Blueprint for Revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world

by Srdja Popovic

We revere the warriors, but have the warriors really shaped history? Consider the following: the main outcome of World War I was World War II, and the main outcome of World War II was the Cold War, which in turn gave us Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the war on terror, and so on. But what did the world get from Martin Luther King Jr.? Civil rights and a black president in 2008. And what was the historic legacy of Gandhi? The independence of India and the end of colonialism. And Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement during the 1980s, what did he achieve? The end of Communism in Eastern Europe. And who was Lech Walesa? Just an electrician at the Gdansk shipyards, a hobbit if there ever was one.