革命浪潮(英語:revolutionary wave),有時稱為革命十年(revolutionary decade),是指在特定時間範圍內發生的一系列革命。在許多情況下,過去的革命和革命浪潮激勵了當前的革命,或者一場初始革命激發了其他具有相似目標的並行「附屬革命」。革命浪潮的原因已成為歷史學家和政治哲學家研究的課題,包括羅伯特·羅斯威爾·帕爾默、克雷恩·布林頓、漢娜·阿倫特、埃里克·霍弗和雅克·戈德肖等。包括賈斯廷·雷蒙多和米高·林德在內的作家和活動家使用「革命浪潮」一詞,來描述在短時間內發生的獨立革命[1][2][3][4][5]。
Nader Sohrabi, Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran, Cambridge University Press, 2011 pp. 74, 83, 87, 90, 94, 96, ISBN 0-521-19829-1, ISBN 978-0-521-19829-5
Michael Lind, Vietnam, the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, Simon and Schuster, 2002
p 37 ISBN 0-684-87027-4, ISBN 978-0-684-87027-4 - "The revolutionary wave effect produced by the fall of Saigon in 1975 was far more significant than the regional domino effect in Southeast Asia proper. [...] Mark N. Katz has identified a 'Marxist-Leninist revolutionary wave' that peaked in the 1960s and 1970s, along with an 'Arab nationalist revolutionary wave' that began with the [1978-1979] Iranian Revolution. Samuel P. Huntington has identified a 'democratic wave' that began with the defeat of the Soviet bloc in the Cold War. [...] The Marxist-Leninist revolutionary wave associated with the Vietnam War saw 'affiliate Marxist-Leninist revolutions' come to power outside of Indochina in the Congo (1964, 1968), Benin (1972), Ethiopia and Guinea-Bissau (1974), Madagascar, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Angola (1975), Afghanistan (1978), and Grenada and Nicaragua (1979)."