INTRODUCTION TO REVOLUTION

 There has to be a revolution…But it has to be a revolution of consciousness…

By Elizabeth H. Elys.

Revolution from the Latin Revolutio (turnaround), is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place over a relatively short period of time.  Revolutions have occurred throughout human history and very widely in terms of methods, duration, and motivating ideology. Their results include major changes in culture, economy and socio-political institutions.

Throughout global history, there have been major political, social, economic, cultural, and technological revolutions. These revolutions have a variety of complex causes and often a great impact on the lives of the people involved.

We are all familiar with the phrase “History repeats itself” over and over each in very different situations.

The same can be said about the American and French revolutions, these two end in very different situations.

In 1848 across Europe revolutionaries, radicalized by the ideas of liberalism, and nationalism, went to barricades to confront absolutism. Revolts began in Sicilian Palermo, sparking on Italian Peninsula, later in France, civil war spread across German states, The Habsburg Empire, Denmark and Ireland.

In early 1848 Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto on “workers of the world to unite.” For decades socialist would promote the idea of “World Revolution” a concept based on the notion of revolutionary waves.

The earliest revolutionary wave in modern history was the Atlantic Revolutions, which began with the American Revolution of 1776, and 1789 swept over to France. Inspired by the idea of liberty, revolutionaries fought against aristocratic and colonial rule. The sparked the Haitian Revolution of 1791, the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and revolutionary wars in Latin America.

Most important impact in history made to revolutions: French Revolution (1789-1799) and American Revolution (1775-1873). Both these revolutions were the product of Enlightenment ideals that struck a large population of the people which emphasized the idea of natural rights and equality and led to many changes in society. It all ties together with the French Revolution and American revolutions in which people felt the need to be free from tyrannical rule.

The America Revolution was about the independence of the country, same like Latin American countries. The people who planned these revolutions were among the capitalist middle class of society.

Declaration of Rights of Man, which all present people live by that, and France gained religious tolerance. Since the end of the revolution, France has had five different governments as oppose to America that has had the same one. Overall the America Revolution is considered the first significant revolution of the modern era, as it was the first to be successful. Both two revolutions were repeated in time which proves that history in some cases does repeat itself. These two revolutions changed history throughout the world as we know.

Vladimir I. Lenin and his Relation to the Revolution was the creator of the revolution as he was one who influenced the starting communist ideas and also the one who helped remove the Tsar Nicholas II. Lenin was the saviour because he helped encourage new ideas and courses of action, bringing the revolution back to life. He was also the destroyer of the revolution because his ideas never came true and it was the fact he never forced any of these ideas into action that caused the revolution to breakdown.