The study written in the form of a review describes the three great revolu­tions, the American, the French and the Russian through their description by contemporaries and by doing so, he calls attention to the fact that some of the great personalities of the liberal pantheon were far from sharing the aversion of today's theoreticians of the new right towards social justice, the opposition to private property, direct democracy and towards the ideals of re­volution in the world historical sense.