Dans un ouvrage intitulé The Revolution of the Saints, M. Michael Walzer, de l'Université Princeton, a montré les points communs entre les puritains de l'Angleterre du XVII siècle, les Jacobins du XVIII siècle en France et les Bolcheviks du XX siècle en Russie.
Princeton scholar Michael Walzer, in a book called The Revolution of the Saints, has shown the similarities among the puritans of 17th-century England, the Jacobins of 18th-century France, and the Bolsheviks of 20th-century Russia.