Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
The founder of Otpor! — the Serbian youth movement that toppled Milosevic — lays out an operational handbook for nonviolent resistance, covering street theater, humor as tactical weapon, coalition-building under repression, and how to make oppression backfire. Used to train organizers from the Arab Spring onward.
Key Takeaways
- Written by the founder of Otpor! — the movement that toppled Milosevic
- Operational handbook for nonviolent resistance under repression
- Humor and street theater as tactical weapons against authoritarian regimes
- Coalition-building techniques that worked against state violence
- Used to train organizers from the Arab Spring onward
Popovic didn't write theory — he overthrew a dictator. Then he trained movement leaders across the world to do the same. This book translates operational experience from Serbia, Egypt, Myanmar, and dozens of other countries into a replicable playbook. If you need nonviolent resistance to work against real state violence, this is the manual.
Srdja Popovic co-founded Otpor! ('Resistance!'), the student movement that led to the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. He later founded CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies), which has trained pro-democracy movements in over 50 countries.
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