Postwar social revolutions transformed state and class structures from below outside Europe

Evidence

Even by Misagh Parsa’s demanding definition of revolutions as “rapid, basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures that are carried through class-based revolts from below,” however, a number of postwar revolutions occurred outside of Europe. Parsa himself identifies Iran (1979) and Nicaragua (1979) as genuine social revolutions, and treats the overthrow of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos (1986) as a “political” revolution that consequently produced less change than occurred in Iran and Nicaragua (Parsa 2000, 26–28). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1074

Categorization

• DEFINE: Parsa’s demanding definition of revolution — class-based revolt from below producing rapid basic transformation of state and class structures — distinguishes social from merely political revolutions.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1074
• XREF: connects to: The Old Left thrived across Eurasia and the Third World in the early 1960s — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 86; Postwar genuine revolutions occurred on three continents beyond Europe. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1084