General Knowledge: The Revolutions

References

• Bibliography on the Revolutions
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• Definitions of Revolutions
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Philosophy

• Revolutions and civil wars – Montesquieu
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• Justice and strength – Pascal
  In Fragment 94, Blaise Pascal reflects on the relationship between justice and ...
• What is the Philosopher King?
  The philosopher king is a concept that comes to us from ...
• The government against the people
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• Social classes
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• Machiavelli – Avoiding Revolutions
  Machiavelli has a simple yet complex method for avoiding revolutions. Simple, because ...
• What is the Third Estate? Summary of Chapters 1 and 2
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• Plato – Summary of the Banquet
  I. We understand at first that it is Apollodorus who is going ...
• Epistemology : video on scientific revolutions in philosophy
  Epistemology : video on scientific revolutions in philosophy
• II. The waves of globalization
  A. 2 periods of globalization 1st period: from the industrial revolutions to ...

History

• The beginning of the Cold War and the Truman Doctrine – A popular history of US society after 1945
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• Political Consequences of the American Revolution
  The American Revolution and its political consequences According to Gaucho, this time ...
• Tensions and conflicts in the Middle and Near East during the Cold War (1948 – 1989)
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• The Black American Revolt
  To understand the project of a popular history of the United ...
• Short biography of Hugo Chávez
  On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, Hugo Chávez died. His historic personality ...
• History sheet: The wave of revolutions in Europe 1917-1923
  The Russian Revolution in February 1917 1. Russia: a weakened country —August 1914:170 million ...
• History sheet III. 4. totalitarian regimes: fascism, nazism, Joseph Stalinism
  III. From one war to another (1914–1939) 4. Totalitarian regimes: fascism, Nazism, ...
• Why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
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Sociology

• Social classes
  Is it fair that the chance of birth gives certain privileges? ...
• Aron – Preferring revolt to humiliation
  In Peace and War Between Nations, published in 1962, Raymond Aron ...
• Tocqueville – The French revolution comparable to religious revolutions
  Alexis de Tocqueville, who can be said to have been one ...

Method

• Do revolutions wipe out the past?
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• Is it still possible to preserve secrecy today?
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• Annals of the regional Sciences Po Competition
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• Mock questions on Revolutions
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