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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTIONBYGUSTAVE LE BON
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION. THE REVISION OF HISTORYPART I
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ELEMENTS OF REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS
BOOK I
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF REVOLUTIONS
CHAPTER I. SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS1. Classification of Revolutions2. Scientific Revolutions3. Political Revolutions4. The results of Political Revolutions
CHAPTER II. RELIGIOUS REVOLUTIONS1. The importance of the study of Religious Revolutions in respect of the comprehension of the great Political Revolutions2. The beginnings of the Reformation and its first disciples3. Rational value of the doctrines of the Reformation4. Propagation of the Reformation5. Conflict between different religious beliefs. The impossibility of tolerance6. The results of Religious Revolutions
CHAPTER III. THE ACTION OF GOVERNMENTS IN REVOLUTIONS1. The feeble resistance of Governments in time of Revolution2. How the resistance of Governments may overcome Revolution3. Revolutions effected by Governments. Examples: China, Turkey, &c4. Social elements which survive the changes of Government after Revolution
CHAPTER IV. THE PART PLAYED BY THE PEOPLE IN REVOLUTIONS1. The stability and malleability Of the national mind2. How the People regards Revolution3. The supposed part of the People during Revolution4. The popular entity and its constituent elements
BOOK II
THE FORMS OF MENTALITY PREVALENT DURING REVOLUTION
CHAPTER I. INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS OF CHARACTER IN TIME OF REVOLUTION1. Transformations of Personality2. Elements of character predominant in time of Revolution
CHAPTER II. THE MYSTIC MENTALITY AND THE JACOBIN MENTALITY1. Classification of mentalities predominant in time of Revolution2. The Mystic Mentality3. The Jacobin Mentality
CHAPTER III. THE REVOLUTIONARY AND CRIMINAL MENTALITIES1. The Revolutionary Mentality2. The Criminal Mentality
CHAPTER IV. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTIONARY CROWDS1. General characteristics of the crowd2. How the stability of the racial mind limits the oscillations of the mind of the crowd3. The role of the leader in Revolutionary Movements
CHAPTER V. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ASSEMBLIES1. Psychological characteristics of the great Revolutionary Assemblies2. The Psychology of the Revolutionary Clubs3. A suggested explanation of the progressive exaggeration of sentiments in assemblies
PART II
BOOK I
THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
CHAPTER 1. THE OPINIONS OF HISTORIANS CONCERNING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION1. The Historians of the Revolution2. The theory of Fatalism in respect of the Revolution3. The hesitation of recent Historians of the Revolution4. Impartiality in History
CHAPTER II. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANCIEN REGIME1. The Absolute Monarchy and the Basis of the Ancien Regime2. The inconveniences of the Ancien Regime3. Life under the Ancien Regime4. Evolution of Monarchical feeling during the Revolution
