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| List of figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Perspectives | |
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| Theorizing rvolutions | |
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| Defining revolution | |
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| Historical perspectives on revolutions | |
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| A theory of Third World social revolutions | |
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| The method of studying revolutions | |
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| Revolutionary success | |
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| The great social revolutions | |
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| Mexico's unfinished revolution, 1910-20 | |
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| The longest revolution: China, 1911-49 | |
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| The making of a revolution: Cuba, 1953-59 | |
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| The Sandinista synthesis in Nicaragua, 1977-79 | |
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| Iran, 1977-79: a surprising prototype for the Third World | |
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| Conclusion: the route to social revolution | |
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| The closest cousins: the great anti-colonial revolutions | |
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| The Battle of Algeria, 1954-62 | |
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| The Angolan Revolution, 1960s-1975: from liberation movement to civil war | |
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| Mozambique, 1960s-1975: the advantages of relative unity | |
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| Zimbabwe, 1960s-1980: anti-racist revolution | |
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| Vietnam, 1945-75: the three revolutions | |
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| Conclusion: the anti-colonial variant | |
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| Revolutionary failure | |
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| The greatest tragedies: reversed revolutions | |
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| The rise to power of revolutionary movements | |
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| Bolivia 1952: a sudden rebellion | |
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| The Chilean path to revolution, 1970 | |
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| Grenada's swift success, 1979 | |
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| Iran 1951, Guatemala 1944, and Jamaica 1972: two elections and an uprising | |
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| Falling from power | |
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| Bolivia after 1952 | |
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| Chile 1973 | |
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| Grenada 1983 | |
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| Nicaragua in the 1980s | |
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| Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Jamaica 1980: two coups and an election | |
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| Conclusions: success and failure in one act | |
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| The great contrasts: attempts, political revolutions, and non-attempts | |
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| Attempted revolutions | |
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| El Salvador's near revolution | |
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| The Sendero Luminoso in Peru | |
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| China, 1989 | |
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| Algeria in the 1990s | |
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| Guatemala since the 1960s, Argentina in the 1970s, and the Philippines after 1986 | |
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| A comparative analysis of attempts | |
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| A look at political revolutions | |
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| The fall of the Manchus in China, people's power in the Philippines, and the ouster of "Baby Doc" in Haiti | |
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| The uprooting of apartheid | |
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| From the Congo to Zaire, and back | |
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| A comparative analysis of political revolutions | |
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| No attempt: the reasons why | |
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| Iraq: where political culture prevented revolution? | |
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| Iran and Egypt: the counter-revolutionary power of repressive tolerance | |
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| Cuba: the advantages of culture | |
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| South Korea and Taiwan: the advantages of real development | |
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| Argentina, Brazil, and Turkey: dependent development and democracy | |
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| Comparing non-attempts | |
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| Chiapas: the first revolution of the new millennium | |
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| Concluding thoughts on the failure of revolutions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The past and future of revolutions | |
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| What have we learned about the origins of revolutions? | |
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| A summary of results | |
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| A concern with the future of revolutions | |
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| How to study the future | |
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| Globalization: the highest stage of capitalism? | |
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| An aside on September 11: the crisis every/no one was waiting for... | |
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| How might the revolutions of the future have better end(ing)s? | |
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| By way of concluding thoughts | |
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| Notes | |
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| Works cited | |
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| Index | |