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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. — Barbara Tuchman

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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 · 1972
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Revolution
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Historical literature
Time
1972
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Barbara Tuchman
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Tuchman, Barbara W. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45. Macmillan, 1972, ch. 8.

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