Analyzing the causes behind thirty six revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present, this text attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico (1910), China (1949), Cuba (1959), Iran (1979)and Nicaragua (1979), the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabw… More >>
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
John Foran presents a highly sophisticated theoretical framework for the analysis of revolutions on the periphery of world capitalist system. He combines objective factors like dynamism of dependent development, attitude of dominant imperialist powers and subjective factors like class alliances and political culture of opposition to propose a theory that explains why revolutions in the Third World happen and why not all of the sucseed.
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