revolution

When the Privileged Don’t Pay their Fair Share in Taxes, it Can Spark Revolution

by Christine Adams

The unfairness of the tax system, especially as the French government faced bankruptcy in the late 1780s, was one of the factors that triggered revolution in 1789. 

Liberté, Equality, #ICantBreathe! Teaching the Age of Revolutions Using the NBA’s 2020 Summer Restart

by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall

The slogans NBA players are wearing on their jerseys can help lead students to understand the objectives of 18th century revolution and the incompleteness of attempts to secure the rights and dignity of all humanity.

Tights Are Now a Fall Fashion Staple—But They Were Once a Revolutionary Style Statement

by Marlen Komar

Tights Season was once revolutionary. 

International Women's Day went from bloody revolution to corporate breakfasts

The radical history behind International Women's Day. 

How Historians Can Help Us Better Understand the Revolutions Taking Place Around the World

by Jack Censer

The key is to understand revolution as a global phenomenon.

Why revolutions succeed or fail (what sociologists say)

by Randall Collins

In the last few years, many people have come to believe they have a formula for overthrowing authoritarian governments and putting democracy in their place.

Niall Ferguson: Paris could burn this summer

High youth unemployment in Europe and disappointing growth expectations in the emerging world could mean more mass protests like the ones seen in Brazil, Niall Ferguson told CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Tuesday."There are two kinds of city that we could see burn this summer," Ferguson said. "The big European cities with Paris at the top of the list look extremely vulnerable. Paris has a greater tradition of urban rioting than almost any city in the world."Ferguson, a Harvard University professor, said the French economy is bad and "the youth unemployment problem right across Latin Europe is really an explosion waiting to go off."...

Michael Lind: Is Revolution Coming to the U.S.?

Michael Lind is the author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States and co-founder of the New America Foundation. Will the third revolutionary wave hit the U.S. next? The revolutions in today’s world are getting ever closer to America.Revolutions tend to occur in waves, triggered by the aftermath of wars, like the world wars, or by revolutions in leading countries, like the French Revolution and the revolutions of 1848. In the last generation, there have been four regional waves of revolution. With the end of the Cold War, communist regimes were swept from power from Eastern Europe to Central Asia, surviving only in a few countries including China, North Korea and Cuba. Unable to justify themselves with the pretense of fighting communism, military dictatorships were swept away in Latin America. Then the Arab Spring triggered a wave of populist if not necessarily democratic revolutions against autocracies in North Africa and the Middle East.