SPACE WEATHER AND REVOLUTIONS - CHIZEVSKYS HELIOBIOLOGICAL CLAIM SCRUTINIZED

Chizhevski's 1921 claim of a relationship between solar activity and r evolutionary 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 (chronologie s, 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 rando mizations. The relationship between solar activity and violence from-b elow proves to be very significant (p<.001). Results obtained from var ious controls corroborate the conclusion that the relationship is subs tantial. Ensuing physical, physiological, psychological, and societal problems raised by the awareness of correlations of human history with heliodependent environmental processes, need to be resolved.