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From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of communal justice, revolutionaries took on the set up might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic assault, and have sometimes gained miraculous victories, though at other times endured devastating beat. This Very Short Release illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways that revolutions continue steadily to dominate world happenings and the favorite imagination. Starting with the city-states of old Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional revolutions such as in America, and their opposite--the communist revolutions of the 20th hundred years. He shows how revolutions overturned dictators in Nicaragua and Iran and helped bring the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, and examines the new influx of non-violent "color" revolutions-the Philippines' Yellowish Revolution, Ukraine's Orange Revolution--and the Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 that rocked the center East. Goldstone also sheds light on the major ideas of revolution, discovering the sources of revolutionary waves, the role of revolutionary market leaders, the strategies and functions of revolutionary change, and the intersection between revolutions and moving habits of global vitality. Finally, the writer examines the reasons for diverse revolutionary benefits, from democracy to civil war and authoritarian rule, and the likely future of revolution in a long time.
