... by The Regents of the University of California 2025 Frantz Fanon Algeria decolonization colonialism revolution mental health “The tone is new. Who dares to speak thus? It is an African, a man from the Third World, an ex-‘native.’” So said Jean-Paul Sartre in his preface to Frantz Fanon’s...

... rather than just co-opting their style into a new official narrative. © 2025 by The Regents of the University of California 2025 Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina revolution protests democracy authoritarianism “Rather than quelling dissent, the state’s repressive response inadvertently...

...Paul Vrieze The Myanmar military’s 2021 coup prompted the emergence of the Spring Revolution protest movement, which spurred widespread inter-ethnic solidarity and gave rise to armed resistance groups called People’s Defense Forces (PDFs). Four years on, these dynamics have greatly changed...

...Kjetil Tronvoll Zanzibar, a self-governing state of Tanzania, may look like a tranquil tropical archipelago. But in the 60 years since a revolution overthrew a sultanate with origins in Oman, its politics have been turbulent. Revolutionary doctrines of socialism and one-party rule led to repression...

...Daniele Cantini Universities played a central role in Egypt’s 2011 revolution and were heavily affected by the subsequent return to military rule. Egyptian universities have a long history as settings where young activists engage in political action. Today they are institutions with a changing role...

... to the present. Cuba: An American History , by Ada Ferrer Scribner , 2021 . © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 Cuba history United States books revolution imperialism In the fall of 1962, villagers in a small farming community 65 miles east of Havana were...

... Ruhollah Khomeini Iranian revolution Islamism communists 343 Today it is hard to imagine the connection between the world that revolutionary impulse envisioned and the actuality it generated in the Islamic Republic. Reconsidering the Iranian Revolution, Forty Years Later BEHROOZ GHAMARI-TABRIZI...

...Armine Ishkanian The revolution … ended the hopelessness, apathy, and indifference that had come to characterize the post-Soviet period. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Armine Ishkanian Armenia Nikol Pashinyan Serzh...

...Serhiy Kudelia The increasing vibrancy of civil society had become a serious political threat to the authorities. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Serhiy Kudelia Ukraine Euromaidan Revolution Russia Crimea eastern Ukraine...

...Katrin Hansing Afro-Cubans, who were once considered the backbone of the revolution, for the most part are being left out of the island's new opportunities … © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Katrin Hansing Cuba racism race...

... of the University of California Rosamond Naylor food security famine hunger agriculture Green Revolution foreign aid population China India climate change malnutrition obesity Ending world hunger is a universal goal, yet progress and social awareness of the issue waxes and wanes...

...Shahram Khosravi The sociopolitical transition can be observed best in the shift of the symbolic position of working-class men: from veneration in the first decade after the revolution to condemnation three decades later. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents...

...Marwan M. Kraidy Did the same pro-market economic policies that gave rise to the Arab Spring also doom the would-be revolutionaries by sapping their capacity for envisioning radical alternatives? Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring , by Asef Bayat...

... Russian Revolution foreign policy Cold War Third World China United States Europe NATO anticolonialism decolonization national liberation nonaligned movement communism 258 Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its...

... Lenin Bolsheviks Russian Revolution empire communism Marxism capitalism Joseph Stalin Soviet Union imperialism nationalism Russia empire self-determination In the first quarter-century since the disintegra-tion of the Soviet Union and the collapse of self-described communism...

...Greta Uehling Violence is woven into the stream of consciousness as terrible and normal at the same time. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Greta Uehling Ukraine Donbas civil war Donetsk Luhansk Kiev revolution Maidan...

... Rodrigo Duterte Benigno Aquino III Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Corazon Aquino Ferdinand Marcos Joseph Estrada People Power revolution democracy authoritarianism corruption crime vigilantes 220 Duterte appeals to those in Philippine society yearning for the reimposition of discipline...

...Patricia M. Thornton The latest in a string of recent books on the Cultural Revolution focuses on the experience at the grassroots, where violent upheaval unexpectedly ended in the return of capitalism. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 , by Frank Dikötter Bloomsbury...

... River Runs Again Green Revolution climate change A lion, its body ornately patterned, strides across a striped field of saffron, white, and green the colors of the Indian flag. A closer look at the illustration shows the design in the lion s mechanical frame, intricate as henna paintings...

... Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI Dilma Rousseff Brazil Michelle Bachelet Chile Hugo Chávez Venezuela Evo Morales Bolivia Néstor Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Argentina Rafael Correa Ecuador Fidel Castro Cuba Committees Defense Revolution Colombia A dynamic...