1. This literature is far too voluminous to cite in its entirety. Essays discussing contending theories of revolution can be found in Theda Skocpol, Social Revolutions in the Modern World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994
2. Nikki R. Keddie (ed.), Debating Revolutions, New York: New York University Press, 1995
3. John Foran (ed.), Theorizing Revolutions, London: Routledge, 1997
4. Mark N. Katz, Reflections on Revolutions, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
5. Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 14–18.