Bourgeois philosophers of the " great man theory of history " came under attack from Plekhanov from the economic determinist point of view in his 1898 book entitled " On the Individual's Role in History . " Thirdly, Plekhanov defended revolutionary Marxism against the revisionist critics Eduard Bernstein, Pyotr Struve, " etc ".
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Some of the history in the books is also a bit dodgy : Willis appears to subscribe to the " Great Man theory ", and provides a simplistic account of why the Allies won ( though I guess that there's more scope for adventure writing about the impact of key individuals than prosaic topics such as industrial production ).
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The band name is a challenge to the " Great man theory " and a call for a paradigm shift . Rather than subscribe to the notion that " highly influential individuals " to whom " monuments " are built shape historical developments, the band name posits that it is actually the " masses " struggling for change who make history.
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The international controversy provoked by the " Christ Myth " was an early part of Drews's lifelong advocacy of the abandonment of Judaism and Christianity, both of which he regarded as based on ancient beliefs from liberal theologians, which he argued was nothing more than the adaptation of the Great Man Theory of history promoted by Romanticism of the 19th century.
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He advocated the Great Man theory in his 1899 piece, " Heroes and the Times " (, " Y + ngxi�ng y? Sh�sh?" ), and he also wrote biographies of European state-builders such as Otto von Bismarck, Horatio Nelson, Oliver Cromwell, Lajos Kossuth, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour; as well as Chinese men including Zheng He, Tan Sitong, and Wang Anshi.
