Abstract
The subject of the study is the category of revolution. The author tries to understand how revolution as a legitimate government overthrow of a sovereign nation works as a concept in current political situation. In her view, since the Islamic Revolution in Iran it becomes quite impossible to classify the revolution as the bourgeois and socialist, since 1991 - to talk about it in line with the theory of change of social formations. In her article the author analyzes the results of the overthrow of the government during the revolution as a legitimate act, and explains why, in her view, the concept of the revolution is “dead”. The category of revolution is studied by the author through techniques of political Conceptology. As the methods of investigation the author used comparative, historical method, and methods of analytic philosophy. The main conclusion of the study is the exhaustion of modern concept of revolution because of its ambiguity and elevated semantic load, which are stretching the notion of enabling and legitimizing any illegal overthrow of the government, including those which are not in the interests of “sovereign nation”. The concept of revolution in the way in which we are accustomed to perceive it, has exhausted itself, because it consists of continuous fiction, but in today's world radically change the structure of suppression and oppression.
Highlights
Revolution is a fundamental, sense-making concept for many modern states on all continents
This definition is taken from the article written by Boris Kapustin, as I, like him, doubt the possibility to phrase the general theory of revolution, in spite of huge layer of works which classify those revolutions that we know from history, and emphasize some general stages of them
Boris Kapustin’s remark that it is impossible to analyze the concept of revolution out of the category of freedom seems to me absolutely fair [12
Summary
The author tries to understand how revolution as a legitimate government overthrow of a sovereign nation works as a concept in current political situation. In her view, since the Islamic Revolution in Iran it becomes quite impossible to classify the revolution as the bourgeois and socialist, since 1991 — to talk about it in line with the theory of change of social formations. I would like to discuss revolutions in this particular sense (as legitimate overthrows of the authority by sovereign citizens), as to my mind, since the Islamic revolution in Iran, it becomes absolutely impossible to classify revolutions as bourgeois and socialistic, since 1991 — reason about them in the line with the theory of social formation change. In order to prove inconsistency of modern revolutions with classical definition, I will introduce the examples from recent history: “Arab spring” and “color revolutions” in the post-Soviet territory
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