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She centers her explanation for social revolutions on State structures, international competitive pressures and international Demonstration Effect s, and class relations, drawing on the Marxist and Structuralist schools but not conforming completely to either. In terms of long term impact, her conception of the state as an independent actor within society and partially autonomous from other interests has been important in shaping later thought in political science.

The book is structured as a case study of the French Revolution , the Russian Revolution , and the Chinese Revolution . Skocpol argues that these three cases, spread over about a century and a half, are fundamentally similar instances.