ABSTRACT

This chapter explains the analysis and the interpretation of revolution as a social-psychological and cultural phenomenon with general features or processes must, of course, that depends on facts derived from the history of particular revolutions, counter revolutions, and attempts at the revolution. A revolution is, a more or less sudden social change, usually accomplished by forcible overthrow of the existing political order and leading to the establishment of new forms of social and legal control. The makers of revolution are the groups and classes, under dynamic leadership, which have felt cramped by the power of the dominant lite. The Puritan revolution was born of the rising middle classes, which resented the restrictions of the decaying feudal order and the divine right of kings. The history of revolutions affords ample evidence that this interpretation of terrorism is correct. The function of the pre revolutionary agitator has passed. Stable administrators, faithful bureaucrats, and technologists acquire high prestige because their functions are essential.