Bourgeois revolution

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<blockquote>''This article is about bourgeois revolutions against feudalism or slavery. For bourgeois-led revolutions against socialism, see [[counterrevolution]].''</blockquote>[[File:French revolution painting.png|thumb|Painting of the [[French Revolution]]]]
'''Bourgeois revolution''' is a social [[revolution]] that aims to destroy a [[Feudalism|feudal system]] and establish the rule of the [[bourgeoisie]] to create a [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie|bourgeois state]].<ref name=":0">Bourgeois Revolution. (n.d.) ''The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition''. (1970-1979). Retrieved June 18 2022 from https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Bourgeois+Revolution</ref> Some examples of bourgeois revolutions include the [[Statesian Revolution]], the [[French Revolution]], and the [[Russian revolution of 1905|Russian Revolution of 1905]].

== Examples ==

* [[Kingdom of the Netherlands#Dutch Revolution|Dutch Revolt]] (1568–1609)
* [[English Civil War]] (1642–1652)<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Neil Davidson|newspaper=International Socialist Review|title=Bourgeois Revolution and the US Civil War|url=https://isreview.org/issue/83/bourgeois-revolution-and-us-civil-war/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227052127/https://isreview.org/issue/83/bourgeois-revolution-and-us-civil-war/index.html|archive-date=2021-12-27|retrieved=2025-09-08}}</ref>
* [[Kingdom of England (927–1707)#Glorious Revolution|Glorious Revolution]] (1688)
* [[Statesian Revolution]] (1775–1783)<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Web citation|author=James M. Vaughn|newspaper=The Platypus Affiliated Society|title=1776 in world history: The American Revolution as bourgeois revolution|date=2013-12-15|url=https://platypus1917.org/2013/12/15/1776-in-world-history/|archive-url=https://megalodon.jp/2025-0909-0415-50/https://platypus1917.org:443/2013/12/15/1776-in-world-history/|archive-date=2025-09-08|retrieved=2025-09-08|quote=The American and French revolutions were part of an ongoing process of bourgeois revolution inaugurated by the Dutch Revolt (c. 1568-1648) and deepened with the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689.}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
* [[French Revolution]] (1789–1815)<ref>{{Citation|author=Saumyendranath Tagore|year=1938|title=Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and India|title-url=https://www.rcpi-communist.in/p/bourgeois-democratic-revolution-and.html|quote=The French Revolution of 1789, which is the classical example of a bourgeois-democratic revolution, fully bears out the Leninist conception of the “unity of will” of the various classes in the bourgeois-democratic revolution and the “national” character of the bourgeois revolution.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/tagore/1938/bourg-demo.htm}}</ref>
* [[Haitian Revolution]] (1791–1804)
* [[Batavian Revolution]] (1795)
* [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]] (1798)<ref>{{Web citation|author=Neil Faulkner|newspaper=Counterfire|title=A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution – Themidor, Directory and Napoleon|date=2011-10-24|url=https://www.counterfire.org/article/a-marxist-history-of-the-world-part-49-the-french-revolution-themidor-directory-and-napoleon/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221122217/https://www.counterfire.org/article/a-marxist-history-of-the-world-part-49-the-french-revolution-themidor-directory-and-napoleon/|archive-date=2023-12-21|retrieved=2025-09-08}}</ref>
* [[Bolivian War of Independence]] (1809–1825)
* [[Peruvian War of Independence]] (1809–1826)
* [[Mexican War of Independence]] (1810–1821)
* [[Argentine War of Independence]] (1810–1818)
* [[Venezuelan War of Independence]] (1810–1823)
* [[Chilean War of Independence]] (1810–1826)
* [[Liberal Revolution of 1820|Portuguese Liberal Revolution]] (1820)
* [[Three Liberal Years|Spanish Liberal Revolution]] (1820–1823)
* [[Ecuadorian War of Independence]] (1820–1822)
* [[Greek War of Independence|Greek Revolution]] (1821–1829)
* [[Decembrist Revolt]] (1826)
* [[Belgian Revolution]] (1830–1831)
* [[July Revolution]] (1830)
* [[November Uprising]] (1830–1831, failed)
* [[French Revolution of 1848|February Revolution]] (1848)
* [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848|Hungarian Revolution]] (1848, failed)
* [[Poznań Uprising]] (1848, failed)
* [[Reform War]] (1858–1861)
* Union victory in the [[Statesian Civil War]] (1861–1865)
* [[April Uprising]] (1866)
* [[Fenian Rising]] (1867)
* [[Meiji Restoration]] (1868)
* [[Glorious Revolution (Spain)|Spanish Glorious Revolution]] (1868–1874)
* [[Ten Years' War]] (1868–1878, failed)
* [[Serbian Wars of Independence|Serbian Revolution]] (1876–1878)
* [[Romanian War of Independence|Romanian Revolution]] (1877–1878)
* [[Republican Revolution]] (1889)
* [[Russian revolution of 1905|Russian Revolution]] (1905, failed)
* [[Mexican Revolution]] (1910–1920)
* [[Xinhai Revolution]] (1911)<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Academy of Chinese Studies|title=Sun Yat-sen and Xinhai Revolution|url=https://chiculture.org.hk/en/china-five-thousand-years/1914|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814124426/https://chiculture.org.hk/en/china-five-thousand-years/1914|archive-date=2024-08-14|retrieved=2025-09-08|quote=The Xinhai Revolution refers to the bourgeois-democratic revolution that took place in 1911 (the third year of the Xuantong reign of the Qing dynasty) which ended the Chinese autocratic monarchy of over two thousand years.}}</ref>
* [[February Revolution]] (1917)<ref>{{Citation|year=1936|title=THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE U.S.S.R.|chapter=II. THE FEBRUARY BOURGEOIS-DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/civilwar_ussr|section=1. Revolt in the Capital|quote=But it did not accomplish the fundamental purpose of the Bourgeois-democratic revolution, namely, the overthrow of the autocracy.|pdf=https://redstarpublishers.org/HistCivWarV1.pdf|mia=https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/events/civilwar/history-civil-war/vol1/ch02-1.htm|volume=1}}</ref>

== References ==
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