Heliodependent Societal Cycles
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* Article: Space weather and revolutions: chizevsky's heliobiological claim scrutinized. Suitbert Ertel. Institute fur Psychologie, January 1996
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"Chizhevski's 1921 claim of a relationship between solar activity and revolutionary mass behavior is scrutinized. A Master Index of Violence-from-below Events (MIVE) is compiled, consisting of 2101 events along with 4000 references extracted from 18 historical sources (chronologies, time-lines etc, period A.D. 1700-1985. The database is subjected to Q-analysis whose output, average distances of most violent years from solar maximum years, allows for significance estimates based on randomizations. The relationship between solar activity and violence-from-below proves to be very significant (p < .001). Results obtained from various controls corroborate the conclusion that the relationship is substantial. Ensuing physical, physiological, psychological, and societal problems raised by the awareness of correlations of human history with heliodependent environmental processes, need to be resolved."