02792cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000310012624500300015725000190018726400510020630000470025733600260030433700260033033800360035650000920039250000310048450801890051552015840070453400560228865300160234485600510236085600430241178065UtSlPG20260610134817.0mcr n260607r20261938utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a38027847  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aJC1 aBrinton, Crane,d1898-196814aThe anatomy of revolution  aFirst edition. 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Revolution  aRelease date is 2026-02-27  aTim Lindell, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  aThe Anatomy of Revolution is a 1938 book by Crane Brinton outlining the "uniformities" of four major political revolutions: the English Revolution of the 1640s, the American, the French, and the Russian revolutions. Brinton notes how the revolutions followed a life-cycle from the Old Order to a moderate regime to a radical regime, to Thermidorian reaction. 
The book has been called "classic, "famous", and a "watershed in the study of revolution" and has been influential enough to have inspired advice given to US President Jimmy Carter by his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski during the Iranian Revolution. It has been referenced in the well-known text Political Science: An Introduction by Michael G. Roskin et al.
A revised edition was published in 1952, a revised and expanded edition in 1965, and the book remains in print. Brinton summarizes the revolutionary process as moving from "financial breakdown, [to] organization of the discontented to remedy this breakdown … revolutionary demands on the part of these organized discontented, demands which if granted would mean the virtual abdication of those governing, attempted use of force by the government, its failure, and the attainment of power by the revolutionists. These revolutionists have hitherto been acting as an organized and nearly unanimous group, but with the attainment of power it is clear that they are not united. The group which dominates these first stages we call the moderates … power passes by violent … methods from Right to Left" (p. 253). (This summary is from Wikipedia.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: W. W. Norton, 1938  aRevolutions4 uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.3901500272309940uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78065