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The Circassians of the Abdzakh region started a great revolution in Circassian territory in 1770. Classes such as slaves, nobles and princes were completely abolished. The Abdzakh Revolution coincides with the French Revolution. While many French nobles took refuge in Russia, some of the Circassian nobles took the same path and took refuge in ...
(2001, Philippines): Second EDSA Revolution (2001, Philippines): EDSA III (2004–2019, Syria, Iraq, Turkey): Rojava conflict; Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010 (2013–2014, Ukraine): Euromaidan (2014): Abkhazian Revolution; 2014 Burkinabé uprising; 2017–2019 Romanian protests; 2018 Armenian revolution; 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests; 2020–2021 ...
Map of the world's conflicts Archived 21 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, by IRIN. History Guy's coverage of 21st century wars; Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) Conflict Barometer Archived 9 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine – Describes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, and settlements
Charles Tilly defines it as "a social movement advancing exclusive competing claims to control of the state, or some segment of it". [1] Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper define it more simply (and consistently with other works [2] [need quotation to verify]) as "a social movement that seeks, as minimum, to overthrow the government or state".
A revolutionary wave (sometimes revolutionary decade) is a series of revolutions occurring in various locations within a particular timespan. In many cases, past revolutions and revolutionary waves have inspired current ones, or an initial revolution has inspired other concurrent "affiliate revolutions" with similar aims.
Examples are the Industrial Revolution, a major shift of technological, socioeconomic, and cultural conditions; the American war against colonial Britain; the Bolshevik overthrowing of the Russian monarchy to attempt to create a communist society; and the attempt by the Khmer Rouge to start Cambodian history anew.
For some historians, the traditional paradigm of revolutions as class struggle-driven conflicts centered in Europe, and involving a violent state versus its discontented people, was no longer sufficient to account for the multi-class coalitions toppling dictators around the world. Consequently, the study of revolutions began to evolve in three ...