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Exporting the revolution

actions by a victorious revolutionary government to promote similar revolutions in other states

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ1428579 ↗
Source-derived summary

Exporting the revolution is actions by a victorious revolutionary government of one country to promote similar revolutions in unruled areas or other countries as a manifestation of revolutionary internationalism of certain kind, such as the Marxist proletarian internationalism.

Fred Halliday analyzes the traits of the export of revolution by case studies of the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Iranian Revolution.

See also

Cuban Revolution

Cuban military internationalism

Cultural Revolution

Democracy promotion

Domino theory

Empire of Liberty

French Revolution

Sister republic

Interventionism

Iranian Revolution

Exporting the Islamic Revolution

Regime change

Revolutionary wave

Russian Revolution

Workers of the world, unite!

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Exporting the revolution” as actions by a victorious revolutionary government to promote similar revolutions in other states. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Exporting, revolution and actions.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 100-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Exporting, revolution and actions providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1428579. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Exporting the revolution” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.