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Social Revolution Historical

...... The monarchy and the aristocracy were in a way working together to control the peasantry to keep producing food. The states military was available to put down peasant uprisings, and the aristocracy staffed and funded the state and became very wealthy through the exploitation of state resources and political offices. Despite the fact that the aristocracy and monarchy worked together, they, too, were in conflict. The monarchs wanted to centralize power and agricultural production and the landowners only let the state do so much with their personal estates. Thus, the aristocrats constantly kept the monarchy in check as a weak institution that was ripe for being overthrown
Meanwhile, each country was also trying to deal with external threats that paved the way for revolution. Skocpol stresses that it was the states lack of ability to keep foreign invaders at bay that resulted in each of the three social revolutions. The aristocracy overthrew the state because it relied too much on their resources to support the war......