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Lapham's Quarterly has just published, in print and partially online, an edition devoted to texts from historical revolutions. In the editor's introduction, Lewis Lapham vents his spleen - with an unquantifiable admixture of irony - on the devaluation of 'revolution' as a term and concept that ought to be so very apt for deployment in the contemporary world. While perhaps overly focused on the US scene, he neglects to discuss the very contemporary situation of Ukraine, where many observers thought they were seeing the next in a very long line of recent 'revolutionary' happenings. There, instead, and on a very much shorter timeframe than, for example, in Egypt, we have seen once more that calling something a revolution has only the most limited of effects on its actual outcomes.