The Most Famous Revolutions And Coups D'etat
(E. Durschmied)
Events that have changed the world. The events, but first of all the people, who dreamed of a new order and arrangement of the world. Before commencing or introducing anything new these people had to pull down the former order, which often brought about many casualties and an ocean of blood. The characters from this book come from various social backgrounds and each of them contributes in different ways to the changes that induce improvements in some countries, while maintaining chaos and stagnation in others. In the book we can find incredibly interesting narration of the events, which led to the revolution in France in the year 1792 and detronised Louis XVI and Marie Antoine, and also caused their 8-year-old son, Louis XVII-to-be, to undergo tortures exceeding an adult person's endurance. The book deals as well with the events of the year 1809, when the Tyrol Insurrection broke off. It was directed against Napoleon Bonaparte, considered to be an usurper. Everyone, who knows the history of the mexican revolution from the year 1910, will also find here many interesting details from the lives of Emiliano Zapata or Pancho Villa, and will get to know, whether the fight, going on and on for ten years, and rich in atrocities, brought any changes to the better to Mexico. The book additionally tells us the story of the fall of the royal house of Hohenzollern; depicts the doctor -revolutioner Che and speculations concerning his death; it reads about a group of people, led by Lenin, who changed the world, but the aftermath of the changes implemented haunted a few generations of people. The book also offers some interesting information on the revolution in Iran and the way the emperor Pahlawi family lost the power that went to ajatollah Homeini instead. The century that hosted all these events was rich in many other revolutions, coups d'etat, topplings, but the author, as I see it, picked the most interesting ones, that in many various ways contributed to changing the world. Is the change for the better? This question certainly cannot be answered unambiguously, although it can be argued, how the world would look like if the events mentioned would have never happened.
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