Successful revolutions ground themselves in inherited national territory

Evidence

Such considerations serve to underline the fact that since World War II every successful revolution has defined itself in national terms – the People’s Republic of China, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and so forth – and, in so doing, has grounded itself firmly in a territorial and social space inherited from the prerevolutionary past. Conversely, the fact that the Soviet Union shares with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the rare distinction of refusing nationality in its naming suggests that it is as much the legatee of the prenational dynastic states of the nineteenth century as the precursor of a twenty-first century internationalist order. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Revolution/nation linkage matters for postcolonial Islamophobia contexts, where anticolonial movements took national, not transnational or religious, forms. — connects to: Revolutionary regimes retroactively adopt dynastic national identities as state power — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 627; Leninists subordinated national borders to supernational revolutionary strategy; Premature uprisings limited the revolt’s potential final success (+7 more)

Related

• Revolutionary regimes retroactively adopt dynastic national identities as state power (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Leninists subordinated national borders to supernational revolutionary strategy #contradicts (0.95)
• Inner transformation precedes and drives national sovereignty #contradicts (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 618
• Colonial fragmentation paradoxically forges the unity that drives revolution #qualifies (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 391
• Premature uprisings limited the revolt’s potential final success #expands (0.72)
• Cross-cutting and contradictory loyalties helped stabilize the new republic #exemplifies (0.70) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 432
• Cross-cutting clan and regional loyalties stabilized the early Republic #exemplifies (0.70)