it follows that any credible attempt to explain revolutions needs to consider the conditions under which mass mobilisation is achieved. this includes an analysis of the prevailing social as well as political conditions that are conducive to the emergence of revolutionary mass mobilisation. Revolutions are political episodes to the extent that they denote the institutional crumbling of an old political order and its replacement by new political objects, arrangements and structures. Exactly how this collapse and the subsequent replacement are brought about is a manifestation of not only political dynamics but also of all those other factors