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On revolutionary situations, stages of revolution, and some other aspects of the theory of revolution
One should note that although sometimes revolutions are a quite dangerous and costly way to reform a society (see Chapter “Revolutions, Counterrevolutions, and Democracy” [Grinin & Korotayev, 2022a, in this volume]; also Grinin, 2018a, 2018b, 2019; Grinin & Korotayev, 2014, 2016b, 2016c). So by no means have they become an archaic phenomenon in the contemporary world. That is why they attract great attention from researchers. But as already mentioned in Chapter “The Phenomenon and Theories of Revolutions” (Goldstone et al., 2022c, in this volume), there has not been elaborated any generally accepted theory of revolutions (see Goldstone, 2001b, 2014; Grinin et al., 2016b; Lawson, 2016; Skocpol, 1979; see also Grinin & Grinin, 2020; Sanderson, 2010; Shults, 2016). This gives an additional reason to discuss some important aspects of the theory of revolutions. We will present some ideas which we hope will contribute to this theory. This chapter to a certain extent continues the previous one (Chapter “The Phenomenon and Theories of Revolution” [Goldstone et al., 2022c, in this volume]), therefore it is organized as an analysis of some important aspects of the theory of revolutions, which have been weakly covered or not touched at all in Chapter “The Phenomenon and Theories of Revolutions” (Goldstone et al., 2022c) in the present collective monograph. But we do not attempt to systematically present a complete theory of revolutions