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  • Summary: How to Start a Revolution reveals the remarkable story of modern revolution, the power of people to change their world and the man behind it all. Quiet, unassuming, soft-spoken and barely known to the wider world, 83 year old Professor Gene Sharp has written the standard textbook for revolutionary leaders around the globe. Used by activists from Serbia to Egypt, from Ukraine to Syria, and now influencing Occupy Wall Street, one of Gene's most important books 'From Dictatorship to Democracy' is nothing less than a handbook of 198 strategic 'weapons' that are used to topple dictators. Banned in many countries, his work has influenced a generation of revolutionary leaders who yearn for democratic freedom in Asia, throughout Eastern Europe, in the Middle East and now here in America. (Seventh Art Releasing)… Expand

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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Feb 23, 2012
    50
    There is much more to be explored than this noble documentary, made on a tiny budget, has the resources to examine.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Mark Holcomb
    Feb 21, 2012
    50
    How to Start a Revolution plays like a Nobel Prize–campaign film and never once demonstrates an understanding of the distinction between encomium and inquiry.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Joseph Jon Lanthier
    Feb 22, 2012
    25
    Much of this content, which involves complex social movements in Burma, Iran, and elsewhere, is necessarily abridged, but it's often done so to the point of incoherence, making Gene Sharp's connection to what we're seeing seem contrived.

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