Planned-‘revolution’ was a learnable module that made twentieth-century revolutions conceivable in backward societies

Evidence

But, thanks to print-capitalism, the French experience was not merely ineradicable from human memory, it was also learnable-from. Out of almost a century of modular theorizing and practical experimentation came the Bolsheviks, who made the first successful ‘planned’ revolution (even if the success would not have been possible without Hindenburg’s earlier triumphs at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes) and attempted to carry out a systematic programme (even if in practice improvisation was the order of the day). It also seems clear that without such plans and programmes a revolution in a realm barely entering the era of industrial capitalism was out of the question. The Bolshevik revolutionary model has been decisive for all twentieth-century revolutions because it made them imaginable in societies still more backward than All the Russias. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 619

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes ‘modular’ revolution as a mechanism — a transferable plan making the impossible imaginable — key scaffolding vocabulary.
• XREF: connects to: Revolution and nationalism are piratable inventions that lock societies into ahead-behind self-perception — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 618

Related

• Revolution and nationalism are piratable inventions that lock societies into ahead-behind self-perception (similarity 0.82)
• Revolution and nationalism are pirateable inventions like capitalism and Marxism (similarity 0.80)