French Revolution - deposes national government, several waves of terror, co-opted by messianic figure who suppresses unrest with anti-personnel artillery into crusading empire, remakes much of advanced world, ultimately defeated, the heirs of the pre-uprising elites restore the old regime but it’s never the same
June Rebellion of 1832 (the Les Mis one) - heartwarming unity, suppressed by military force
1848 Revolutions - suppressed by military force one by one, some advances in bourgeois nationalism, extensive systems of secret police and political crime established to suppress future repeats
Paris Commune - formed under foreign siege, not applicable
Russian Revolution of 1905 - after initial attempts at suppression catalyze more unrest, Tsar makes concessions to liberals, managing to split them from radicals. Remnants suppressed with military force but return in 1917.
Russian Revolution of 1917 - after defeating war-weakened central government and resisting expeditionary forces from foreign states, eventually forms Leninist government
Spartacist Uprising - radicals transition to armed insurrection with partial buy-in from more moderate leftists. Undermanned government suppresses them by loosing private rightist veterans’ militias
post-war Italy - country held together in very loose federalism with drastic variation in local political climate from hard-right to hard-left, socialists, communists, anarchists, and fascists all maintain organizations, power bases, autonomist zones, and parties. National electoral system is rigged to maintain function as a client state of foreign power anyway. System lubricated by occasional political and state terrorism, extensive corruption, and organized crime.
July Rebellion of 1830 - attempts by king to suppress bourgeois coalition of urban workers and non-noble propertyholders, through force and law, yield further unrest, which escalates to armed mob violence. Regime forces yield, king is deposed, bourgeois government and rights established. With 1832 and 1848, inspires total redesign of city in mid-1800s to render less capturable by mobs.
May 68 (Paris, 1968) - initial effort at suppression fails, country experiences two-months largely peaceful suspension of regular order, government makes concessions, regular order resumes, event largely understood in cultural terms
Long Hot Summer 1967/MLK Assassination Riots 1968 - unrest aligns along racial lines. Suppressed by military force. Concessions granted in Civil Rights Act of 1968 and others. Whites increasingly leave inner city to blacks, becomes chronic “urban crisis”. Nixon elected, offers mix of concessions and repression while snuffing out resource streams into inner cities. Nixon deposed in parliamentary maneuvering. Intermittent political violence while crime rises. By 1980s black organized crime has established substantial hegemony. Reagan undercuts enforcement mechanisms of civil rights law while continuing blockade on urban funding. In 1992 Clinton elected, government suppresses organized crime with police force, resumes urban funding streams through allied neoliberal “New Democrat” local machines. Cities recover, whites return.
[anon submitted] 1911 (Xinhai) Revolution: Crumbling government falls quickly, mad scramble for power leads to several decades of ineffective military despotism and subversion by “sympathetic” foreign powers, 20+ years of constant warfare, invasion by a nearby state while internal strife leaves the nation unable to defend itself, Communist dictatorship.
1973 Athens Polytechnic - suppressed by military force. As the regime moves to reorient itself in response, coup ultimately leads to war with Turkey and the fall of the junta. The successor regime recognizes universities as autonomous of state power. In the form of “Exarcheia”, Athens Polytechnic shelters much of Greece’s anarchist capacity.
1989 Tiananmen Square - suppressed by military force. Extensive systems of secret police and political crime reinforced to suppress future repeats, including damnatio memoriae.