Abstract: The twentieth century has been the century of revolution. Although the revolutionary model began with the eighteenth-century revolutions of North America and France, the nineteenth century was an era of failed revolution, and it was only in the current century that swept the world-most notably in the revolutions of Mexico, Russia, Yugoslavia, China, Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba, but also in the national revolutions of Algeria, the Middle East, Indonesia, and much of Africa. Some would even subsume the radical changes brought by the Nazi and Fascist movements of Germany and Italy within the definition of revolution (Schoenbaum, 1966). Revolutions have reshaped the global environment and reordered the structures of daily life in this century (Arendt, 1963). An enormous, useful, and insightful literature analyzes both the general phenomenon of and the variety of specific national revolutionary movements. That literature provides an essential foundation for understanding the world in which we live. But as we approach the twenty-first century, we face a world in which, one after
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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