Revolution
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised -- Gil Scott-Heron The revolution devours its own children You say you want a revolution --"Revolution" (1968) by The Beatles "As a revolutionary thinker de Sade was in complete opposition to all his contemporaries firstly in his complete and continual denial of a right to property, and secondly in his view of the struggle as being not between the Crown, the bourgeoisie, the aristocracy or the clergy, or sectional interests of any of these against one another (the view of all his contemporaries) but of all these more or less united against the proletariat." --The Revolutionary Ideas of the Marquis de Sade (1935), Geoffrey Gorer "The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it. –— "Catechism of a Revolutionary" (1869) Sergey Nechayev , incipit "The juvenile delinquents -- not the pop artists -- are the true inheritors of Dada." --"The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution" (1967) |
Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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A revolution (from Late Latin revolutio which means "a turn around") is a significant change that usually occurs in a relatively short period of time. Variously defined revolutions have been happening throughout human history. They vary in terms of numbers of their participants (revolutionaries), means employed by them, duration, motivating ideology and many other aspects. They may result in a socio-political change in the socio-political institutions, or a major change in a culture or economy.
Revolutions have occurred throughout human history and vary widely in terms of methods, success or failure, duration, and motivating ideology. Their results include major changes in culture, economy, and socio-political institutions, usually in response to perceived overwhelming autocracy or plutocracy.
Notable revolutions in recent centuries include the creation of the United States through the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the French Revolution (1789–1799), the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), the Spanish American wars of independence (1808–1826), the European Revolutions of 1848, the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Chinese Revolution of the 1940s, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the European Revolutions of 1989.
See also
- Age of Revolution
- Art and revolution
- Classless society
- Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution
- Industrial Revolution
- Political warfare
- Proletarian revolution
- Psychological warfare
- Rebellion
- Reformism
- Revolutionary wave
- Right of revolution
- Scientific Revolution
- Sexual revolution
- Social movement
- Subversion
- Uprisings led by women
