Research On The Causes Of The Failure Of The French Revolution

The French revolution is one of the most remarkable revolutions in modern human history,it is flag with freedom and equality,overthrew the autocratic monarchy and destroyed the feudal system,but with the revolution is more and more radical,freedom and equality are being trampled,in the end,the revolution in napoleon’s authoritarian instead of Louis xvi despotism.Since the French revolution broke out,many thinkers and scholars on the origin,process and significance of the research and thinking,the related research results,among them,some studies involving the reasons for the failure of the French revolution revolution,but to make more systematically,the cause of revolution defeat a profound analysis,at abroad famous thinker are Edmund Burke,Bejamin Constant and Alexis de Tocqueville,in the domestic scholars are mainly Gao Yi and Zhu Xueqin.Through the synthesis their viewpoint,this paper holds that the subjective cause of the failure of the French revolution is to destroy religion and traditions,using too radical change,eliminate the nobility and clergy,Rousseau’s thought,the practice has many defects too promoting equality and make outweighed the freedom and equality literati dominated political life,and the objective cause of the failure of the French revolution has two,namely the sharp complex social contradictions and radical crowd psychology and political atmosphere.Combined with the theoretical views and methods of marxism,this paper further argues that there is an interactive relationship between the subjective cause and the objective cause of the failure of the French revolution.The objective cause is the condition for the subjective cause to play its role,while the subjective cause determines the way the objective cause plays its role.Specifically,on the one hand,the old system under the French long-term accumulation of social contradiction and make the king privileged flak,to cut off the possibility of revolutionary road of British constitutional monarchy,and complex social contradictions psychological and political culture of the masses with radical also make revolutionary leaders have to accept and even rely on the driven by the underlying masses,fierce revolution form;Revolutionary leaders and the revolutionary masses,on the other hand,radical revolutionary measures has also sparked strong opposition from home and abroad,as a result,civil unrest and foreign military intervention intensified the domestic already complicated contradiction,further radical revolutionary leaders and the masses,and further intensify contradictions at home and abroad.After the overthrow of the most radical jacobins,the new viceroy,faced with a complex and deteriorating situation left by its predecessor,was unable to recover,relying only on the military to maintain order,and when the people tired of the revolution,tyranny returned.