<P> The term regime change is sometimes erroneously used to describe a change in the government of the day . </P> <P> The term regime change can also be applied to bodies other than nation states . </P> <P> Regime change can be precipitated by revolution or a coup d'état . The Russian Revolution, the 1962 Burmese coup and the 1990 collapse of communism in Eastern Europe (→ #Dissolution of the Eastern Bloc) are consummate examples . </P> <P> Examples of internally driven regime change are the establishment of the French Fifth Republic (1958) and the Federation of Australia . </P>

A change of government by force is a