... theories, thinkers refer to the sudden and radical changes, subject of political, social and economical structure of the society throughout history. Why revolutions occur can be argued from many different points of view. The classical Marxist approach looked for the causes of revolution in the development of the 'forces of production' which, by clashing with the 'conditions of production' engender industrial class-struggle to the point of explosion. Leninism shifted the emphasis from 'objective' to 'subjective' conditions for revolutions, stressing the role of the revolutionary organisation, the Party. Others believe that revolutions occur due to sociological determinism, found back on the writings of Hume and Mill, that every event has a cause and it is the most general and comprehensive of all the natural laws3. Contemporary sociological theories focus on the need of modernisation as the root cause of modern revolutions, when others as Eric Voegelin and Norman Cohn. Emphasise the recurrence ...

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