Iran’s 1979 revolution was a classical mass revolution

Evidence

For better or for worse—and from the start there have been different views on this—what happened in Iran can be seen as a revolution in the classical sense: a mass movement with wide popular participation that resulted in a major shift in economic as well as political power and that inaugurated—or, perhaps more accurately, continued—a process of vast social transformation. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1117

Categorization

• DEFINE: Posits a working definition of ‘revolution in the classical sense’: mass participation, shift in economic AND political power, and vast social transformation beyond elite replacement.