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Blueprint for Revolution is a self-help book on the huge scale. Srdja Popovic, part of the non-violent revolutuonaries Otpor!, toppled their dictator and created a democracy in Serbia. Now he is a "non-violent democracy advisor" for hire, and his theories and other non-violent revolutuonary struggles are detailed in this book.
While I usually stay away from these types of books, this story is well written with big pinch of self-mockery. While it goes without saying the author has more than enough authority to write about revolutions and their success, the subject comes across as hugely complicated: hardly something that can be explained in 250-ish pages. It is exactly what this book does well though: it established some good ground rules, backs them up with real-life events that showed the rule working, and then really emphasises that your creativity is the other 90% that's needed.
You don't need to be an aspiring revolutionary to take something out of this book. It talks about what really makes social change work, and how simple things (community, (brand) image, planning, having a goal) go a long way. I'd go as far as saying this book can be applied to designing any social intervention, non-revolutionary included. The book would do well to rename to; how to make social change easy (10 step program). But that wouldn't sell well, I know.
While I usually stay away from these types of books, this story is well written with big pinch of self-mockery. While it goes without saying the author has more than enough authority to write about revolutions and their success, the subject comes across as hugely complicated: hardly something that can be explained in 250-ish pages. It is exactly what this book does well though: it established some good ground rules, backs them up with real-life events that showed the rule working, and then really emphasises that your creativity is the other 90% that's needed.
You don't need to be an aspiring revolutionary to take something out of this book. It talks about what really makes social change work, and how simple things (community, (brand) image, planning, having a goal) go a long way. I'd go as far as saying this book can be applied to designing any social intervention, non-revolutionary included. The book would do well to rename to; how to make social change easy (10 step program). But that wouldn't sell well, I know.