Overthrowing Revolution: The Popular Roots of Counterrevolution, 1900-2015

• In Event: Pacters & Protesters: Popular Pressure & Elite Control Amidst Regime Uncertainty

Brief Overview

This paper argues that counterrevolutions occur not through the unilateral efforts of old regime elites, but through an alliance of the old regime and key revolutionary forces. It tests this theory with data on counterrevolutions from 1900 to 2015.

Author

• Killian Bartlett Clarke, Princeton University