How is it possible for Ideological Analysts to place Reactionary Coups on an equal footing with the Great October Revolution or the Cuban Revolution and/or the Chinese Revolution or the Vietnamese and North Korean ones and the Anti-colonial Revolutions in India Africa and Latin America in the 20th.Century under the title of "The World's Greatest Power Takeovers"? They might as well have included following the lines of this narrative the events in the 1930's that overthrew Democratic Governments in Germany and Italy and Spain or the fascist coups in Greece Chile Argentina in the 1970's. There appears to be a vital lack of study of the Class Nature in Social Events. Who benefits from them? They need to get back to Marx Engels and Lenin and Mao and initiate those vital "Two Steps Forward" in the current economic political and ideological crisis that Worldwide Capitalism is in!! Instead of "being nice" to religion at State level let's get back to "What's To Be Done?" "Where To Begin?" ///snowyone.

The subject is power changes, so it does not bother me which ones are mentioned if discussing power changes. However, if ranked in significance, then leaving out the Chinese revolution of 1949; and the victory of the NLF in Vietnam is careless. Both are very significant power changes and the consequences are still rolling out in the world from them. I never understood the Soviet/Chinese split anyway...something about the Soviets wanted to build a Soviet military naval base in China? You don't split with a neighbor over such things...making an enemy when you couild have a friend who is your next door neighbor. I don't get it, I never got it, I never will.

haha snowyone, who the hell told you that religion is bad? Media? True Christianity turned into communism, communism was a religion, and as a ´new´religion it wants to destroy the old one it basically came from. To be Christian means to be socialist, no matter how media or fools without knowledge spin it.

The Haitian Revolution is one of the great power takeovers in history. What makes so remarkable is that it was done in the 1800's by a group of former slaves.