We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present" (W.W. Norton), journalist and CNN anchor Fareed ...
Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A ...
Having “a Share in two revolutions,” the activist and philosopher Thomas Paine reflected in old age, “is living to some purpose.” It was Paine who, after influencing events in both America and France, ...
Most revolutions do have specific goals and demands, most of the successful ones do have organized leadership that can mobilize at least a dedicated cadre of followers, and most have some idea what ...
Alan Maass continues the SocialistWorker.org series on the fall of the Berlin Wall by recounting the tide of revolt that swept across Eastern Europe in 1989. THE FALL of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago ...
Joseph Loconte, Ph.D., is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Soon after the start of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789, the English ...
It depends how you count, but at least three. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. How many revolutions did France have? It seems like ...