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This paper summarizes and discusses the work of Theda
Skocpol, perhaps the most influential recent theory of revolution.
The main concern of her theory is to explain why social revolution has been the crucial vehicle of transformation in a number of
societies. International pressure on the state, peasant insurrection, and the presence of marginal elites are important conditions for
the "comming" of social revolutions. It is the argument of this paper that due to the nature of subject, her mehod of inquiry,
and the lack of precision in the application of logical principles into the study that her theory lacks adequate explanatory and
predictive power: and her theory is as ideological as those whom she critiques.