Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Semester of Degree Completion
1990
Thesis Director
Abdul Lateef
Abstract
This essay is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in political science at the graduate school of Eastern Illinois University. The essay intended to elaborate the basic definitions, theories, ideologies and causes of political revolution.
This thesis relates historical facts and events of the American, Russian, Cuban and Iranian Revolutions to the causes, definitions, theories, and ideologies of general revolutions. The main theme is that governments' failures caused the continued social unrest such as demonstrations, strikes and upheavals. When an opposition group was well organized and represented by intellectuals equipped with political theories and ideologies they changed the social unrest into a revolution.
Recommended Citation
Gebil, Alazar, "Causes of Political Revolution" (1990). Masters Theses. 2296.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2296
