Dix, Robert. "The Varieties of Revolution." Comparative Politics 15:3 (Apr 1983): 281-294.

“In his Political Order in Changing Societies Samuel Huntington delineated two types of revolutions or revolutionary processes, the Western and the Eastern. Huntington argues, along with most other scholars, that true revolutions tend to take place only in “modernizing” or “transitional” societies. Thus the distinction between the two varieties of revolution derives essentially from the differences in the nature of the old regime. In the case of the so-called Western revolutions, a weak, traditional regime such as an absolute monarch disintegrates in the face of crisis and after only the minimal application of force against it. … In contrast, Eastern-style revolutions occur in the narrowly based but modernizing regimes such as colonial governments or military dictatorships.”

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