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The term comes from French coup d'État, literally meaning a 'stroke of state' or 'blow of state'. [20] [21] [22] In English the phrases 'stroke of state' and 'blow of state', no matter how literal they may be, do not make sense, and so they are not translations at all, and hence not literal translations. Some equivalent might be sought in ...
Coup d'État: The Technique of Revolution consists of Curzio Malaparte's reflections on modern coups d'état.It devotes chapters to the Bolshevik Revolution with a focus on Leon Trotsky's and Vladimir Lenin's roles, the 1920 Battle of Warsaw, the Kapp Putsch in Germany, Napoleon Bonaparte as the inventor of the modern coup d'état, Miguel Primo de Rivera's rise to power in Spain, Benito ...
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, first published in 1968, is a book by Edward Luttwak examining the conditions, strategy, planning, and execution of coups d'état. [1] A revised edition of the book, with references to twenty-first century technology, was published in 2016. [ 2 ]
May 68 (French: Mai 68) refers to a period of civil unrest that occurred throughout France from May to June 1968. Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, and the occupation of universities and factories.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
The Coup of 18 Brumaire (French: Coup d'État du 18 Brumaire) brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of the French First Republic. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French .
This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days. [1]
The coup d'état of November 24, 1948 was an insurrection of soldiers and politicians against the democratically elected Venezuelan president Rómulo Gallegos who was overthrown and forced into exile, in his place a Military Junta was installed, chaired by Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, and integrated also by lieutenant colonels Marcos Pérez ...