Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Editor/Author
DeFronzo, James
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Westview Press
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ISBN: 978-0-81-334924-4
Category: Social Sciences - Contemporary Issues & Controversies
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements provides a representative cross section of the most significant revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- ACRONYMS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Social Movements and Revolutions
- REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS: CRITICAL FACTORS
- REVOLUTIONS THAT FAILED
- THEORIES OF REVOLUTION
- ARE REVOLUTIONS DEVELOPING OR OCCURRING NOW?
- SUMMARY
- Chapter 2 - The Russian Revolutions and Eastern Europe
- GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
- THE SETTING FOR REVOLUTION
- THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY
- THE ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION OF 1905
- THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1917
- ASSESSING THE BOLSHEVIK SEIZURE OF POWER
- THE CIVIL WAR
- LEADERSHIP STRUGGLE
- THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN
- THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES
- THE SOVIET UNION AND REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE
- THE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AND THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN POST-COMMUNIST PARTY STATES
- THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE SOVIET UNION
- ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRENDS
- CORRUPTION
- HEALTH AND RELATED ISSUES
- THE DISINTEGRATION OF YUGOSLAVIA AND THE TRAGEDY OF BOSNIA
- COLOR REVOLUTIONS
- CONFLICT BETWEEN GEORGIA AND RUSSIA IN 2008
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 3 - Revolution in China
- GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
- SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SETTINGS FOR REVOLUTION
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT
- CIVIL WAR IN CHINA
- THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: 1949-1990
- THE GREAT PROLETARIAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION: 1966-1968
- POST-1978 REFORMS
- THE 1989 PRODEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATIONS
- CHINA'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN THE 1990S
- CHINA'S ECONOMIC SUCCESS RELATIVE TO THE FORMER USSR
- MORALITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
- CHINA'S PROGRESS, PROBLEMS, POLICIES, AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 4 - The Vietnamese Revolution
- GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
- EARLY CULTURAL AND POLITICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- FRENCH CONQUEST
- THE FRENCH IMPACT ON VIETNAM
- RESISTANCE TO FRENCH RULE
- THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II
- INSURRECTION
- THE FRENCH INDOCHINA WAR: 1946-1954
- THE 1954 GENEVA ACCORDS ON INDOCHINA
- U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM: 1954-1975
- AFTERMATH AND RELATED DEVELOPMENTS
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 5 - The Cuban Revolution
- GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
- PREREVOLUTIONARY POLITICAL HISTORY
- ECONOMY AND SOCIAL CLASSES
- REVOLUTION
- REVOLUTIONARY CUBA
- U.S. REACTIONS TO THE REVOLUTION
- CUBA AND REVOLUTION IN OTHER COUNTRIES
- CUBA AND VENEZUELA'S BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION AND THE DEMOCRATIC SHIFT TO THE LEFT …
- CUBAN ECONOMY AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 6 - Revolution in Nicaragua
- GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
- NICARAGUA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
- THE REVOLUTION
- POSTREVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT, CHANGES, AND CONFLICTS
- U.S. AND WORLD REACTIONS TO THE REVOLUTION
- 1989 PEACE AGREEMENT AND 1990 ELECTION
- NICARAGUA IN THE 1990S
- WHY WERE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS SO HOSTILE?
- NICARAGUA AFTER THE VIOLETA CHAMORRO PRESIDENCY
- DANIEL ORTEGA AND THE FSLN REGAIN THE PRESIDENCY
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 7 - The Iranian Revolution and Islamic Fundamentalism
- GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
- NATIONAL CULTURE
- THE QAJAR DYNASTY AND FOREIGN INFLUENCE
- THE PAHLAVI DYNASTY
- THE SETTING FOR REVOLUTION
- THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
- REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
- IRAN AFTER KHOMEINI
- IRAN AND THE 1991 GULF WAR
- IRAN AND ISLAMIC REVOLUTION ELSEWHERE
- IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, THE WAR ON TERROR, AND THE U.S.-LED INVASION AND OCCUPATION …
- DEVELOPMENTS AFTER THE ELECTION OF OBAMA
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 8 - Islamic Revolutionary Movements
- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM
- FUNDAMENTALISM, MILLENARIANISM, AND REVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL IN SHIA ISLAM
- CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTIONARY FUNDAMENTALISM IN SUNNA ISLAM: HAMAS, AL QAEDA, TALIBAN
- THE WAR IN IRAQ
- HEZBOLLAH AND THE WAR WITH ISRAEL
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 9 - South Africa
- GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION
- DUTCH AND BRITISH COLONIZATION
- THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
- THE APARTHEID STATE
- CHANGES IN THE APARTHEID SYSTEM
- OPPOSITION TO APARTHEID
- COUNTERINSURGENCY STRATEGIES OF THE REGIME IN THE 1980S
- REFORMING APARTHEID
- THE DISMANTLING OF APARTHEID
- SOUTH AFRICA AFTER APARTHEID
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 10 - Revolution Through Democracy
- REVOLUTION TO DEMOCRACY
- REVOLUTION THROUGH DEMOCRACY: THE VENEZUELAN EXCEPTION
- REVOLUTION THROUGH DEMOCRACY: BOLIVIA
- ELECTIONS IN OTHER NATIONS
- SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
- Chapter 11 - Conclusions
- SOME COMPARISONS AMONG THE CASE STUDIES
- INADEQUACIES IN THE THEORIES OF REVOLUTION
- REVOLUTIONS OF THE FUTURE?
- PURCHASE AND RENTAL SOURCES
- ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR