Revolutionary Fever in Syria

By studying the internal factors of the 2011 crisis in Syria, this article aims to describe causes led to the spontaneity of a part of Syria’s people in fighting against tyranny, and the attempt to change the political system. Investigation of Syria’s crisis indicates the tyranny which naturally and inevitably, has prepared the opportunity for the revolution to occur, and has resulted in the conversion of public hatred into a revolution. Based on Crane Brinton’s findings in the book “The Anatomy of Revolution”, it seems that Syria’s crisis is almost consistent and uniformed like the pattern of four revolution which Brinton studied. Symptoms such as: existence of a tyranny and its inability to suppress revolutionaries severely and completely, and also the prevalence of the notions like idealism and liberalism among revolutionaries, which had a fundamental role in providing necessary and sufficient objective and subjective aspects for the revolution, are also observed in Syria’s crisis. While investigating the internal factors of the crisis, this article tries to describe the symptoms of revolutionary fever which has resulted into this crisis.
Focus on these issues and through descriptive and analytical methods, the article has utilized library resources, news sites, newspapers and field sources through interviews with Syrian students in Iran and cognizant people.