Everyday Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans explores the interplay between radical eventfulness and the routines of everyday life. Drawing on a growing body of interdisciplinary research on the transformative potential of ordinary practices, this introduction outlines the volume’s analytical framework, positions it within prevailing approaches to revolution in history, philosophy, political science and social anthropology, and highlights its broader relevance for debates on sociopolitical change in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Challenging conventional understandings of revolution, this framework approaches sociopolitical transformation as an open-ended process that cannot be reduced to fixed definitions, linear causal chains or conventional metrics of success. Rather than asking what counts as a revolution, it asks how everyday practices and mundane realities acquire revolutionary potential. By emphasising polysemy, ambivalence and contestation, the volume critiques singular, monolithic conceptions of revolution while simultaneously expanding the analytical category itself. The volume’s contributions follow three lines of inquiry. First, they examine diverse sites where revolutionary moments unfold beyond parliaments and urban squares. Second, they explore subtle forms of protest, showing how everyday practices, memory and satire create spaces of critique. Third, they highlight overlooked actors whose inconspicuous resistance under authoritarianism sustains political agency and collective visions of change.