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.
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