I think the revolutionary process has become somewhat less consequential in some ways. The ability to bring about substantive change in the wake of revolution has deteriorated for one thing. We've gained certain things as well. I mean, revolutions are no longer as violent as they once were. They're more frequent than they once were, almost more normal in terms of being part of the political landscape in a way that they were not in the past.

Mark Beissinger

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Mark Beissinger is a professor of politics at Princeton University and the author of the new book The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion.

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Key Highlights

• An Account of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine
• Description of Urban Civic Revolutions
• Why are Revolutions more Successful than in the Past?
• Why are Revolutions Less Violent?
• How do Revolutions Continue to Change?

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