On revolutionary waves since the 16th century

P. 389–411.

Grinin L. E.

Authors distinguished 12 waves in European countries from the sixteenth to twentieth century. We agree with seven of them (namely, the Calvinist I/Second Reformation from 1566; the Revolutions of 1830; the Revolutions of 1848; the Democratic/Constitutional revolutions of the beginning of the twentieth century; the revolutions following World War I; the revolutions following World War II; and the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of communism) and disagree with the other waves (namely, the Calvinist II/Thirty Years’ War from 1618; the Atlantic Revolutions from 1773; the Greek War of Independence of 1821–1831; the Balkan Crisis of 1875; and the wave of Fascism in 1926–1939). Let us consider which of them we reject and why.

Keywords: revolutions, Revolutionary Wave

Publication based on the results of: New revolution wave at the Afrasian instability zone (2022)

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Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century. The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change

Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Karasev D., Rozov N., Grinin A., Selbin E., Mitchell L., Goldstone J. Springer, 2022.