ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author attempts to show how each theoretical model was affected by the world historical and intellectual environments of the author and, more important, to indicate how each theoretical model relates to successor models. By "revolutionary conflict theory" the author mean that part of the conflict theory literature that either deals exclusively with revolutions or has an important bearing on the subject. Karl Marx identified revolutionary versus nonrevolutionary classes, which also affected revolutionary strategy. Crane Brinton's last edition of The Anatomy of Revolution, Ted Robert Gurr's Ph.D. dissertation, which was the foundation of Why Men Rebel and Chalmers Johnson's first edition of Revolutionary Change all appeared during 1965 and 1966. Marxist theory is international in the sense that—for the first time—social, political, and economic conditions everywhere in the world are connected to the developments everywhere else.
