Revolution

Revolution

A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. Aristotle described two types of political revolution:

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    We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
    Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

    The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
    José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)