REVOLUTION IN THE 20TH CENTURY ‘The fundamental premise of a revolution is that the existing social structure has become incapable of solving the urgent problems of development of the nation’ Leon Trotsky, Russian Revolutionary Throughout the twentieth century every society in the world was characterised by massive inequality – there were huge differences in wealth between the elite and the mass of peasants and labourers, even in countries where there was a major rise in living …showed first 75 words of 6137 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6137 total…to a voice. How long these systems can go on excising without further revolutions is hard to say, but it can only be a matter of time before the people of countries where oppressions exist stand up against them. Whether these revolutions follow in the footsteps of those that went before them, or take an entirely different path can only be viewed within the circumstances of each revolution, and the stand it wishes to take.