French Revolution!!!!?

Question

How did the French Revolution help us understand the causes of modern world conflict?

Answer 1

The French Revolution answered all the questions that we have about modern life. Does the monarchy have a role? Ans - No. Does the government (such as it is) have right to determine our future without consent? Ans - No. So what do we do about it? Ans - assert our right to have a say. Challenge the perceived authority, assert the right to have a say. Forget the excesses and focus on the Rights of Men and Women and the need for a society to govern by consensus. Akthough it doesn't appear to be the case always, this is what the French Rev. did for us.

Answer 2

Leo Gershoy, The French Revolution, 1789-1799.

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As in all conflicts, there is a supposed cause of which no one really understands. The overall affects are horrendous and yet from past histories, those that be have not noted the failures and continually strive to weaken mankind.

Answer 3

The French Revolution was far from the populist uprising that the uninformed generic amateur historians would have us believe. Few serious historians today suggest that it was the inevitable confluence of rising social tensions. As such, the French Revolution taught us that to look beyond easy, macro-historical answers. It taught us that people fight for all sorts of reasons, and all sorts of causes, but they each fight for themselves most of all. In the Vendee, they objected to being forced to fight for France, so they started a civil war, and as a result far more of them died, but they died close to their homes and their families fighting for something they believed was right. The people with the grandiose social vision (if they existed at all) were at the upper echelons of society, but were increasingly marginalised throughout the conflict, as the need to sustain an excrutiatingly expensive war forced progressive radicalism to trump its radical predecessors time and again. It taught us that the best intentioned can be the worst in practice- the Constitution written by the Jacobins and then suspended symbolically above the Convention floor was one of the most enlightened documents ever written, and could have provided the base for long term government based on social equality. But they didn't mean it. It was never introduced and they charged unstoppably towards the very absolutism it had sort to control. It taught us that countries that are not ready for democracy and have it forced on them meander in a power vacuum until someone with sufficient charisma and military might bends the power and good of the nation to his own will, and that many will not mind that provided he restores what we all basically crave, the security that we can seek to achieve on our own merits in a world based, at least in part, on rational order.

Answer 4

In the "seeds" of the Revolution we find all the major "causes" of modern world conflict. These include class conflict, inequality of the law, political, social and religious persecution, etc.

Answer 5

the French Revolution, containing the abolition of the monarchy in 1793 (Louis XVII was executed in January) and the Reign of Terror c1794, created a vacuum of power which set the scene for the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) - the baton of world power was handed from France to Britain

Answer 6

Right
About as much as Andy Pandy helps us understand the breeding habits of the greater crested bog slug

Answer 7

I think that it shows that the longer a Revolution is suppressed, the more bloody it becomes.

Answer 8

Making clear that people have teh right to better living conditions and freedom, mainly. Al;so, that the Rules have to aply justice to everyone, and not to abuse of power

Answer 9

Your local public library may have some books on your question. Check them out and READ THEM!

Answer 10

Obviously it did not because people (Bush) are still making the same mistakes now