Discuss EITHER the first five OR last five phases of a successful revolution, making sure you provide specific details and explanations for each phase.

10 Phases of a Successful Revolution as the following

Intellectuals

Reforms

“If the necessity for [reforms] comes in troubled times, you are too late for harsh measures; and mild ones will not help you, for they will be considered as forced from you, and no one will be under any obligation to you for them.” Who said it?

Acute political crisis – government’s inability to deal

Revolutionary alliance & internal conflict

3 factions . . .

Post-rev government = moderate

Radical Revolutionaries

Radicals & extreme methods

Exceptions?

Wars of colonial liberation . . .

When do radicals supplant the moderates?

Coercive rule & “terror”

Military leaders

Pragmatic/moderate revolutionaries return/come to power