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Comparative Approaches to the Study of Revolution: A Historiographic Essay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

William E. Lipsky
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When Crane Brinton published his Anatomy of Revolution in 1938, he noted in his bibliography fewer than thirty titles in English that dealt in general terms with revolution. Today a comprehensive listing would include some ten times that number of articles and books, and such proliferation seems likely to continue as scholars go on with their examination of revolution as a theoretical problem and in a number of theoretical and historical contexts. Like Brinton, most have taken a comparative approach, attempting to develop a conceptual framework capable of explaining the nature and the occurrence of all revolutionary movements. More recent studies, however, have moved in the direction of placing revolution in broader contexts.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 494 - 509
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1976

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