{"id":70974,"date":"2011-02-28T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T09:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=70974"},"modified":"2011-02-28T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T09:32:33","slug":"2-of-the-3-factors-necessary-for-a-revolution-exist-in-armenia-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/28\/2-of-the-3-factors-necessary-for-a-revolution-exist-in-armenia-azerbaijan.html","title":{"rendered":"2 of the 3 Factors Necessary for a Revolution Exist in Armenia, Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chain of anti-government protests in Arab countries could theoretically spread also to the Transcaucasus states, said head of the Caucasus section at the Kazan Center for Regional and Ethnic-Religious Studies Yana Amelina, speaking to Russian news agency Res.<\/p>\n<p>All the Transcaucasus states, she said, have great potential for internal conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, they are characterized by a widespread dissatisfaction among the population of government action or the government in general; and second, society is permeated by corruption; there&#8217;s a huge gap in income and opportunities for self-realization between the rich and the poor,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amelina, today there is every reason to believe that the first two factors necessary for a revolution are present in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, but, unlike the Arab countries of the East, the third indication \u2014 external factors \u2014 is absent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Lenin&#8217;s famous definition, a revolution is when the ruling class can no longer keep their supremacy intact and the lower classes no longer want to live like they did before. As well as a significant increase in the activity of the masses and their readiness for an independent revolution,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p>She advised not to forget about another important factor: that of external factors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guessing is not necessary for who will tear down the rotten wall of authoritarian-oligarchic regimes and when (perhaps Armenia is a little less authoritarian, but there is a sufficient oligarchic system); such processes quite often develop spontaneously and, most importantly, quickly,&#8221; she concluded.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chain of anti-government protests in Arab countries could theoretically spread also to the Transcaucasus states, said head of the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16421,13946,19207,22713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}