Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
Who said that revolution means a drastic and sudden substitution of one group in charge of the running of a territorial political entity by another?
AHannah Arendt
BTheda Skocpol
CCrane Brinton ✓ Correct
DHubert Johnson
Correct answer: (C) Crane Brinton — The thinker who defined revolution as a drastic, sudden replacement of one ruling group by another within a political entity is Crane Brinton, so the answer is option 3.
Explanation
★The thinker who defined revolution as a drastic, sudden replacement of one ruling group by another within a political entity is Crane Brinton, so the answer is option 3.
★Brinton set this out in The Anatomy of Revolution (1938), where he compared revolution to a fever that rises, breaks and subsides.
★Drawing on the English, French, American and Russian revolutions, he traced a common pattern from moderate beginnings to a radical crisis such as the Reign of Terror, followed by a Thermidorian reaction.
★Hannah Arendt wrote On Revolution (1963), contrasting the American and French revolutions.
★Theda Skocpol wrote States and Social Revolutions (1979), a structural theory of revolution.
★Spotting cue: the fever model and The Anatomy of Revolution always identify Crane Brinton.
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