The Independent - London, October 9th, 1996
It was an Age of Revolutions. Some failed, most succeeded. But the years from 1986 to 1996, which saw so much change across the world, transformed our understanding of what a revolution is.
Revolution, says the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, is either "a complete overthrow of the established government. . . by those who were previously subject to it" or "a forcible substition of a new ruler or form of government". In other words, a revolution can be a popular uprising or a palace coup, and a degree of violence or upheaval seems essential for an event to qualify as revolutionary.
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