Theory and History of Revolution

Theories of revolution formulated by social scientists are imaginative and insightful, but they deal only with some cases of revolution, and they propose incomplete analyses. These theories are largely ignored by other social scientists and by historians, whose many studies of individual revolutions customarily overlook theory. Discussion here of cases of revolution and related issues suggests that theorists and comparative historians need awareness of each other's work and of the many revolutions of millennia past.