BMUN LXIX VIENNA

Arguably the most notable, iconic, and influential political revolution, besides maybe the French Revolution, was the Haitian Revolution that took place in the years 1791-1804. This date is moderately superficial though, for most historians would argue that the people of Haiti had been in a constant state of rebellion from their French and British colonizers since their inception as a product of Europe’s colonial fetish. Despite the magnitude of the Haitian Revolution’s role in history, you may be questioning why we, your chairs, feel the Haitian Revolution important enough to mention in a committee regarding the Congress of Vienna, an event occurring thousands of kilometers away from Haiti. The answer is this: without the Haitian Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars may have seen a much different, possibly more drawn-out end, which would in turn affect the existence of the Congress of Vienna, itself, as an attempt to salvage the continent left behind by Napoleon and his oh so grand wars....

  As discussed in the topic synopsis, we can (somewhat sloppily) place most interpretations of the French Revolution into two categories: the Marxist and the Revisionist interpretations. In most cases, a single framework or theory is unlikely to explain everything or completely evade contradiction; thus, an effective method of establishing viewpoints can be to determine the best elements of a given model and combine it with the best elements of other models (though, of course, advanced thinkers often create entirely new models). Hence, it is not our contention that you should rigidly adhere to the basic tenets of a single interpretation, but rather that you consider the arguments in depth and craft your own opinions. The perspective you form regarding the causes of French Revolution should be critical to your position paper solutions and arguments at our conference, as preventing the carnage of another such event was of critical importance to delegates in Vienna, so further rea...