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Most versions attribute the remark to Zhou, and some assign it to Mao Tse-tung; most versions include U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, though some name French ambassador André Malraux. Unsourced accounts are rife, including by respected scholars in reputable journals. Gary Sick names Malraux and also invokes it with regard to Iran. See
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Most versions attribute the remark to Zhou, and some assign it to Mao Tse-tung; most versions include U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, though some name French ambassador André Malraux. Unsourced accounts are rife, including by respected scholars in reputable journals. Gary Sick names Malraux and also invokes it with regard to Iran. See Gary Sick, "Iran: The Adolescent Revolution," Journal of International Affairs 49 (1995): 145.
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The revolutions of France, Russia, and China seem to be more or less universally recognized by scholars, politicians, and regular people as the great revolutions. As noted, this list is at times expanded to include Mexico, Cuba (more often), Nicaragua, and Iran, dubbed the last such revolution by Robin Wright. Wright, The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (New York: Knopf, 2000).
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The revolutions of France, Russia, and China seem to be more or less universally recognized by scholars, politicians, and regular people as the "great revolutions." As noted, this list is at times expanded to include Mexico, Cuba (more often), Nicaragua, and Iran, dubbed the "last" such revolution by Robin Wright. Wright, The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (New York: Knopf, 2000).
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A nice summation of the "France, Russia, China" perspective can be found in Michael Walzer, "Intellectuals, Social Classes, and Revolution," in Democracy, Revolution, and History, ed. Theda Skocpol (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999), 128.
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Sophisticated and nuanced fine-tuning on this is found in the work of Valentine Moghadam. Moghadam has variously described it as, among other things, a populist political revolution, in Moghadam, "One Revolution or Two," 75; "a populist, anti-imperialist social revolution," in Moghadam, "Populist Revolution and the Islamic State in Iran," in Revolution in the World-System: Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System, ed. Terry Boswell (New York: Greenwood, 1989), 149
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