On Classification of Revolutions: An Attempt at a New Approach

Shults, Eduard E.

doi:10.30884/seh/2019.02.13

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“…Overall, the modernization theory dates back to the Enlightenment and is based on the idea of progress. The chief theoreticians of modernization in the 19thearly 20th centuries were Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim and, and Max Weber (Gilman, 2003;Inglehart & Welzel, 2005;Shults, 2019a). In the late 1950s through 1960s the modernization theory was one of the most popular in the Western hemisphere.…”

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Revolutions, Modernization And Contemporary Civilizations

Shults¹

2022

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The article addresses one of the fundamental issues in the theory of revolution -the problem of modernization in revolutions. The Modern history took several centuries in the history of mankind and formed a modern society. The transition to the state of Modern society was a revolutionary transition for humanity and often passed through precisely socio-political revolutions. The article is devoted to determining the key modernization consequences of revolutions and is based on an analysis of the sixtyfour revolutions of the XVII-XX centuries and several dozen examples of countries that avoided this socio-political phenomenon. The key problem is to include in the mandatory modernization processes of all revolutions, which structural elements are primary, and which were the result of changes launched by revolutions. The author is looking for answers to questions: what is modernization and how to consider various modernization processes? Are modernization processes integral and characteristic of the phenomenon of revolution? do revolutions necessarily lead to modernization and in what areas? The main conclusion: modernization, if we mean by it the transition from a traditional, rural, agrarian society to a secular, urban, industrial society, was an integral result of all the revolutions that formed modern civilizations.

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2022

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“…By the beginning of the 20th century, there was already a perception of revolutions as a process going on two stages in its development. (Attempts to attribute superiority in the authorship of the two-part model of revolutions: revolution -counterrevolution (reaction) -to some authors of the 20th century do not correspond to facts) [45].…”

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P. Sorokin’s Sociology of revolution in the context of theory of revolution of 19^th–20^th centuries

Shults

2023

SHS Web of Conf.

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The article is devoted to the analysis of Pitirim Sorokin’s book “The Sociology of Revolution” in the context of scientific achievements in the field of the theory of revolution. The author analyzes: first, those ideas and thoughts that formed the basis of Sorokin's concept in comparison with those approaches and ideas that existed in his time; Secondly, those ideas and approaches that had been developing in the 20th century under the influence of Sorokin’s book. The author considers, that Sorokin’s “The Sociology of Revolution” needs to be considered in the scientific context of researches on the causes of social protest from Aristotle to Enlightenment, researches on the English and Great French Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries and the development of the theory of revolution in the 19th century. The author concludes that Sorokin's “The Sociology of Revolution” had absorbed into its concept existing approaches and ideas, and became a bright conceptual work, which gave a way to several generations of researchers of the theory of revolution in the 20th century. And its great influence is still valid.

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Is the Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies Still Coming?

Grinin,

Korotayev

2024

Critical Sociology

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Introduction-Why Have We Chosen the Generational Aspect?Recently, several significant studies have been published on revolutions, various aspects of the theory of revolution, and revolutions of recent times-the 21st century. Some of these studies will be discussed in this review essay. These studies deserve the most careful reading and analysis, consideration of their strengths and weaknesses in relation to the aspect of research chosen by the authors, theoretical approaches, analysis of their methodology, or the depth of showing certain revolutionary events, which must be done. However, in this review essay, we will analyze these works from the point of view of considering the prospects of the so-called fifth generation of revolution studies. Of course, this generational approach is subject to criticism. For example, Radu-Alexandru Cucută (2013) talks about generational deadlock and writes that 'the generational perspective remains impermissibly flexible and elusive, ignoring the main paradigmatic debates within the field of study ' (p. 1107).Colin Beck and Daniel Ritter (2021) are also generally critical of this bias, which creates a false premise. They encourage us to look at ideas, rather than attributing them to one generation or another. There is a rational grain in this criticism. In no case should we limit ourselves to such an analysis or make the division into generations of researchers absolute. But, however, one cannot absolutize any approach as the only correct and true one. Each approach has its own advantages

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On Classification of Revolutions: An Attempt at a New Approach

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P. Sorokin’s Sociology of revolution in the context of theory of revolution of 19^th–20^th centuries

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