Alexander Pushkin was Wrong

Alexander Pushkin once wrote that “the most lasting social changes are those that result from gradual improvements rather than from violent upheaval.? Though Pushkin’s observation may hold true with the United Soviet Socialists Republic and its disintegration, one can see through the annals of history that there are more instances of social change through boisterous turmoil than through gradual changes. Of the most conspicuous exemplifications are the Black Plague and its effect on the balance between commoners and the nobility, World War II and women’s rights, and the McCarthy era and its blacklisted victims.
During the Medieval Ages, the Black Plague swept through every European city as the angle of death, killing thousands and distur...