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Handbook of revolutions in the 21st century : the new waves of revolutions, and the causes and effects of disruptive political change
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- Creator
- edited by Jack A. Goldstone, Leonid Grinin, and Andrey Korotayev
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1048 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783030864699, 9783030864682, 9783030864675, 3030864685, 9783030864705
- Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About This Book -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction. Changing Yet Persistent: Revolutions and Revolutionary Events -- 1 Aims of this Volume -- 2 Revolutions Change Their Types and Forms Over the Course of History -- 3 Toward a Typology of Revolutionary Events -- 4 Waves of Revolutions of the Twenty-First Century -- 5 Revolutions of the 21st Century: A List -- 6 The Structure of This Volume -- References -- The Phenomenon and Theories of Revolution -- The Phenomenon and Theories of Revolutions -- 1 The Changing Theories of Revolution -- 2 The Phenomenon of Revolution -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- On Revolutionary Situations, Stages of Revolution, and Some Other Aspects of the Theory of Revolution -- 1 Introductory Notes -- 2 Impact of Revolutions on the World System -- 2.1 The Mutual Influence Between Revolutions and the World System -- 2.2 Revolutions as a Geopolitical Weapon and Reduction of Their Positive Role in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century -- 3 On the Revolutionary Situation -- 3.1 A General Revolutionary Situation and Objective Conditions for Its Emergence -- 3.2 Features of an Acute Pre-revolutionary Crisis -- 3.3 A Particular Revolutionary Situation -- 4 About Great Revolutions -- 5 Stages of Revolutionary Change -- 5.1 A Revolutionary Cycle -- 5.2 Revolution and the Thermidorian Law -- 5.3 Ideology and the Thermidorian Law -- 5.4 Bonapartism -- 6 On the Cases When the Elite Loses Its Sense of Self-Preservation -- 7 On the Role of Information Technologies in Revolutionary Practices -- References -- Revolutions, Counterrevolutions, and Democracy -- 1 The Problems and Contradictions of Young Democratic Societies -- 2 Revolutions and Reactions -- 3 Why Is the Path to Sustainable Democracy so Hard? -- 4 Minority and Majority in Revolutions
- 5 Revolutions Versus Democracy? -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Revolutions: History, Aspects and Dimensions -- Revolutions and Historical Process -- 1 Introduction: Ancient and Modern Revolutions -- 2 The Role of Revolutions for the Development of Social System and the World System -- 2.1 Revolutions as a Means to Change a Society's Social-Political Structure Under Capitalist and Industrial Production -- 2.2 Revolution as a Means of Mutual Influence Between Societies and the World System -- 3 The Changing Role of Revolutions in the Historical Process -- 3.1 The Role of Revolutions Prior to the Modern Era -- 3.2 The Role of Revolutions in the Modern Era Before the Mid-Nineteenth Century. The Changing Role of Revolutions in the World System Core -- 3.3 The Declining Progressive Role of Revolutions in the World System Core and Their Substitution for Reforms -- 3.4 The Increasing Role of Revolutions in the World-System Semi-Periphery and Periphery. Revolutions as a Result of the World system's Transformations in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 3.5 Revolutions of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century and Early Twenty-First Century -- 4 Revolutions and the Globalization Process -- 5 Conclusion. The Role of Revolutions in the Future -- References -- Evolution and Typology of Revolutions -- 1 On Some Preconditions for a Revolutionary Outbreak -- 2 Early Revolutions (The Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) -- 2.1 Why May One Consider the Reformation as the First Revolution of the Early Modern Period? -- 2.2 Religious Revolutions and Their Transformations -- 2.3 Revolutions, Political Regime and Opportunities for the Development of Society -- 2.4 The Development of Revolutionary Movements: Expanding the Support Bases, Emergence of New Features and Radicalization -- 2.5 The English Revolution and the Outlines of Subsequent Revolutions
- 2.6 The American Revolution -- 2.7 The French Revolution and the Formation of Classic Features of Revolutions -- 3 The Heyday of Revolutions (Nineteenth-First Half of the Twentieth Century) -- 3.1 The Strengthening of Socialist Ideology in the Revolutions of the Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries -- 3.2 The Socialist Revolution in Russia in 1917 -- 3.3 The Chinese Socialist Revolution -- 4 Differentiation of Revolutions and Their Typology -- 5 The Changing Role of Revolutions in the Historical Process (Second Half of the Twentieth-Beginning of the Twenty-First Century) -- References -- The Problem of Structure and Agency and the Contemporary Sociology of Revolutions and Social Movements -- References -- Revolution and Modernization Traps -- 1 Revolutions and Modernization Period -- 2 The Processes and Types of Modernization -- 3 The Malthusian and Modernization Traps -- 3.1 The Societal Contradiction Generated by the Modernization Process and the Threat of Revolutions -- 3.2 Types of Modernization Traps at the Escape from the Malthusian Trap -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Revolutionary Waves in History -- Typology and Principles of Dynamics of Revolutionary Waves in World History -- 1 Landmarks in Understanding Revolutionary Waves -- 2 Types of Revolutionary Waves -- 3 Criteria for Selection: Revolutionary Waves as a Class of Phenomena -- 4 Listing the Main Revolutionary Waves -- 5 Types of Revolutionary Events -- 6 Factors of Instability -- 7 The Protest Strain and a Factor of Sample -- 8 Modernization and Maturing of the Socio-political Crisis -- 9 Transition to Revolution -- 10 The Dynamics of the Revolutionary Wave -- 11 The Hypothesis of Compensating Crisis-Prone Factors -- 12 The Role of Coercive Structures -- 13 The Level of Violence in Revolutions -- 14 Preservation or Destruction of the State and Basic Institutions
- 15 Who Wins the Revolutions? -- 16 The Role of External Powers -- References -- Revolutionary Waves of the Early Modern Period. Types and Phases -- References -- The European Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves of the 19th Century: Their Causes and Consequences -- 1 About Revolutionary Waves -- 2 On the Transformations That Created the Conditions for Revolutions -- 2.1 The Basic Causes of the Revolutions of the Nineteenth Century -- 2.2 Social Problems and Poverty -- 3 Changes in Societies' Social and Class Structure -- 3.1 Other Social Strata -- 3.2 Why Did Revolutions Become Inevitable? -- 4 The Revolutionary Waves in Europe -- 4.1 The First Wave of European Revolutions -- 4.2 The Second Wave of Revolutions Was Observed in 1830-1831 -- 4.3 The Subsequent-Third-Overwhelming Wave of Revolutions Began in 1848 -- 5 Nationalist Revolutions in Europe -- 5.1 Nationalism of the Nations Deprived of Their Own State -- 5.2 The Struggle of the Poles and the Irish for Their States -- 5.3 The Position of Nations in the Austrian Empire and the Rise of Their Nationalism -- 5.4 The National Movements of the Balkan Nations -- 5.5 Revolutions and the Formation of Unified States in Germany and Italy -- 6 The Revolution of 1870-1871 in France -- 7 The Results of the 1848 Revolution. The Transition of Capitalism to Maturity and Reforms -- References -- Revolutionary Waves and Lines of the Twentieth Century -- 1 General Remarks on the Twentieth-Century Revolutions and Some of Their Characteristics -- 1.1 The Twentieth Century-The Age of Revolutions -- 1.2 Differences Between the Revolutions of the Twentieth and of the Nineteenth Centuries -- 2 Revolutions, Their Causes and Classification -- 2.1 Causes of the Twentieth-Century Revolutions -- 2.2 Classification of the Twentieth-Century Revolutions -- 3 The Revolutionary Waves, Lines, and Epochs of the Twentieth Century
- the Epochs of Civil Unrest and Dictatorships. The Periods of Revolutionary Transformations. Revolutionary Movements Without Revolutions. The Analogues of Revolutions -- 3.1 The Waves and Lines of Revolutions -- 3.2 Analogues of Revolutions. The Revolutionary Epochs and Epochs Related to Revolutions -- 4 Major Revolutionary Trends and Lines -- 4.1 The Trends of the Twentieth-Century Revolutions -- 4.2 Lines of Revolutions of the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 4.3 Lines of Revolutions from the 1940s Through the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 5 The Waves of Revolutions of the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 5.1 The First Wave of 1905-1911 -- 5.2 The Second Wave of Revolutions in 1917-1923 -- 5.3 The Flood of Transformations in the 1930s -- 6 Waves and Mini-lines of Revolutions of the 1940s and Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 6.1 The Third Wave of Revolutions in 1944-1949 -- 6.2 The 1950s-1980s. Lines of Revolutions and Revolutionary Events -- 7 The Last Wave of Revolutions of the Twentieth Century. Anti-communist and National Revolutions of 1989-1996 -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- On Revolutionary Waves Since the 16th Century -- 1 Additional Ideas Concerning the Causes of Revolutionary Waves -- 2 Which Events Should and Which Should Not Be Considered as Revolutionary Waves? -- 3 The System of Revolutionary Waves from the Sixteenth Century to the Present -- 4 Was There an Atlantic Wave of Revolutions? -- 5 Instead of the Atlantic Wave-The Wave of the French Revolution -- 6 The Haitian Revolution -- References -- Revolutions of the Early 21st Century. The Wave of Color Revolutions -- All Around the World: Revolutionary Potential in the Age of Authoritarian Revanchism -- 1 A Brief Historical Interlude -- 2 On Revolution -- 3 Revolution in the Austerity-Security Era and Age of Authoritarian Revanchism
- 4 Revolutionary Imaginaries: (Re)Imagining Our Worlds and Our Lives