BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- AGKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I THE FRONTIERS OF STRUCTURES -- 1 STATE-CENTERED APPROACHES TO SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS -- FOUR TYPES OF STATE-CENTERED ANALYSIS -- ANALYTIC STRENGTHS OF STATE-CENTERED APPROACHES TO REVOLUTIONS -- The centrality of state power and state breakdowns -- The formation of revolutionary movements -- SOME COMMON CRITICISMS OF STATE-CENTERED APPROACHES -- LIMITATIONS OF STATE-CENTERED APPROACHES -- THE CASE OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- 2 STRUCTURAL THEORIES OF REVOLUTION -- STRUCTURAL THEORIZING AND THE ALTERNATIVES -- What is a structural theory? -- Structure versus process in revolution? -- Structural versus cultural views of revolution: Skocpol and her critics -- Mapping the terrain of revolutionary theory -- STRUCTURAL THEORIES OF REVOLUTIONARY PHENOMENA -- What do (should?) theorists of revolution study? -- 1. What are the sources of grievances in the population (as compared to non-aggrieved population groups in other times, places)? -- 2. What makes population (sub-)groups actively insurrectionary (or not)? -- 3. Which societies experience successful social revolutions, and which do not? -- 4. What explains the similarities and differences in state policies and social changes following the revolutionary seizure of power? -- Structural theory and population grievances -- Mass grievances -- Marginal elite grievances -- Structural theory and mass insurrections -- Capacities and opportunities -- States and rebels -- Structural theory and successful social revolutions -- Structural theory and postrevolutionary changes -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 3 AGENTS OF REVOLUTION -- SINGLE UNIFIED ELITES -- REVOLUTIONS UNDER CHANGING ELITE STRUCTURES -- STABLE MULTIPLE ELITES.

HEIGHTENED ELITE CONFLICT -- EFFECTS OF REVOLUTION UPON ELITE CONFLICT AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 4 POPULATION GROWTH AND REVOLUTIONARY CRISES -- POPULATION GROWTH AND POLITICAL CRISES IN HISTORY -- POPULATION PRESSURES AND INSTITUTIONAL FAILURES -- Decline in state capacity -- Elite displacement and conflicts -- Mass mobilization potential -- Activating ideologies of opposition -- PREVENTING AND MITIGATING POLITICAL CRISES -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- Part II RE-CENTERING CULTURE AND AGENCY -- 5 REVOLUTION IN THE REAL WORLD -- THE BRIEF FOR AGENCY AND CULTURE -- Agency: ideas, ideals, and learning -- Culture: stories of resistance and rebellion -- The marriage of agency and culture: the social context of politics -- Collective memory and symbolic politics -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 6 GENDER AND REVOLUTIONS -- EN-GENDERING REVOLUTION -- REVOLUTIONS AND WOMEN'S INTERESTS -- REVOLUTIONS AND GENDERED OUTCOMES: A TYPOLOGY AND FRAMEWORK -- THE WOMAN-IN-THE-FAMILY MODEL OF REVOLUTION -- The Algerian case -- The Iranian case -- The case of East Central Europe -- THE WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION MODEL OF REVOLUTION -- The case of Turkey -- The case of South Yemen -- The case of Afghanistan -- The Nicaraguan case -- CONCLUSIONS: REVOLUTIONS, STATE-BUILDING, AND GENDER -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 7 RACE AND THE PROCESS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS -- RACE IN THE AMERICAS -- RACE AND THE ANTI-COLONIAL REVOLUTIONS -- AMERINDIANS AND IDENTITY IN THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION -- THE COLOR OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION -- AFRO-AMERINDIANS, AUTONOMY, AND THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 8 DISCOURSES AND SOCIAL FORCES -- STUDYING CULTURE/CULTURAL STUDIES -- REVOLUTION AND CULTURE -- DISCOURSES AND SOCIAL FORCES: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH -- THE ORIGINS PROBLEM -- France -- Iran.

Eastern Europe -- THE OUTCOMES PROBLEM -- Cuba -- El Salvador -- Nicaragua -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- 9 THE COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF THIRD WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS -- THEORIES OF THIRD WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTIONS -- RESULTS -- Type One: successful Third World social revolutions -- Type Two: anti-colonial (social) revolutions -- Type Three: reversed social revolutions -- Type Four: attempted social revolutions -- Type Five: political revolutions -- Type Six: no attempt at revolution -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.