Background: The main scientific concepts of the role, place and time of revolutions in postindustrial society can come to revolutionary, recognizing the need for a political coup and overdue reforms, and counter-revolutionary, denying the functionality of revolutions. The main difference between postindustrial and industrial revolutions is the reduction of their intensity and the implementation of revolutions in certain spheres or even sub-spheres of society. The technological, communication, information and cultural revolutions are the most probable and characteristic of contemporary postindustrial society. Results: In postindustrial society, the forms and process of revolutions have changed, which begin in any sphere or even sub-sphere, and then spread to some other spheres and sub-spheres. Unlike the era of industrialism, which was characterized by sociopolitical, inclusive revolutions, postindustrial revolutions usually begin in one sphere or even sub-sphere and are not encompassing and pervasive. Postind