The Social Origins Of Dictatorship And Democracy

In Barrington Moore’s book Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, the ideas put forward by the author mainly consider the political roles of landlords and peasants in the transformation of an agrarian society into a modern one. He adopts a neo-Marxist approach to address the emergence of social classes and inter-class coalitions.

The French Revolution was a bloody civil war that lasted from the years 1789-1799. [1] The revolution arose out of hard economic times that had befallen France. Widespread famine and hunger, due to a grain shortage, rampaged through sections of the country. The economic crisis led to an increase in taxes on the lower classes, known as the third estate, to upkeep the lavish lifestyle of the nobility. [1] All of these are the known factors that led to the rise of the French Revolution.

First, one primary factor of the French Revolution was the Enlightenment. Specifically, the Enlightenment was an age of “scientific and philosophical thought” in the 18th century (An Analysis 1). The ideas that came from this age were natural rights, the sovereignty of citizens, and equal rights for everybody under the law along with questioning the divine right of the king (An Analysis 1). The Enlightenment was one primary factor because it provided ideas that the commoners wanted as it placed them at a fair and basic level in comparison to the other classes alongside questioning the validity of the monarchy. Another example was it inspired the American Revolution, where the colonists fought and won the right to govern themselves from England (An Analysis 1). This proved that a winning a

An increase in prices, a lack of capital, and billions of national debt naturally led to the revolution inevitable. France’s economical climate was greatly influenced by Britain’s control of the commercial market. In addition to adverse economical conditions, France had no central bank, no paper currency, and no means of obtaining more money, as their tax system really taxed the poor. Similar to the Russians, the French people realized that King Louis XVI was harming the country, and the three levels of class systems could not come to terms. Moreover, just like Bolsheviks were fighting with Anti-Bolsheviks, conflict between radical Jacobins and liberal Girondins and the significant Reign of Terror played a key role in leading to and sustaining the revolution.

The French Revolution took place during 1789 and 1799 in France. King Louis XIV needed money and passed an unfair tax. There were three Estates; the first; the clergy, the second; the nobles and the third; everyone else. The king did not seek any advice when putting the tax in place which caused a lot of unrest in the third estate. This was one incident that lead up to the French Revolution. The French Revolution was unsuccessful because it did not achieve freedom for the French people and it was bloody.

The kingdom of France was ruled by an Ancient Régime of the Monarchy, the clergy and the nobility for centuries and centuries. During the XVIII there was a lot of inequality between the moneyed and powerful clergy and the commoners. All the inequality of the time caused the French Revolution, a period in which the people gave an end the absolute monarchy and took control of the Government. There were two main reasons the French Revolution started; the Enlightenment Ideas and the social inequality of the moment. The commoners outraged and fought against Louis XVI and the absolute monarchy of the moment.

France had a crippling government and other countries wanted to take advantage of them, forcing them into The Seven Years’ War. The colonies in North America were taken by the British, so when the colonies fought for freedom in the American Revolutionary War, France aided the colonies. France had a Revolution after the country became finically unstable from it efforts in the American Revolution. The Revolution was led by the middle, and lower working class. The working class had them most success when they murdered the King and restored Christianity.

France was ruled by King Louis XVI and he split France up into three social classes also known as estates. In the first estate there were the royals(kings, queens,etc). In the second estate you have their kids and their protectors. Meaning, you have the prince, the duke, the princess, the knights,etc. Lastly in the third estate you have the people who are financially stable but not rich or wealthy,but you also have the people who are not financially stable. The problem was, the people of the third estate is having major problems because they are the poorest people but they had to pay the most taxes. This made complications with all the estates. Eventually, the states decided that they shouldn’t be arguing with each other they should be rising up against the king because really it’s not the other estates fault. The whole French Revolution was basically to get the King overthrown as a King. Therefore, they decided to start to rise against the King. This was the start of the French

Throughout history, there have been many Revolutions. The French Revolution was a revolution that changed France history completely. The French Revolution did not only changed history, but changed France’s historical monarchy government to a more republic government. The poor French citizens got the courage to start a revolution from the American Revolution. The French Revolution started at 1789 and ended at 1799. It was the most important event that changed the Western Civilization history. The French Revolution was caused by its “Economic hardship, its absolute ruler: Louis XVI, international struggles, and political conflict.”1 The French Revolution started with an absolute ruler and ended with an absolute ruler.

The French Revolution was a civil revolt that broke out in France against the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church, which lasted from 1789-1799. This resulted in the establishment of France as a republic, democratic government and caused the Roman Catholic Church’s necessity, as well as its power to be questioned. The French Revolution ended the thousand-year rule of the monarchy in France and began when King Louis XVI gathered representatives from the 3 social groups called the Clergy, the Nobilities and the Commoners to solve a great national debt and economic crisis France was experiencing.

The French Revolution was a quest for liberty, and centered on people who wanted their freedom. They wanted to be treated as equal participants in the community, not as slaves for the royals or nobles. The peasants who represents more than 90% of France’s population, were working for their own families and everyone else as they paid much more in taxes. Brotherhood was the way of everyone coming together

The French Revolution, I my opinion can be summed up in really two words a “human bloodbath”. It begins with King Louis the 16th not noticing the problems of his people. Backing the American Revolution caused France to go into debt that they could not get out of. Therefore, by not making the proper reforms to solve the issues of the King’s subjects. Accordingly, one of the issues that were facing King Louis and his subordinates were two years of bad crops in 1787-1788. Further causing higher food prices, one-third of the population is poor, starvation and death for many of his people. Additionally, the essential staple of the French’s daily food source is bread. The French had further issues to contend with as the years passed.

The French Revolution greatly affected France in a couple ways, for instance many became financially unstable meaning many were able to buy food or clothing since the prices have increased. Also, crops were

During the eighteenth century there was one central political cause for the French Revolution. King Louis XVI was a weak ruler who endured a lavish lifestyle. He disregarded the people’s needs, leaving much of the French population in discontent. Prior to the revolution the form of government was Absolute monarchy led by Louis XVI. The problem with absolute monarchy was that people were denied basic rights, and a say in government because the divine right theory was abused. The King ruled by the divine right of theory which

Revolutions are a common occurrence throughout world history. With the amount of revolutions in history, there are those that get lost and those that are the most remembered or well known. One of the well known revolutions is the French Revolution which occurred in the years 1789 to 1799. Before the French Revolution, France was ruled by an absolute monarchy, this meaning that one ruler had the supreme authority and that said authority was not restricted by any written laws, legislature, or customs, a definition given by wikipedia.com and the feudal system, which was a system that said a peasant or worker would receive a piece of land in return for serving under a king, a definition given by vocabulary.com. Those who opposed the, then