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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTION BY GUSTAVE LE BON

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. THE REVISION OF HISTORY
PART I
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ELEMENTS OF REVOLUTIONARY
MOVEMENTS
BOOK I
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF REVOLUTIONS
CHAPTER I.
SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS 1. Classification of
Revolutions 2. Scientific Revolutions 3. Political Revolutions 4. The

results of Political Revolutions
CHAPTER II.
RELIGIOUS REVOLUTIONS 1. The importance of the study of
Religious Revolutions in respect of the comprehension of the great
Political Revolutions 2. The beginnings of the Reformation and its first
disciples 3. Rational value of the doctrines of the Reformation 4.
Propagation of the Reformation 5. Conflict between different religious
beliefs. The impossibility of tolerance 6. The results of Religious
Revolutions
CHAPTER III.
THE ACTION OF GOVERNMENTS IN REVOLUTIONS 1. The
feeble resistance of Governments in time of Revolution 2. How the
resistance of Governments may overcome Revolution 3. Revolutions
effected by Governments. Examples: China, Turkey, &c 4. Social
elements which survive the changes of Government after Revolution
CHAPTER IV.
THE PART PLAYED BY THE PEOPLE IN REVOLUTIONS 1. The
stability and malleability Of the national mind 2. How the People
regards Revolution 3. The supposed part of the People during
Revolution 4. The popular entity and its constituent elements
BOOK II
THE FORMS OF MENTALITY PREVALENT DURING
REVOLUTION
CHAPTER I.
INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS OF CHARACTER IN TIME OF
REVOLUTION 1. Transformations of Personality 2. Elements of
character predominant in time of Revolution

CHAPTER II.
THE MYSTIC MENTALITY AND THE JACOBIN MENTALITY 1.
Classification of mentalities predominant in time of Revolution 2. The
Mystic Mentality 3. The Jacobin Mentality
CHAPTER III.
THE REVOLUTIONARY AND CRIMINAL MENTALITIES 1. The
Revolutionary Mentality 2. The Criminal Mentality
CHAPTER IV.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REVOLUTIONARY CROWDS 1. General
characteristics of the crowd 2. How the stability of the racial mind
limits the oscillations of the mind of the crowd 3. The role of the leader
in Revolutionary Movements
CHAPTER V.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ASSEMBLIES 1.
Psychological characteristics of the great Revolutionary Assemblies 2.
The Psychology of the Revolutionary Clubs 3. A suggested explanation
of the progressive exaggeration of sentiments in assemblies

PART II
BOOK I
THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
CHAPTER 1.
THE OPINIONS OF HISTORIANS CONCERNING THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION 1. The Historians of the Revolution 2. The theory of

Fatalism in respect of the Revolution 3. The hesitation of recent
Historians of the Revolution 4. Impartiality in History
CHAPTER II.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANCIEN
REGIME 1. The Absolute Monarchy and the Basis of the Ancien
Regime 2. The inconveniences of the Ancien Regime 3. Life under the
Ancien Regime 4. Evolution of Monarchical feeling during the
Revolution
CHAPTER III.
MENTAL ANARCHY AT THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTION AND
THE INFLUENCE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PHILOSOPHERS 1.
Origin and Propagation of Revolutionary Ideas 2. The supposed
influence of the Philosophers of the eighteenth century upon the
Genesis of the Revolution. Their dislike of Democracy 3. The
philosophical ideas of the Bourgeoisie at the time of the Revolution
CHAPTER IV.
PSYCHOLOGICAL ILLUSIONS RESPECTING THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION 1. Illusions respecting Primitive Man, the return to the
State of Nature, and the Psychology of the People 2. Illusions
respecting the possibility of separating Man from his Past and the
power of Transformation attributed to the Law 3. Illusions respecting
the Theoretical Value of the great Revolutionary Principles
BOOK II
THE RATIONAL, AFFECTIVE, MYSTIC, AND COLLECTIVE
INFLUENCES ACTIVE DURING THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER I.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY 1.

Psychological influences active during the French Revolution 2.
Dissolution of the Ancien Regime. The assembling of the States
General 3. The constituent Assembly
CHAPTER II.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 1.
Political events during the life of the Legislative Assembly 2. Mental
characteristics of the Legislative Assembly
CHAPTER III.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CONVENTION 1. The Legend of the
Convention 2. Results of the triumph of the Jacobin Religion 3. Mental
characteristics of the Convention
CHAPTER IV.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONVENTION 1. The activity