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How Do Old Political Orders Lose Their Legitimacy? - The Contested Transfer of Legitimacy | Sleepy Facts About History
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The violence of revolution is easy to photograph, but the true historical turning point happens when people stop acting as if the old order is legitimate and begin organizing as if a new one is possible. This episode examines the precise differences between revolutions, coups, revolts, civil wars, and independence struggles. By looking at examples from the French Revolution and the English Civil War to the Haitian uprising and the Russian Revolution, it explores how organized alternatives…
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