Revolution: structure and human agency -- Structural factors of revolution -- The making of monarchs -- Louis XVI and the collapse of the Bourbon state -- Nicholas II and the collapse of the Romanov state -- Mohammad Resa Shah and the collapse of the Pahlavi state -- The making of revolution: conclusions
Summary
What causes revolution? What brought about the end of the last major monarchies of the modern period? Were Louis XVI, Nicholas II, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the unwitting victims of historical circumstance, or did their own actions help to bring about the revolutions that overthrew them? This powerful and original book is the first comparative study of the revolutions in Bourbon France, Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran. Zhand Shakibi analyses fully the timing and causes of these three revolutions and reveals the important similarities between them. "Revolutions and the Collapse of Monarchy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-282) and index
