Revolution

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

Libertarian revolutions

Marxist revolutions

  • 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

  • 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

Economic and technical revolutions

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