revolution
Let an agent explain revolution as a concept and its kinds, relay theories and comparative research with attribution, present historical revolutions neutrally, and distinguish revolution from coups, reforms and rebellions.
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Understand What a revolution is.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a revolution, and how do political, social and other kinds differ? definition
- Is the event a revolution, a coup, a civil war or a reform? boundary
Theories
Theories.
Theories
Theories.
- What theories explain revolutions, from Marx and Brinton to Skocpol and Goldstone, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
History Historical revolutions.
Cases
Major revolutions.
Cases
Cases.
- How do historians describe the major revolutions, including 1848 in the German states, with interpretations attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific revolution? action
Waves
Revolutionary waves.
Waves
Waves.
- How do revolutions spread in waves, and what does research say about diffusion? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Process Process and outcomes.
Process
Process.
Process
Process.
- How do revolutions unfold, including mobilisation, strikes and violence, as scholars describe? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and non-operational? boundary
Outcomes
Outcomes.
Outcomes
Outcomes.
- What do comparative studies say about outcomes of violent and non-violent revolutions, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits civil resistance? action
Context Extended senses and culture.
Extended
Extended senses.
Extended
Extended.
- How is revolution used for industrial, scientific, managerial and technological change? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific extended sense? action
Culture
Culture and memory.
Culture
Culture.
- How are revolutions remembered and represented in culture, with attribution? provenance
- Which entry fits historical memory? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- revolutionary general strike, Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, violent revolution, export of revolution, managerial revolution, social revolution, communist revolution, proletarian revolution, nonviolent revolution, sexual revolution, democratic revolution, technological revolution
What it is Filled
A fundamental and relatively rapid change in political power, social order or economic organisation, typically through mass mobilisation and often through force, as in the American, French, Russian, Chinese and Iranian revolutions and the revolutions of 1848 across Europe including the German states, with variants such as social revolution, violent revolution, revolutionary general strikes and the export of revolution, and extended uses such as the managerial revolution; revolutions are studied comparatively for causes, processes and outcomes.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain revolution as a concept and its kinds, relay theories and comparative research with attribution, present historical revolutions neutrally, and distinguish revolution from coups, reforms and rebellions.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Fundamental change
- Mass participation
- Contested legitimacy
- Comparative study
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assist in planning or carrying out violence against people or institutions.
- Deny or minimize documented atrocities committed during a revolution.
- Identify participants in a current uprising to those who may punish them.
- Present one side's account of a current upheaval as the established record.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing anything that identifies participants in a current political upheaval.
May
- Explain revolutions, their causes and outcomes from reliable historical sources.
- Present contested accounts of a revolution with their sources and disagreements.
Moral aspects Filled
- Revolutions kill and displace people, and accounts of them justify present politics.
- Participants and their families face reprisals for years afterwards.
Who is affected
- Participants and their families
- Minorities targeted during upheaval
- Civilians caught in violence
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; archives and historians hold the records.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1510761 - registry parent class
- Q1673271 - registry parent class
- Q180684 - registry parent class
related
- regime change - in registry terms
- social change - in registry terms
- conflict - in registry terms
- coup - a narrow seizure of power
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.revolution
- Wikidata: Q10931 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10931)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Fundamental rapid change in political or social order
- Political, social, violent and non-violent revolutions
- A coup is a seizure of power by a small group; reform is gradual change; a rebellion may not aim at transformation
- Not a visible object; mass events and regime change.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept and kinds
- relay theories with attribution
- present historical cases neutrally
- distinguish from coups and reforms
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Partisan framing of revolutions
- Presenting contested histories as settled
- Conflating revolution with coup or civil war
- Glorifying or condemning violence without attribution
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- International law on the recognition of governments
- No regulation of the concept
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a form of change.
- political revolutions
- social revolutions transforming class structures
- violent and non-violent revolutions
- waves such as 1848, 1989 and the Arab Spring
- revolutionary strategies such as the general strike and export of revolution
- extended uses such as industrial, scientific and managerial revolutions
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q10931: revolution - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Revolution - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should social revolution and revolutionary wave be separate entries?
- How should comparative research be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific events, strategies and extended senses; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q10931/spec.json