Revolutions have brought about some of the most radical transformations in world history and politics. Learn what led to the American, French, Latin American, and Russian revolutions, as well as the characteristics commonly shared by nearly all political uprisings. American colonists chose tea as a turning point in the revolution against Great Britain.
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The Internet also has made it easier to gather stories. Selbin says he hopes his book will change how people teach about revolutions. He says some chapters of his book are already being assigned to students in graduate classes that focus on revolutions.
He also says his ideas can be applied to current situations such as the rise of the Tea Party movement in the United States, which he notes is more a case of resistance or rebellion than revolution. A Future Full of Promise. Southwestern Celebrates the Inauguration of our 16th President. The Making of the Mark.
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How might we make sense of these upheavals? Are they revolutionary or just a series of spectacular eruptions of anger? And are they doomed to fail? As an historian of the French Revolution of , I often ponder the similarities between the five great revolutions of the modern world — the English Revolution , American Revolution , French Revolution , Russian Revolution and Chinese Revolution A key question today is whether the rebellions we are currently witnessing are also revolutionary.
A model of revolution drawn from the five great revolutions can tell us much about why they occur and take particular trajectories.
The key characteristics are:. The most likely to become revolutionary is in Iraq, where the regime has shown a willingness to kill its own citizens more than in October alone. This indicates that any concessions to demonstrators will inevitably be regarded as inadequate.
We do not know how the extraordinary rebellion in Hong Kong will end, but it may be very telling that there does not seem to have been significant defection from the police or army to the protest movement. Read more: Is there hope for a Hong Kong revolution? So, we need to distinguish between major revolutions that transform social and political structures, coups by armed elites and common forms of protest over particular issues.
An example of this is the massive, violent and ultimately successful protests in Ecuador last month that forced the government to cancel an austerity package. The protests in Hong Kong and Catalonia fall into yet another category: they have limited aims for political sovereignty rather than more general objectives.
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