PSI 3316 - Comparative Revolutions I

Credits: 4.00
This course is the first of a two-semester sequence on Comparative Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements. It is designed to critically analyze and compare revolutions and revolutionary movements in terms of their origins, rationale, methodologies, and degrees of success in fulfilling their avowed goals. All revolutions are unique but there are important analytical and methodological tools by which to compare and contrast them. Comparative Revolutions I will explore the revolutions in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. After looking at the revolutions in France, Russia, Mexico, and China; we will consider the revolution in Cuba as an archetype for other third world revolutions, not only those in Latin America, such as in Nicaragua, but all over the third world. The course will include the revolutionary movements of the Zapatistas in Mexico, the mass demonstrations and labor actions in Argentina after the economic collapse of 1999-2002, the Shining Path in Peru, and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela; revolutionary movements in South Korea in the March First Uprising, the Korean student movements, and the Kwangju Democratization Movement “5/18;” and the Democracy Movement in China.

McDaniel Plan:
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Social Cultural and Historical Understanding