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Chirot, Daniel You Say You Want a Revolution? To discern the dynamics of major revolutions and to answer why revolutions led to pure conflicts, the author traces the grassroots in the appalling nature of most revolutionary outbreaks over the last centuries. Chirot presents a detailed depiction of consequential revolutionary outbreaks starting from the French revolution of 1789 as the iconic representation of a modern violent revolution to Russia's 1917 Bolshevik and also the Chinese and Iranian revolutions. [Extracted from the article]