Revolution

For the homonymous articles, to see Revolution (homonymy).

One revolution is an important and fast change in the life of people. These changes can as well relate to social aspects or policies that economic or technical aspects.

In another direction, revolution of a body indicates its rotation of a full rotation (2?) around an axis. One calls period of revolution time that it puts to carry out a complete revolution. For example the period of revolution of around is 365,25 days.

Political and social revolutions

The social and political revolutions can be characterized, in certain cases, by the use of violence (or of non-violent conflict) to involve vast changes of the social hierarchies, it was for example the case at the time of the Russian and French revolutions (with the "purgings" and Terror, respectively). It is finished not only when its protagonists left the political scene, but when their successors succeed in imposing their re-examined and corrected version history. In this direction the French revolution succeeded overall in spite of the abandonment of whereas the Russian revolution implosé in 1991.

Liberal revolutions

First English revolution (-)
Second English revolution (-)
American revolution (-)
(-)
Batavian revolution (-)
Three Glorious (, )
Belgian revolution , ()
Revolution of 1848 (, ) [ largely incomplete ]
German revolution ()
Revolution of the?illets (, )
Velvet revolution (, )
Rumanian revolution (), Fall of dictator Nicolae Ceau?escu
Otpor (IE. "Resistance", into Serb) (Serbia, ). Régime shoots du of Slobodan Milo?evi?.
Revolution of the pinks (, )
Orange revolution (, )
Revolution of the cedar (, 2005)
Revolution of the Tulips Kirghizstan, 2005

Libertarian revolutions

Commune of Paris ()
Spanish revolution (-)

Revolutions Marxists

Commune of Paris (1871)
Russian revolution ()
Revolution spartakist ()
Cuban revolution () (prone to guarantee, it acts for the majority of the Marxists of a middle-class national revolution)

Islamist revolutions

Iranian revolution ()

Social revolutions

Haitian revolution (, revolt of slaves)
(since the Seventies)
Quiet revolution ()

Economic and technical revolutions

Agricultural revolution
Industrial revolution (vapor and electric)
Data-processing revolution
Biomolecular revolution
Quantum revolution

Citations

The revolution is a transition between an old order which falls in ruin and a new order which is based. (Littre)
Lord, it is not a revolt, it is a revolution. (Duke of Rochefoucauld à Louis XVI) (July 1789)
Il ne peut and to avoir révolution that là où il and to conscience. (Jean Jaurès)
Revolution that wants to say to make a turn on the spot. I prefer the evolution has the revolution (Gerard Jugnot)