In his lectures on the philosophy of history, given at the University of Berlin between 1822 and 1831, only a few decades after the storming of the Bastille, G. W. F. Hegel noted that the significance of the French Revolution, with its “external expansion,” had been “world historical,” changing the history of not only one country, but the globe. His view reflected the vision many French and other revolutionaries of the time had had themselves. Some years later, in 1848, as revolutions spread across Europe and beyond, Marx and Engels reflected on the prospect of world revolution, calling for the “workers of the world” to ”unite.” Similarly, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, Lenin claimed that the time had come for the revolutionaries across “all countries and nations throughout the world” to rise in “alliance and unity.”