revolutionary period
Time of overthrow
A revolutionary period is an era of dramatic political, social, or technological upheaval that fundamentally transforms existing structures.
In history, it often refers to specific national transformations: the revolutionary period in American history, France's revolutionary period.
The term extends beyond politics to any field undergoing rapid, foundational change: a revolutionary period in computing.
- crowdLarge public gathering
- bread riotsMass unrest over scarcity
- flagCloth symbol or signal
- propaganda artImages promoting ideology
- radicalismPursuit of sweeping change
rights of man · suffrage movement · peasant uprisings · manifestos · march · democracy · constitutionalism · protest poetry · abolitionist movement · pamphlet · barricade · blood in the streets · labor movement · Jacobin · socialism · political satire · commemorative monuments · communism
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- Swiss HistoryCongress of Vienna, cantons, Bern, Zurich, Basel
revolutionary periodrestoration
Returning something to condition
counterrevolution · Bourbon Restoration · Thermidorian Reaction · rollback · retrenchment
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