The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions

Adams, John

Adams, Samuel

Afghan Revolution (1978–1995)

Albanian Anticommunist Revolution (1990–1992)

Algerian Islamic Revolt (1992–)

Algerian Revolution (1954–1962)

American (U.S.) Revolution (1776–1789)

Anabaptism

Anarchism

Angolan Revolution (1974–1996)

Anthony, Susan B.

Arab “Great Revolt” (1916–1918)

Armed Forces

Art and Representation

Atatürk, Kemal

Babi Revolts (1844–1852)

Baltic Revolutions of 1991

Bangladeshi War of Independence (1971)

Belgian Revolutions (1789–1830)

Benin Revolutions (1963–1996)

Biko, Stephen

Bohemian Revolt (1618–1648)

Bolívar, Simón

Bolivian National Revolution (1952)

Bourgeoisie

British Civil Wars and Revolution (1638–1660)

British “Glorious Revolution” (1688–1689)

British Jacobite Rebellions (1715–1745)

British Reform and Emancipation Movement (1820–1833)

Bulgarian Anticommunist Revolution (1989–1997)

Buonarroti, Filippo Michele

Bureaucracy

Burke, Edmund

Burmese Democratization Movement (1988–)

Burmese Independence Movement (1930S-1948)

Burundi Civil Wars (1993–)

Cabral, Amílcar

Cambodian Khmer Rouge Revolution (1967–1979)

Capitalism

Castro, Fidel

Chiang Kai-Shek

Chilean Socialist Movement and Counterrevolution (1970–1978)

Chinese Boxer Uprising (1898–1900)

Chinese Communist Revolution (1921–1949)

Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1969)

Chinese Late Ming Revolts (1620–1644)

Chinese May Fourth Movement (1919)

Chinese May Thirtieth Movement (1925)

Chinese Muslim Rebellions (1856–1878)

Chinese Nationalist Revolution (1919–1927)

Chinese Republican Revolution (1911)

Chinese Sectarian and Secret Society Revolts (1644–)

Chinese Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)

Chinese Tiananmen Uprising (1989)

Chinese Triad Society Rebellions (18TH–20TH Centuries)

Chinese White Lotus Rebellions (18th–20th Centuries)

Civil Wars

Class

Colombia's “La Violencia” (1948–1964)

Colonialism and Anticolonialism

Communism

Congolese/Zairian Upheavals (1960–)

Constitutions

Costa Rican Revolution (1948)

Counterrevolution

Coup D'État

Cromwell, Oliver

Cuban Revolution (1956–1970)

Cycles, Waves, and Diffusion

Czechoslovak “Prague Spring” (1968)

Czechoslovak “Velvet Revolution” and “Divorce” (1989–1993)

Democracy

Deng Xiaoping

Dictatorship

Dutch Revolutions (1780–1800)

East European Revolutions of 1989

East German Revolution and Unification (1989–1990)

East Timorese Independence Movement (1975–)

Economic Development

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Movement (1928–)

Egyptian Revolts (1881–1919)

Egyptian Revolution (1952)

Elites

English Rett's Rebellion (1549)

Eritrean Revolution (1962–1991)

Ethiopian Revolution (1974–1991)

Ethnic Conflict

European Revolutions of 1820

European Revolutions of 1830

European Revolutions of 1848

Fanon, Frantz Omar

Films and Video Documentaries

Franklin, Benjamin

French Frondes (1648–1653)

French Peasant Revolts (1594–1648)

French Revolution (1789–1815)

French Student Revolt (1968)

French Wars of Religion (1562–1598)

Gandhi, Mahatma

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Gender

German Nazi Revolution (1933–1945)

German Peasant War (1524–1526)

German Revolution (1918)

Ghanaian Independence Movement (1946–1957)

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gramsci, Antonio

Greekwar of Liberation (1821–1832)

Grenada “New Jewel” Revolution (1979–1983)

Guatemalan Revolution (1944–1954)

Guerrilla Warfare

Guevara, Ernesto “Che”

Guinea-Bissau Independence Revolt (1962–1974)

Guinean Independence Movement (1958)

Haitian Democratic Revolution (1986–1996)

Haitian Revolution of Independence (1791–1804)

Havel, Václav

Henry, Patrick

Hitler, Adolf

Ho Chi Minh

Hong Xiuquan

Hungarian Anticommunist Revolution (1989)

Hungarian Revolutions (1918–1919)

Hungarian Revolution (1956)

Ideology

Indian “Great Mutiny” (1857–1859)

Indian Independence Movement (1885–1947)

Indian Regional Revolts (1947–)

Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1950)

Indonesian Upheaval (1965–1966)

Inequality

Injustice

Intellectuals

Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906)

Iranian Islamic Revolution (1979)

Iraqi Revolution (1958)

Irish Revolt in Northern Ireland (1969–)

Irish Revolts (1790S-1900)

Irish Revolution (1916–1923)

Islamic Anticolonial Revolts of the 19th Century

Islamic Fundamentalism

Islamic Precolonial Revolts of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Israeli Independence Revolt (1946–1948)

Italian City-State Revolutions of the Renaissance (1494–1534)

Italian Fascist Revolution (1919–1945)

Italian Risorgimento (1789–1870)

Japanese meiji restoration (1868)

Japanese Tokugawa Shogun Ascendancy (1598–1615)

Jefferson, Thomas

Jinnah, Mohammad Ali

Juarez, Benito

Kenyan Mau Mau Movement (1952–1960)

Kenyatta, Jomo

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah

Kim Il Sung

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Korean Civil War (1950–1953)

Korean Democracy Movement (1960–1998)

Korean Rebellions of 1812 and 1862

Korean Tonghak Rebellion (1894)

Kurdish Revolts (1958–)

Lafayette, Gilbert Du Motier De

Latin American and Caribbean Slave Revolts (1521–1888)

Latin American Popular and Guerrilla Revolts (Independence to 1959)

Latin American Popular and Guerrilla Revolts (1960–1996)

Latin American Revolts Under Colonial Rule (1571–1898)

Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1808–1898)

Leadership

Lechín Oquendo, Juan

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Liberalism

Liberation Theology

Libyan Revolution (1969)

Literature

Locke, John

L'ouverture, François-Dominique Toussaint

Lumumba, Patrice

Luther, Martin

Luxemburg, Rosa

Madagascar (Malagasy) War of Independence(1947)

Madison, James

Malayan Communist Insurgency (1948–1960)

Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla

Mao Zedong

Marat, Jean-Paul

Martí, José

Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels

Media and Communications

Menchú Tum, Rigoberta

Mexican Revolution (1910–1940)

Millenarianism

Mosaddeq, Mohammad

Mozambican Revolution (1974–1994)

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel

Music

Mussolini, Benito

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

Nationalism

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Netherlands Revolt (1566–1609)

Nicaraguan Revolution (1979)

Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)

Nkrumah, Kwame

Nyerere, Julius Kambarage

Omani Rebellions (1955–1975)

Orwell, George

Ottoman Jelali and Janissary Revolts (1566–1826)

Ottoman Revolts in the Near and Middle East (1803–1922)

Paine, Thomas

Pakistani Independence Movement (1940–1947)

Palestinian Anticolonial Revolt (1936–1939)

Palestinian “Intifada” Revolt (1987–1996)

Paris Commune (1871)

Parties

Peasants

Peruvian “Revolution from above” (1968–1975)

Peruvian “Shining Path” Revolt (1980-)

Philippine Huk and New People's Army Rebellions

Philippine Independence Wars (1872–1910)

Philippine “People Power” Revolution (1986)

Polish Protest Movements and Solidarity Revolution (1956–1991)

Population

Portuguese Revolution (1974)

Propaganda

Race

Radicalism

Rationality

Rebellion and Revolt

Reform

Religion

Republics

Rights

Robespierre, Maximilien

Romanian Revolution (1989)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Russian Decembrist Revolt (1825)

Russian Revolution of 1905

Russian Revolution of 1917

Russian-Ukrainian Cossack and Peasant Revolts (1606–1775)

Rwandan Civil Wars (1959–1994)

San Martín, José Francisco De

Sandino, Augusto CéSar

Saudi Arabian Wahhabi Movement (1744–)

Scottish Revolution (1559–1568)

Socialism

Sorel, Georges

South African Antiapartheid Revolts and Reform (1948–1994)

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

Spanish Comuneros Revolt (1520–1521)

Spanish Conquest, Aztec and Inca Revolts in the Era of (1500–1571)

Spanish Struggles Against Revolutionary Movements in Southern Europe (1640–1668)

Spanish War of Independence (1808–1813)

Sri Lankan (Tamil) Revolt and Civil War (1977–)

Stalinjoseph

States

Student Protests and Youth Movements

Sudanese Civil War (1955–1972; 1982–)

Sudanese Mahdiyya (1881–1898)

Sukarno

Sunyat-Sen

Swedish Royal Revolution (1523)

Symbolism, Ritualism, and Dress

Syrian Revolution (1963)

Terrorism

Thai Revolution (1932)

Tibetan Revolt (1959)

Tito, Josip Broz

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Trotsky, Leon

Turkish Revolution (1908–1922)

Tyranny

Ussr Collapse and Dissolution (1989–1991)

Us. Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968)

U.S. Civil War (1861–1865)

U.S. Labor Revolts (1890–1932)

U.S. Preindependence and Pre-Civil War Rebellions (1675–1850)

U.S. Rural Post-Civil War Rebellions (1865–1940)

U.S. Slave Revolts (1776–1865)

Venezuelan Democratic Revolution (1945–1958)

Vietnamese Revolution (1945–1975)

Violence

Walesa, Lech

War

Washington, George

William of Orange (King William IlI of England)

William the Silent

Woman's Rights Movement

Workers

Yemeni Revolutions (1962–1990)

Yugoslav Communist Collapse and Dissolution (1987–1992)

Yugoslav Partisans and Communist Revolution (1941–1948)

Zanzibar Revolution (1964)

Zapata, Emiliano

Zimbabwe Revolt and Reform (1966–1980)