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Mexican Revolution--History of Mexico
http://mrburnett.mine.nu/GCII/U1/outside/aztec/rev.html
This site, part of the Mexico: Student Teacher Resource Center created by Thomas Frederiksen, provide gives a highly detailed timeline of the events of the revolution; brief biographies of dozens of prominent figures-including the Mexican Presidents of the revolution; excerpts from historical texts on the causes of the revolution and other related topics (as well as links to other Websites on the Revolution), and a bibliography of scholarly texts.

Mexican Revolution Images
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~border/resource_pages/revolution.html
This site, part of the Southern Border course at the University of California at Berkeley, contains historical images from the Mexican Revolution. There are postcards, group photos of revolutionaries, and images of Porfirio Biaz, Francisco "Pancho" Villa, and Emiliano Zapata.

The South Texas Border summary Page
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/tex/texintro.html
This site is part of the Library of Congress American Memory collection.  "The South Texas Border, 1900-1920 collection of photographs by Robert Runyon captures the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s."  The site includes negatives, slides, prints and postcards of the Mexican Revolution.

The Mexican Revolution 1910
http://www.mexconnect.com/MEX/austin/revolution.html
This is a copy of an article on the Mexican Revolution that was written for the Consul General of Mexico site in Austin, Texas.

Puritan Revolution  
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InfoPlease.com on English Civil War
http://looksmart.infoplease.com/ce5/CE016960.html

Encyclopedia.com -- English Civil War
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/englshcw_thefirstcivilwar.asp

The Age of Democratic Revolution (1603-1815)
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/jhubbell/Outlines/middle.htm
This site gives an outline of the times leading up to the Puritan Revolution and what followed.

Oliver Cromwell: British Monarchs
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon48.html
This site contains information on Oliver Cromwell.

Documents on the English Civil War
http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/history/War/EMCiv.htm
This site contains nine documents written during the English Civil War including Cromwell a Soldier's Death at Marston Moor, 1644.

The English Civil War Pages
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~crossby/ECW/
This page is part of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth site build to focus on the educational use of the Internet. The site contains information on the history, the people, the battles, the technology, and the tactics involved in the English Civil War.

Glorious Revolution   [Return to the top]

The Glorious Revolution of 1688
http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/~glorious/index.html
This is a great site on the Glorious Revolution, put together by two professors from the University of Georgia's Law School.  The site includes an introduction, a timeline, an encyclopedia of important people and events, quotations, links to more information and a bibliography (not completed).

Virtual Norfolk: The Revolution of 1688-89
http://virtualnorfolk.uea.ac.uk/long18thcent/revolution/
Teaching with historical texts, this site covers the assassination plot of 1696, the reigns of Anne and George I, revolution ballads, seditious words, and more.

French Revolution           [Return to the top]

Learning Resources: The French Revolution, 1787-1799
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/french-rev/
Provided by the Department of History at Warwick University (UK), this site contains four parts on the French Revolution. An introduction to "The People and the French Revolution", a bibliography of the revolution, a glossary and a detailed timeline.

NM's Creative Impulse
http://history.evansville.net/
This site, part of Evansville CSD History site, has a well done section on the French Revolution that includes links to people, documents, events and more resources.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: French Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook13.html
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is contains links to texts that are available on the Internet on the French Revolution.

The French Revolution
http://members.aol.com/agentmess/frenchrev/index.html
This is the personal web page of Peder Larson, who has build this site so that he can collect as much information as he can on the French Revolution.  There are some very good links off of this page.

Iranian Revolution                     [Return to the top]

The Iranian Revolution
http://www.marxist.com/MiddleEast/iran79.html
This 1979 article by Ted Grant "explains how the hated regime of the Shah was overthrown by a workers' revolution, and how, unfortunately, the revolution was hijacked by the fundamentalist mullahs."  The article is a link from the Middle East section of the In Defense of Marxism site whose purpose is to defend Marxist ideas.

1979 Person of the Year: Ayatullah Khomeini
http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/archive/1979.html
This webpage is part of Time Magazines site on "Person of the Year."  The article covers Ayatullah Khomeini and his part in the Iranian Revolution.

Russian Revolution         [Return to the top]

SparkNotes: The Russian Revolution (1917-1921)
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/russianrev/

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Russian Revolution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook39.html
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is contains links to texts that are available on the Internet on the Russian Revolution.

Leon Trotsky: 1930--The History of the Russian Revolution
http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1930-hrr/
This is the 1932 translation by Max Eastman of Leon Trotsky's The History of the Russian Revolution.

History and Culture of Russia/ The Path to Revolution
http://www.interknowledge.com/russia/rushis06.htm
This article, from the official site of the Russian National Tourist Office, provides information on how Russian Revolution came about.

The Bolsheviks and Workers Control
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/2163/bolintro.html
"The Bolsheviks and Workers Control is a remarkable pamphlet by Maurice Brinton exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist 'history' of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917 - 21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did."  This is the complete text of the pamphlet.

The Russian Revolution
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/world/lectures/rev1917.html
This site by Professor Gerhard Rempel of Western New England College outlines the highlights of the Russian Revolution from Georg von Rauch's A History of Soviet Russia.

Russian Revolution
http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/schools/s090/history/russian_revolution.htm
This site from a k-12 school in Fresno Californian contains a summary the revolution, images, and several good links to more information.

Russian Revolution Resources  
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/russ.html
Russian Revolution Internet resources from the Chico High School Library.

The Russian Revolution and Stalinism
http://www.newyouth.com/archives/theory/russian_revolution.asp
This site contains primary information on the Russian Revolution from the Youth for International Socialism site.  Included in the site are primary essays and speeches by Leon Trotsky including The Lesson of October and In Defense of the Russian Revolution.

Cuban Revolution     [Return to the top]

The Cuban Experience [Java, RealPlayer]
http://library.thinkquest.org/18355/the_cuban_revolution_-_1959.html
This site, a semifinalist in the 1998 ThinkQuest Internet competition provides a comprehensive overview of this Cuban including 1959 Revolution.

Teksten Che Guevara
http://www.el-comandante.com/text.htm
This site on Che Guevara, the revolutionist who worked Fidel Castro, contains primary sources on the Cuban Revolution including Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution' from the October 8, 1960, issue of Verde Olivo, the magazine of Cuba's armed forces.

Jill Hickson, The day that launched the Cuban Revolution
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/084.html
The World History Archives contains documents on world history from a working class perspective.  "The Day that Launched the Cuban Revolution" is from the July 24, 1996 Green Left Weekly for the 43rd anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks by a small group of armed young Cuban revolutionaries.  The attack failed but it is considered the day that launched the Cuban Revolution.

History of the Cuban Revolution
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcgfrfi/ratb/cuba/cuba_rev.htm
This page is part of the Cuban History section of the Revolutionary Communist Group site.  Trevor Rayne's History of the Cuban Revolution can be read here.

History of Cuba--The Cuban Revolution
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcgfrfi/ratb/cuba/history4.htm
This page is part of the Cuban History section of the Revolutionary Communist Group site.  Richard Roques's History of Cuba Section4: The Cuban Revolution can be read here

Chinese Revolution                   [Return to the top]

Theses On the Chinese Revolution and Cultural Revolution
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/disband/solidarity/china_revolution.html
This article from Solidarity Pamphlet #46 (1974) is part of a collection of primary documents contained in the Revolt Collection, part of the International Anarchism Web page (organized around The Pamphlet, written by a group of anarchist exiles from the Russian Revolution in 1917).

Deng Xiaoping and the fate of the Chinese Revolution
http://wsws.org/history/1997/mar1997/dengx.shtml
This is an editorial (12 March 1997) from the World Socialist Web Page on the Chinese Revolution.

Questions of the Chinese Revolution
http://gate.cruzio.com/~marx2mao/Stalin/QCR27.html
This is the complete text of Questions of the Chinese Revolution by J.V. Stalin, written in Pravada, No. 90 on April 21, 1927. The four questions discussed here are: Prospects of the Chinese Revolution, The First Stage of the Chinese Revolution, The Second Stage of the Chinese Revolution, and Errors of the Opposition.

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
http://www.zhongguo.org/Isaacs/default.htm
This web page contains the links to six chapters of Harold Isaacs's The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution.  The chapters include The Roots, China's Crisis: The Class Pattern, World Crisis: The Russian Impact and The New Awakening.

Greet New High Tide of Chinese Revolution
http://gate.cruzio.com/~marx2mao/Mao/HTCR47.html
This site contains selected works of Mao Tse-tung on the Chinese Revolution.

General Resources                [Return to the top]

Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com/
Do a general search on your revolution.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is a history primary sourcebook.  The site contains hundreds of texts that are available on the Internet on history.

On-Line Resources
http://www.stedwards.edu/newc/sanchez/onliner.html
This page contains links to information on some of the most significant revolutions in modern times-- the French revolution of 1789, the Russian revolutions of 1917 and 1991, the Chinese Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, the Eastern European and the South African revolutions of the later half of this century.  This links have been selected by a professor of history at New College, St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.

Road to Revolution III
http://www.gppsd.ab.ca/gpcomp/academ/soc/33/revolutions.html

Historical Revolutions---recipe for Revolution
http://www.gppsd.ab.ca/gpcomp/academ/soc/20/revolution.html
These two sites are from The Grade Prairie Composite High School Social Studies Web Page in Grande  Prairie, Alberta Canada.  Road to Revolution covers the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Revolution.  The second site has a recipe for revolution---take a look and see if you can see any of these ingredients in the revolution you are examining.

ClassZone:
http://www.classzone.com/start/patterns/modern/index.html
This site is part of McDougal Littell, Houghton Mifflin's site.  Enter Modern World History ClassZone resources. Check out chapter 14 Revolution and Nationalism (Russian and China) and the rest of the sections for great Internet links.

Killeen Harker Heights Connections to the World
http://killeenroos.com/
This site, part of the Killeen Harker Heights School in Killeen, Texas has links to the Russian and French Revolution.  Click on Web Sites for Social Studies, scroll down and click on World History Links.

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