See also: Revolution (homonymy)
A revolution is a material change in the life of a Peuple. These changes can relate to social aspects or policies as well that economic aspects or techniques. By extension any change which upsets the established order in an unspecified field (the heliocentric Théorie is thus regarded as being a scientific revolution).
Political and social revolutions
The political revolutions characterize a political radical change of personnel, and often of institutions, because of a popular intervention. The social revolutions are characterized by vast changes of the social hierarchies because of a rising of the population, or part of this one, against the established order.
This intervention is accompanied, in certain cases, of a use of violence (or contrary it is about a non-violent Conflit): it was for example the case at the time of the Russian and French revolutions (with “Terror”). It is finished not only when its protagonists left the political scene, but when their successors succeed in imposing their re-examined and corrected version history. In this direction the French revolution made a success of overall in spite of the abandonment of the republican Calendrier whereas the Russian revolution implosé in 1991.
National and liberal revolutions
- First English revolution (1641 - 1649)
- Second English revolution (1688 - 1689)
- American Revolution (1775 - 1783)
- Revolution brabançonne (Austrian Netherlands, 1787 - 1790)
- French revolution (1789 - 1799)
- Revolution inhabitant of Li2ege (Principality of Liege, 1789 - 1795)
- Batavian Revolution (Netherlands, 1795 - 1806)
- the Glorious Three (France, 1830)
- Belgian Revolution (1830)
- Revolution of 1848 (France, 1848)
- German Revolution (1918)
- Revolution indonésienne (1945 - 1949)
- Algerian Revolution (Algeria, 1954 - 1962)
- Revolution of the eyelets (Portugal, 1974)
- Revolution of velvet (Czechoslovakia, 1989)
- Rumanian Revolution (1989), Falls of the Dictateur Nicolae Ceauşescu
- Otpor (i.e. “Resistance”, into Serb) (Serbia, 2000). Fall of the mode of Slobodan Milošević.
- Revolution of the pinks (Georgia, 2003)
- Orange revolution (Ukraine, 2004)
- Revolution of the cedar (Lebanon, 2005)
- Revolution of the tulips (Kirghizstan, 2005)
- Revolution of Thailand (Thailand, 2006)
Libertarian revolutions
Marxist revolutions
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Common of Paris (1871)
- Russian Revolution (1917) (subject to deposit, it acts according to certain Marxists of a middle-class revolution, Kerensky represents the middle-class, the seizure of power by Lénine are connected with a coup d'etat)
- Révolution spartakist (1919)
- cuban Révolution (1958) (subject to deposit, it acts for certain Marxists of a middle-class national revolution)
Islamic revolutions
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Iranian Revolution (1979) (It was acted in fact gathering of a revolution liberal, communist, socialist and islamist, which aimed at reversing the monarchy but which was monopolized thereafter by the monks.)
Social revolutions
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Haitian Revolution (1791, revolt of slaves)
- Feminism (since the Seventies)
- Quiet revolution of the Quebec (1960)
- May 1968
Economic and technical revolutions
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technical Revolutions:
- scientific Revolutions:
- Revolution data-processing copernician
- Revolution
- biomolecular Revolution
- quantum Revolution
See too
Related articles
- Riot
- Insurrection
- scientific Subversion
- Revolution
- Permanent revolution
- preserving Revolution
- national Revolution, official doctrines of the Mode of Vichy (France, 1940 - 1944)
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