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Revolutionary Waves of the Second Half of the 20th Century:
an Interplay between Geopolitics, Violence, and Legitimacy

Rozov N.S.,

Professor, Principal Researcher, Institute for Philosophy and Law (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences); Head of Department for Social Philosophy and Political Science, Novosibirsk State University (NSU); Professor, Novosibirsk State Technical University, nrozov@gmail.com

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Pustovoit Yu.A.,

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Technology, Siberian Institute of Management (Novosibirsk, The Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), pustovoit1963@gmail.com

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Filippov S.I.,

Deputy Director of the Institute for the Humanities of Novosibirsk State University (NSU), filippov.nsu@gmail.com

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Tsygankov V.V.,

Associate Professor, Specialized Educational-Scientific Center of the Novosibirsk State University (NSU), oktava-77@yandex.ru

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DOI: 10.17976/jpps/2019.02.03

Rubric: Theme of the Issue: the Problem of Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Knowledge in Political Science

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Rozov N.S., Pustovoit Yu.A., Filippov S.I., Tsygankov V.V. Revolutionary Waves of the Second Half of the 20th Century: an Interplay between Geopolitics, Violence, and Legitimacy. – Polis. Political Studies. 2019. No. 2. P. 24-40. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2019.02.03

Abstract

Revolutionary waves that unite successive interrelated revolutions represent macro-political wholes, which, on the one hand, have their own patterns of dynamics; on the other hand, they are included in regional and world processes. The article presents the conceptual framework of the approach, the main hypotheses about the dynamics of the revolutionary waves in these aspects, as well as the reasons for the characteristics of several waves of the second half of the 20th century: in Africa and the Caribbean Gulf approx. 1960, in Southeast Asia, 1950-1960s, in Central Europe in the late 1980s. Waves are influenced by geopolitical tensions, ideological trends, but they themselves change geopolitics, geo-economics, geo-culture on the corresponding continent or even in the whole world. Individual revolutions in each wave and the waves themselves are characterized by very different levels of violence. Sometimes they are affected by civil and/or international wars; sometimes they are rather peaceful. Post-revolutionary regimes are recognized to varying degrees by opposing coalitions of powers as well as by global international organizations. This is always connected with positions in ideological struggle, with political and military support, as well as with the scale of homicide, and (non)justification of the admitted violence. Thus, geopolitics, violence and legitimacy of revolutionary waves constitute a single dynamic complex with regularities that are revealed on the historical data mentioned above 

Keywords

revolutionary waves, geopolitics, ideology, the cold war, communist revolutions, velvet revolutions, the level of violence in revolutions, the legitimacy of political regimes, postrevolutionary regimes.

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