REVOLUTION
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
REVOLUTION: Are all radical upheavals in the social, economic and political order destined to fail? Laurie Taylor talks to Daniel Chirot, Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington, about his study into why so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times have ended in bloody tragedies. Does radical idealism inevitably have tragic consequences? Also, the Rojava Revolution, how a region in Northeastern Syria, has become the site of extraordinary transformation. The writer and activist, Rahila Gupta, describes an experiment in direct democracy, inter-ethnic co-operation and women's liberation which has taken place against a backdrop of civil war.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:47.6 | Hello for years I've dined out on the story of how I once met John Leonard and the old Crack pub in Liverpool. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, I told anyone who was still listening. |
| 0:57.5 | He was in there with Cynthia drinking his favourite black velvet, you know, Guinness and fizzy wine, and on his way to the bar, he actually said, |
| 1:05.0 | I lorry, as he passed my table. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, I relished that anecdote, because like so many other liver-pudlions, |
| 1:12.0 | it became almost a cultural necessity in the 60s to |
| 1:15.4 | identify with one or other of the Fab Four. |
| 1:19.3 | Some relish Paul sensitivity, others tuned into George's emerging mysticism or Ringo's no-nonsense |
| 1:26.2 | ordliness, but I was always a Leninist. |
| 1:30.4 | He was the revolutionary. |
| 1:32.2 | He wanted to change, well, the system. |
| 1:35.0 | If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government, etc, |
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