How long does it take to read Blueprint for Revolution?
Srdja Popovic
Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic takes about 5 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 282 pages, about 77,550 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In Blueprint for Revolution, Srdja Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists everywhere through stories of his own experience toppling dictatorships (peacefully) and of smaller examples of social change (like Occupy Wall Street or fighting for gay rights or zoning changes). Through examples of using laughter and music (e.g., Pussy Riot) to disarm the opposition and gather supporters, to staging a protest of Lego Men in Siberia (when flesh-and-blood people would have been shot), to a boycott of Cottage cheese in Israel to challenge price inflation while organizing around rice pudding to overthrow the dictator of the Maldives, Popovic uses true and sometimes outrageously clever examples of the ways in which non-violent resistance has achieved its means. Popovic argues in favor of non-violent resistance not for ideological reasons (as persuasive as those are) but because non-violence actually works better than violence. An inspiring (and useful!) guide for any activist--and a thoroughly entertaining read for any armchair politico"--
Subjects: Nonviolence, Protest movements, Revolutions, Civil disobedience, Political aspects, Philosophy
