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2019, Theologies of Revolution
Workshop, 20-21 May 2019, Prague
The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change …, 2003
International Studies Review, 2005
COURSE DESCRIPTION: "Revolutions are the locomotives of history," wrote Karl Marx in 1850. What exactly does this statement mean? Beyond repeating the cliché that revolutions are the driving forces of social and political change, our goal in this class is to think through, and hopefully draw some lessons from, revolutions in their historical time as well as across history. Of course, each revolution has its own unique historical circumstances and integral causal components, yet revolutions do inform one another. And whereas people have always revolted against oppressive circumstances, both the meaning and the practice of revolution have changed over time. Among the main questions we address in this class are 1) How are revolutions shaped by their historical time?; 2) What are some of the key differences between early modern revolutions and revolutions in late modern/ late-capitalist eras?; 3) Why do anti-slavery and anti-colonialist revolutions have less privileged status in the canonical research on revolutions?; and 4) What are some of the lessons we can learn today, to guide our thinking about revolutions and their future?2 The class is interdisciplinary in nature, with a heavy focus on sociological, historical and political theoretical readings, as well as readings with a decolonial and a black radical theoretical lens. The class also includes the screening and discussion of movies about revolutions. COURSE OBJECTIVES: In this class, 1. We will learn about key theories in analyzing revolutions. 2. We will learn about some of the key revolutions in world history. 3. We will learn about how some of these revolutions were informed by or shaped one other. 4. We will learn how the idea and the practice of revolution changed from time to time. 5. We will problematize and discuss some of the established typologies of revolutions, such as social vs. political revolutions, and the theoretical hierarchy and privileges of certain revolutions over others. 6. Given these discussions, we will end the class with thinking together about the future of revolutions. READINGS: All required readings will be made available on Blackboard, so that you do not have to buy any books, unless you want to. Here are some recommended books to buy: Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. New York: Penguin Classics, 2006. 2 1 In the first week of classes, I will be sending a Zoom link to use for drop-in hours for the entire semester. When we schedule an appointment not during drop-in hours, I will send you a link as well. 2 Note that the list of revolutions discussed in this class is not comprehensive, but rather limited to a selection of important revolutions.
Book Teaser, 2020
Presenting a new framework for the study of revolutions, this innovative exploration of French, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, Iranian, South African, and more recent Arab revolutions, provides a theoretically grounded and empirically comprehensive demonstration of how revolutions mean more than mere state collapse and rebuilding. Through the examination of multiple historical case studies, and use of extensive historical examples to explore a range of revolutions, Mehran Kamrava reveals the range and depth of human emotion and motivations that are so prevalent and consequential in revolutions, from personal commitment to sacrifice, determination, leadership ability, charisma, opportunism, and avarice.
URSS, 2019
Methodological Introduction: The Approach to the Study of Regimes, Crises and Revolutions Part I SOCIAL ORDER, ITS VIOLATION AND CHANGE Chapter 1. The Multilevel Ontology of Social Stability Chapter 2. Political Relations,Typology of Legitimacy, . and Regimes’ Transformation Chapter 3. Neo-Patrimonialism: Nature, Diversity, and Variability Part II ORDER IN DISORDER: HISTORICAL ROLE, CAUSES, AND DYNAMICS OF REVOLUTIONS Chapter 4. Social Revolutions, Lines of Modernization and the Meaning of History Chapter 5. The Ripening of Crises and Revolutions . Chapter 6. Regularities and Trajectories of Revolutionary Dynamics Part III. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Chapter 7. The Russian Empire and Yugoslavia: Comparison of the State Breakdowns 145 Chapter 8. The Vector of the Great Russian Revolution (1905–1930): Modernization or Counter-Modernization? Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Conflict Dynamics in Petrograd 1917 Chapter 10. The Fall of the Monarchy: Forks and the Cascade of Events in the February Days Part IV. MACROSOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF REVOLUTIONS Chapter 11. Revolutionary Waves in World History: Types, Selection Criteria, and Causal Analysis Chapter 12. The Post-Soviet Regimes, Crises, and Revolutions Chapter 13. Principles and Criteria for Legitimacy of Post-Revolutionary Regimes Appendix 1. Acceleration of History: Causal Mechanisms and Limits Appendix 2. Randall Collins's Theories of Historical Dynamics and the Context of Russian Politics Appendix 3. Machine Guns and Army Democracy: an Essay in Historical Microsociology
Social Evolution & History, 2018
Graduate course (Fall 2015, Indiana University, Bloomington). The literature on revolutions is both immense and fascinating. We shall examine the works of some of the most important interpreters of these revolutionary moments as well as a few classic works on revolution (Hannah Arendt and, most recently, Martin Malia). It will include representative selections from Locke, Paine, Jefferson, Adams, Burke, The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers, Madame de Staël’s Considerations on the French Revolution, Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution and Recollections, Marx’s writings on the revolution of 1848 in France, and Lenin.
Third World Quarterly, 2020
We held the ‘Revolutions’ conference in 2017 to commemorate the Russian Revolution and redeem the actual record of revolutions in the Third World for the left. A quarter-century after the demise of the USSR, we found liberal capitalist triumphalism unwarranted. Two of the most important expectations to which it gave rise – that the world had become unipolar and that it would enjoy a peace dividend – remained unfulfilled. Instead, the world became multipolar and the West, led by the United States, engaged in unprecedented economic and military aggression against countries that contested its power. If this were not enough, social unrest and explosions in the First World as well as the Third underlined the relevance of revolutions. To trace their lineage, we recall capitalism’s intimate relation with revolution. It has needed revolutions to usher it into history and to usher it out. In addition to revolutions against developed capitalism, we also underline how important and necessary revolutions against nascent capitalism in various parts of the world have been. The contributions in this volume explore different parts of this lineage and vivify revolutions for our time.
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