If you didn’t know who Crane Brinton was he basically had a theory in which he took a bunch of revolutions and tried to find a comparison between them. These stages are kind of like when you get the flu or a cold.

Stage one of the revolutions were compared to the first symptoms of a cold like when you wake up and have a sore thought and a dripping nose because when the revolution began to start things where just starting to bubble underneath the surface and people where starting to realize what was wrong and what they wanted to change.

Stage two is just when you feel like your going to throw up or start violently coughing this is a comparison because in the revolution people weren’t violently protesting yet but trying to figure out something in a moderately civil way.

Next stage three, this is where you feel so sick you have to skip a day of school or stay home from work, in the revolution this part is where people start chopping heads off and violently protesting.

Finally stage 4, stage 4 is where everything starts to calm back down, at this point everything is back to normal except a few laws or other things that are altered.

Crane Brinton was born in 1898 and died the September of 1968.Crane Brinton was also the author of a few books including the anatomy of revolution. We are studying in class his theory and while we where reading a question came to mind, what sparked Crane Brintons inspiration and interest to research this topic?

I decided to go further with that question and research what age he was interested in learning about those revolutions and why he decided to go further and make it a career. After doing a bit of research I found that crane was a very focused student who received a scholarship to Oxford, studied philosophy, then later on worked at Harvard and taught ancient and modern history.

During all this Crane started researching 4 different revolutions and came up with his “Anatomy of revolution” so to answer the question, I think he was a very focused and studious child which led him to an amazing school which then inspires him to think deeper into what a revolution really was, why they happened and what was the outcome.