Getting a tad worried about the chaps who have rented our cabins for the last 3 years...
Spotted this on the door of one of the cabins. Doesn't look like a Russian number to me, but it could be a local UK cell...
Talking of Russia, I was thinking about the difference between a civil war and a revolution and couldn't distinguish between the two, so I did a bit of Googling.
One analysis suggested that ‘Our preconceptions about the two forms of [violence] strive to keep them apart ... Civil wars are destructive; revolutions are progressive. Civil wars are sterile; revolutions are fertile with innovation and transformative possibilities.'
This seems to agree with most definitions I can find - civil wars are generally fought by opposing factions for control without any major change to the constitution, whereas revolutions generally lead to a radically new form of government.
I was surprised to discover that since 1989, over 95% of conflicts are civil wars or revolutions, as opposed to wars between sovereign states.
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