ABSTRACT
The term revolution can mean almost anything, and definitions have ranged all the way from "simple change" to "international holocaust". One's concern will be to understand what a revolution is in its morphological sense, rather than to explicate why a revolution takes place in its more abstract sense. The first problem facing the insurgents, both moderates and revolutionaries, is that of creating conditions under which governmental change will come about. In general, insurgent activities, at least as compared with those used in the Eastern model, are minimal. The creation of the united front and its constituent organizations are made easier by the fact that the revolutionaries are likely to have an efficient and extensive urban underground apparatus already in existence, left over from the days of their urban struggle. The combination of historical factors is probably why Maoism and its varieties have become the dominant style of revolution making even in higher industrialized societies.
