SOSC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Theda Skocpol, Landed Property, Ted Robert Gurr
13 May 2016
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Before social revolutions can occur, she says, the administrative and military power of a state has to break down. A revolution such as the french revolution also presented itself with a significant factor of power conducted with social, political, and economical conflicts. She describes the processes by which the centralized administrative and military machinery disintegrated in these countries, which made class relations vulnerable to assaults from below. social revolutions, but also their momentous occurrences in the history of the world. These revolutions change the lives of every citizen of the country; they completely alter the organization of the state, including their class structures, as well as the prominent beliefs and theories held by the people. The rise of the new regimes in these countries completely exceeds the previous, prerevolutionary establishments. In france, the revolution allowed for the country to become an omnipresent, conquering force in.
