STAGES OF REVOLUTION

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STAGES OF REVOLUTION
Adapted from Crane Brintons book, The Anatomy
of Revolution
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REVOLUTION A VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF A GOVERNMENT
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PRELIMINARY(Incubation in the Fever Model)

• Class antagonism
• Economic upgrade, which does not reach the
  people
• Government inefficiency
• Inept rulerAutocrat with absolute power

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PRELIMINARY(Incubation)

• People ask for change (justice)
• Autocrat attempts to stop early protests with
  force (terror), which fails

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PRELIMINARY(Incubation)

• Intellectuals transfer their loyalty from
  government to the people

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FIRST STAGE(Symptomatic)

• Financial breakdown
• Protests against government increase
  dramatically

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FIRST STAGE(Symptomatic)

• Moderates gain power relatively peacefully
• Revolutionary underground (radicals) foment
  revolution

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FIRST STAGE(Symptomatic)

• Mob psychology
• Ignorant
• Emotional
• Now wants revenge

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CRISIS STAGE

• Radicals take control
• Remove moderates
• Enemies attempt to stop radicals
• Civil war
• Foreign war

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CRISIS STAGE

• Centralization of power in a revolutionary
  council
• Council dominated by a strongman
• Use common term of address

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CRISIS STAGE

• Try to kill original autocrat
• Use terror to rule

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RECOVERY(Convalescence)

• Revolution turns inward
• Radicals removed
• Some killed
• Charismatic autocrat comes to power

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RECOVERY(Convalescence)

• Aggressive nationalism
• Slow, uneven return to quieter times
• People trade freedom for security

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FRENCH REVOLUTION
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PRELIMINARY

• Class antagonism
• Heavy, increasing taxes on 3rd Estate
• Government inefficiency
• AutocratLouis XVI
• Ignored growing bourgeoisie

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PRELIMINARY

• People ask for change
• Cahiers de Doleances
• Autocrats failed attempts to stop early
  protests
• National Assembly locked out of meeting place
• Ordered NA not to meet

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PRELIMINARY

• Intellectuals transfer their loyalty
• Philosophes
• Enlightened public

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FIRST STAGE

• Financial breakdown
• Wheat famine
• High bread prices
• Protests against government
• Storming of Bastille

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FIRST STAGE

• Moderates
• Estates-General
• National Assembly
• National Constitutional Convention

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FIRST STAGE

• Revolutionary underground
• Jacobins

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CRISIS STAGE

• Radicals take control
• Mobs in Paris took Convention

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CRISIS STAGE

• Enemies
• Civil war
• Louis XVI
• Nobles/Emigres
• Foreign war
• Austria
• England

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CRISIS STAGE

• Revolutionary council
• Committee of Public Safety
• Strongman
• Robespierre
• Common term of address
• Citizen

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CRISIS STAGE

• Kill original autocrat
• Womens March on Versailles
• Flight to Varennes
• Louis XVI/Marie guillotined
• Use terror to rule
• Reign of Terror

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RECOVERY

• Revolution turns inward
• Thermidorean Reaction
• Danton/Robespierre killed
• Charismatic autocrat
• Directory
• Napoleon

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RECOVERY

• Aggressive nationalism
• Napoleonic Wars
• Quieter times
• End of terror
• Trade freedom for security
• Empire

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STAGES OF REVOLUTION
Adapted from Crane Brintons book, The Anatomy
of Revolution