用極其豐富的地方資料，堪稱嚴謹細緻的傑作，將改變文革研究的圖景、激發學界的進一步討論。—拉納．米特（ Rana Mitter），哈佛大學肯尼迪政治學院教授 《失序的造反》為文革研究的一部上乘之作，在該段歷史仍然模糊不清的情況下，魏昂德依托大量新數據和案例，幫助讀者更好地理解群眾派系政治的本質，對討論中國語境下的抗爭政治做出了重大貢獻。—嚴飛，清華大學社會學系副教授
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