Revolution and the Social System
About this book
Preface to the book This paper was prepared as a contribution to the panel on "Theories on Modern Revolution and Violence" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 4-7, 1963. I want to thank Professor Sheldon Wolin, chairman of the panel, and Professor Ernst Haas, both of whom read and criticized the first draft. I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of my students in the graduate seminar on revolutionary strategy at Berkeley, where these ideas were first expounded and explored. The framework for analyzing revolutions offered here is an outline for a larger study of revolution now in progress. I welcome critical comments on this formulation from interested readers. Chalmers Johnson Department of Political Science University of California Berkeley, California