IF WE BURN: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
by Vincent Bevins (Hachette, $39.99)
“Out here in the real world, if a revolution fails, all your friends go to jail or end up dead.
From 2010 to 2020, it’s estimated that more people took part in mass global uprisings than any similar period in history. At the centre of these protests was the so-called Arab Spring, a series of protests across the Arab world that brought great hopes of change, yet the movement ultimately failed. Why? History offers a partial explanation.
With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 came a crisis of history – that is, its interpretation. In US social scientist Francis
