March 01

What Makes A Revolution? Some Recommended Revolting Resources!

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According to the New York Times a 93-page guide to toppling autocrats, available for download in 24 languages — has inspired dissidents around the world, including in Burma, Bosnia, Estonia and Zimbabwe, and now Tunisia and Egypt.
View the full text of From Dictatorship to democracy by Gene Sharp online

But what else causes a revolution? See this useful discussion from LSE researchonline.
MacCulloch, Robert (2001) What makes a revolution? DEDPS, 30. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
The Marxist Internet Archive has many full text classic writings on revolution and communism. see Rosa Luxemburg on reform or revolution (1900)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook has links to many primary source documents and other websites covering revolutions throughout history.
LSE staff and students might also like to try The international encyclopedia of revolution and protest 1500 to the present to find articles and summaries.
as well as International Political Science Abstracts to find references to journal articles.
Posted by Heather Dawson  From New Research Selected by LSE Library
February 04

1979 Iranian Revolution. BBC

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Short history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution in which Muslim fundamentalists, under the leadership of the Ayatollah Khomeini, overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Includes brief biographies of some of the participants as well as audio clips of comments made by them on the BBC Persian Service program.http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/revolution/

From: http://theipl.wordpress.com/the-link/
June 09

International Encyclopedia Of Revolution And Protest: 1500 To The Present. [New Reference Book]

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This 8 volume set covers the history of protest and revolution throughout the era of modern mass movements. It covers major uprisings and protest movements, ideas and ideologies and activists. It traces the roots, goals, tactics and influence of these movements, and evaluates their successes and failures.

Shelf Number: R  303.6403 INTE

To give some examples of its coverage, here are some entries in the index volume, Volume 8

Anarchosyndicalism

Black Panthers

Cabral, Amilcar

Cambodia

Chomsky, Noam

French Revolution

Maoism

Prague Spring

Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path)

Tambo, Oliver

Tanzania - Maji-Maji Revolt

March 27

Successful Revolutionary Movements: Vietnam (1955-63), Algeria (1945-62), And Nicaragua (1967-79)

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The Political Context Behind Successful Revolutionary Movements, Three Case Studies: Vietnam (1955-63), Algeria (1945-62), and Nicaragua (1967-79)
Source: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

Following the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the new world order did not bring about a closure of revolutionary warfare. In fact, the Soviet-inspired wars of liberation against imperialism have been eclipsed by reactionary, jihadist wars. By all indications in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, and Iraq, Islamic militants have embraced revolutionary warfare, although not Mao’s People’s War model. Therefore, a study of revolutionary warfare is apt because the conflict between the West and radical jihadism will continue to take place in dysfunctional, collapsing, or failed states. The author examines the political-military lessons from these conflicts and suggests that the United States should minimize the level and type of assistance to states fighting in an insurgency because these states possess greater advantages than previously supposed.

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