Ways of the World Chapter 20 SAQ 1 Page 919b-919c - Withrow
Use the passage below and your knowledge of world history to answer all parts of the question that follows.
All revolutions have liberté, egalité, fraternité, and other noble slogans inscribed on their banners. All revolutionaries are enthusiasts, zealots; all are utopians, with dreams of creating a new world in which the injustice, corruption, and apathy of the old world are banished forever. They are intolerant of disagreement; incapable of compromise; mesmerized by big, distant goals; violent, suspicious, and destructive. Revolutionaries are unrealistic and inexperienced in government; their institutions and procedures are extemporized. They have the intoxicating illusion of personifying the will of the people, which means they assume the people is monolitic. They are Manicheans, dividing the world into two camps: light and darkness, the revolution and its enemies. They despise all traditions, received wisdom, icons, and superstition.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, 2017
Question 1
Identify ONE revolution in the period 1750 to 1900 that has the characteristics described in the passage.
Question 2
Explain how ONE movement in the twentieth century supports the author's contention that revolutionaries seek to overcome injustice and corruption.
Question 3
Explain how a global conflict in the twentieth century contributed to the success of a revolutionary movement.
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