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Bring out the commonality between a social movement and a revolution. Would you agree with the view that each revolution is preceded by a social movement? Give reasons.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Politics and Society

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A social movement, in M. S. A. Rao's terms, is sustained collective mobilisation with organisation and ideology directed at change; a revolution, for Theda Skocpol, is a rapid basic transformation of a society's state and class structures. They differ in scope and tempo, but they belong to the same family of extra-institutional collective challenge —…

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