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Review: The Circumstances and Causes of RevolutionAuthor(s): James C. DaviesSource: The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jun., 1967), pp. 247-257Published by: Sage Publications, Inc.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/172923 .Accessed: 22/07/2011 07:08
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Nationalism and Power:Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945
Calif.: 1962. Pp. 256. 86.50, $2.95.
Ch'~n, Mao and the Revolution1965. Pp. 419. $7.,50.
Kecskemeti, Revolution: Social in the
1961.
D. LasswellPp.
James Rosenan (ed.), ofN.J.: Pp.
J. NomosVlllNew 1966. 246.
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ofall-encompassing case
Snow's Red
over (1938), two tothe
case gen-of
ofareas--the of
andand
Kecskemeffs of the
The Revolution, andthe of the
(p. 154)
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the com-it
1917and 1789 just
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Kecskemeti theit for
came the
of
sub-by Lasswell
Kuomintang
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ten Lasswell resepectively,
to nonelites, inLasswell
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252
ineluctable
the bold
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isbut likeseismology.
nmch of the in twothe of revolu-
tionmor the forof
the Halpern
of allsociety--the
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Macphersonthe
of ofeconomic,
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about. Kamenka the
only in underdevelopedin
veloped He
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1956.In definitional
unsolved,tmTiblyget
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of Halpern'sof two
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in two
discipline--the of
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(pp.15-17). Rosenauof
offor
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explanations forabout--as long
NUMnER 2VOLUME XI
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254
nal War. Petteenot toin
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men mannot ill-
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255REVIEWS
re-1962).1 brief
of the
only notabout but
the unit of ofof the
the infrom
the of
is takeof
of
Maslow (1943), butnot I four major ofbasic the social-affec-
tional, self-esteemof self-actuaization.
of protorevolutionarywill of dif-
of forwill from to
For dep-after
thecal for
to For
equal--thatcategorical--recognition,
to turnthe
of
be,of of the
now in after pas-of such city-the
nation-state. m'eto end
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species-wide of orto after each
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overt action, ac-
macrocosmic
amoral amongfight amoral
theby
Kuomintang theof to at-
tractto which can
into
Brinton) toity. comes and comes
of race, color,of
to
which
of Eckstein196.5,p. (1966); and in Klo?a6
and Tlusty (1965, pp. 281-85).
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256
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from the
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revolutionaries--whetherof the
of foodcause for
for of toself-esteem by
Anot
(self-actualization),his (by
investigation), (byAlexander
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of tyrannicide. Such the caseof Ilyitch Ulyanov.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION VOLUME XI NUMBEIt 2
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REVIEWS 257
Two ofJ-curve
level,of of of
to ofthe ispsychological eco-
It only abstracting the levelof of subsume allindividuals--whether
thein
of colonialpolice; of
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joint of
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