Revolutions in Modern World History

Course content

This course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of revolutions in modern world history in order to evaluate their importance in the making of states, societies and modern political forms and norms in different parts of the world. The first part of the course aims to make a historical overview of some selected revolutions in world history from the 17th century to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 by problematizing their historically specific domestic as well as global reasons and implications. The second part of the course problematize the revolutionary popular uprisings in different countries/regions since 1989.