Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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All revolutions are unique, for roughly the same reasons that, as Tolstoy said, all unhappy families are unhappy in different ways. In The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Crane Brinton, the Harvard historian, attempted to formulate the stages of revolution. First, in Brinton's model, comes the euphoric phase...
Brinton was following the classic pattern of European revolutions, which can translate only partially into other times and other cultures. But some events of the Iranian revolution already correspond disconcertingly to the Brinton pattern: the first euphoria of victory dissolving into factionalism, and now some possibility that leftists among the...
For every point of historical comparison, Iran offers at least one anomalous or unprecedented detail. The role of mass electronics was rather weird, causing the McLuhanesque web to thrum with a new note. Ubiquitous transistor radios and cassette tape recorders with messages relayed over telephone lines to some 9,000...
The most interesting and socially entangled factor in the Iranian revolution has been the role of the Muslim religion. The Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution was aimed to a large extent at restoration, a re-establishment of the Islamic spirituality and law that had been, so the faithful believed, desecrated...
Islam proved to be a liberating vehicle, although an ironic one, to Western eyes. There are several layers of paradox in the relationship between religion and revolution. The word revolution first entered the English language as a political term around 1600, and implied restoration of the old order. Later revolutions...