HISTORY 166D Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Crane Brinton, Cuban Revolution, Theda Skocpol
22 Oct 2018
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Audio recording started: 12:01 pm monday, october 1, 2018. Paper later in the quarter is based on that physical book we have for this cla. Social revolutions transform major structures in society while other forms of violence don"t do that. Karl marx saw revolution as engine of long-term historical change. But his grand material explanation for revolution had little room for individua values, or their action. So he left people out of the equation basically. They only talked about broad structural things that occurred whether or not wanted them to occur. 1917 russian revolution sparked a lot of scholarly debate during 1920s the. Selected 1688 british revolution, french, american, russian revo. Looked at them for common attributes his class rms of political ividuals, their r not people. Things would get worse and worse and worse and then the "fever break" Elites would then drop their support for the government.
