On 2010-10-13, at 10:13 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
> It was NOT - and let me be quite
> emphatic about this - not brought about by popular discontent, let
> alone any revolutionary party, even though popular discontent was
> quite high under these regimes.
Neither of us was dere, cholly, so best to avoid being "quite emphatic" one way or the other. But we do read the evidence of what these 20th century revolutions had in common very differently, for sure.