Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 Tecnica del colpo di stato, 1948 Italian translation | |
| Author | Curzio Malaparte |
|---|---|
| Original title | Technique du coup d'état |
| Translator | Sylvia Saunders |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Coup d'état |
| Publisher | Éditions Grasset |
Publication date | 1931 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1932 |
| Pages | 297 |
Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution (French: Technique du coup d'état; Italian: Tecnica del colpo di stato) is a 1931 book by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte.
Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution consists of Curzio Malaparte's reflections on modern coups d'état. It devotes chapters to the Bolshevik Revolution with a focus on Leon Trotsky's and Vladimir Lenin's roles, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw, the Kapp Putsch in Germany, Napoleon Bonaparte as the inventor of the modern coup d'état, Miguel Primo de Rivera's rise to power in Spain, Benito Mussolini and the March on Rome, and the possibility that Adolf Hitler will come to power in Germany.[1]
