The year 1789 proved to be a pivotal and historic time of political upheaval, radical social movements and the demolition of the old-age monarchy in France. The tennis court oath, the storming of the Bastille, the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the unprecedented assault on Versailles as well as the use of the guillotine defined the spirit and the historical meaning of the French Revolution. Due to the significance of these political and social upheavals, many positions have been taken regarding the interpretation of the revolution. The ideas formed regarding the interpretation of the causes and effects of the French Revolution are important for understanding the birth of new political ideologies that changed the landscape of the European political order. Political ideologies such as conservative, liberal, and revisionism have produced multiple perspectives around the events of the French Revolution. This essay will present each ideology through the analysis of the causes and effects of the French Revolution. The characteristics of conservative ideology made members of the aristocracy and clergy of French society hostile to the rapid development of politics. On June 17, 1789, the Third Estate drafted a constitution and created the “National Assembly” in response to its exclusion from the ordinary meetings of the Estates General (Doyle, 2002). Pressure from the National Assembly forced Louis XVI to modify the votes to count individuals and not classes. This event was considered by conservatives as anarchy and the beginnings of counter-revolutionary ideas began to be implemented in order to ensure the survival of the monarchy (Osen, 1995). The conservatives wanted to return to the old order after the radical reform...... middle of paper ......ution. New York: Quill, William Morrow. Lefebvre, Georges (1962). The French Revolution Volume I: From Its Origins to 1793. New York: Columbia University Press. Locke, J. (2003). Two government treaties and a letter concerning tolerance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Mannheim, Karl. (1936). Ideology and utopia. London: Routledge. McGarr, P. (1998). Index of the socialist review. Retrieved from http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj80/france.htmMithium, B. (nd). History of the 18th century. Retrieved from http://www.history1700s.com/articles/article1096.shtml Osen, James (1995). Royalist political thought during the French Revolution. London: Greenwood Press. The British Socialist Party. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1980s/1989/no-1019-july-1989/1789-france's-bourgeois-revolution