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Yair Wallach@yairwallach.bsky.social |
I often return to the words of my professor (Edward Acton, historian of the Russian Revolution): have you ever seen a ruling elite give up its entrenched power and privileges without violence or a credible threat of violence?
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Stefan Schuster
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Yes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of...
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Arguably the Russian Revolution simply swapped one ruling elite for another so I'm not sure it's a very uplifting example.
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