In humanities we have started a new course called metaphor machines, this course is based on revolutions. In case you didn’t know a revolution is an *overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed. It’s basically just and uprising. Anyway we have started studying this man named crane Brenton and his theory on revolutions, he named his theory “The anatomy of a revolution” its looks at revolutions as like fevers, how they spread, how they show slight symptoms at first. His theory describes revolutions as the infection and the government and society as the host, and when the fever (or revolution) ends the host will emerge either stronger or weaker than before. On this blog post I am going behind the scenes of this theory and looking deeper into the origins and the inspiration that gave Crane Brinton the idea of studying this topic, The Fever of Revolutions.

Crane Brinton was born in Connecticut on 1898. He grew up in Springfield Massachusetts where he went to public school before attending Harvard University in 1915, He did very well in university which allowed him to win a Rhodes scholarship and to attend Oxford University.

But this isn’t the point of the story. This story is the history behind his theory: The Anatomy of Revolution. The anatomy of revolution was a book written by crane in 1938 and it showed four revolutions the English, American, French, and Russian revolutions and how they all followed a sort of life cycle. They all had the same thing’s in common, they all followed the same stages and steps.

Crane Brinton’s love for history and his extensive studies of French and Russian political history inspired him to write this book, he noticed the patterns between these revolutions and studied them and made comparisons between them and other real life situations until he ended up with his book, The Anatomy of Revolution.