Too Many Wannabe Elites: A Story of Russia (and Possibly America)

I don't like the term, as it seems to imply a zero-sum solution of educating less people, but I thought it was accepted that "revolutions" are generally led by the ones who will gain most from the new regime.

Like the Magna Carta limiting the King so the nobles have more power, US Independence where "all men are equal" but rich white men are top of the tree and so on.

A historian claims a unique theory called elite overproduction can predict social unrest. Macrohistorian Peter Turchin argues that it allowed for nihilism in Czarist Russia and eventually the end of the regime. In America, it's still unclear.