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Appendix 8- Wars Both Foreign and Domestic

Revolutions

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What Happens After Revolutionary Victory?

The entropy of victory is a nearly universal characteristic that follows any successful revolution. The particulars depend very much on time, place and circumstance. All revolutions are civil wars because at least two sides are contesting sovereign power using force. There's always going to be a faction committed to the restoration of the old regime but it's notalways possible for them to wage some kind of counter-revolutionary war against the new revolutionary regime.

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