Color revolutions became a very common phenomenon in the 21st century. A significant amount of factual material makes it possible to analyze the prerequisites for the emergence of color revolutions, their types and results in different regions of the planet. The article analyzes twenty-three color revolutions that took place on four continents. By a method of comparative analysis of data, the authors attempted to reveal patterns that provoke and prevent their occurrence. The combination of such factors as regional specificity, the type of political regime, the historical traditions of governance of different states, the state of society, the demographic composition of the population, external interference - determine the process and results of color revolutions. Groups of countries in which color revolutions follow similar scenarios were identified. The research shows that color revolutions will alter, as, on the one hand, the goals and objectives of the organizers change, and on the other hand, even in peripheral countries, political elites have accumulated a certain experience of counteraction. But they will remain for a long time in the arsenal of means of struggle of geopolitical subjects.