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... States and urban-based revolutions: Iran and Nicaragua. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): x, 147 p. SUBJECT(S): Iran; Nicaragua; Politics and government; 1979-1997; 1979-1990; Revolutions; Case studies. DISCIPLINE:... more
... States and urban-based revolutions: Iran and Nicaragua. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): x, 147 p. SUBJECT(S): Iran; Nicaragua; Politics and government; 1979-1997; 1979-1990; Revolutions; Case studies. DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned. ...
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... The country's Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, delivered part of his Friday Prayer sermon in ... 4 February had already witnessed the departure of Zine El Abedin bin Ali and were ... despite the failed attempt during the... more
... The country's Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, delivered part of his Friday Prayer sermon in ... 4 February had already witnessed the departure of Zine El Abedin bin Ali and were ... despite the failed attempt during the presidency of reformist Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005 ...
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The purpose of this article is to assess the usefulness of the theoretical insights generated by Theda Skocpol's theory of revolution in explaining the Iranian and Nicaraguan revolutions. The major contention of this study is that... more
The purpose of this article is to assess the usefulness of the theoretical insights generated by Theda Skocpol's theory of revolution in explaining the Iranian and Nicaraguan revolutions. The major contention of this study is that she has formulated a useful framework for understanding social revolutions. However, given the manner in which she links her analysis to specific historical context, her propositions need to be modified in order to be applied to more recent revolutionary cases. Her analysis can become more applicable to the contemporary world by (1) locating it in the changing balance of class forces occasioned by combined and uneven development of capitalism on a world scale, (2) developing an understanding of the internal dynamics of states in peripheral formations, and (3) introducing a broader understanding of ideology. These modifications will enable us to explain the changing coalescence of oppositional groupings as manifested in the changing importance of intermediate classes, and to single out a particular type of state as distinctively susceptible to revolution.
