What Happened Afterward?

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Post-revolutionary revolutions produce a revolutionary legitimacy afterward, which afterwards may be exploited by various political forces appealing to this legitimacy and purshing forward. Theyre often quite unpopular. Soand that and other consequence of them, they are not creating strong, stable political regimes. Forexample, t result of the rational revolution, the the political regime that lasted for over 70 years.

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