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The Mexican Revolution
The revolution began as a rising against Porfirio Díaz declaring himself elected once more after thirty years in power, and became a civil war between several armies. The constitution of 1917 was the first anywhere to set out social rights — the eight-hour day, the right to strike, land reform, state ownership of the subsoil — several years before the Russian Revolution's equivalents. Land reform was carried out only in the 1930s under Cárdenas, who also nationalised the oil in 1938. The revolution is Mexico's founding story as the war of independence is America's, and Zapata's name was taken up again in 1994.
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