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The Twentieth-Century Revolutions of Mexico, China, and Russia were similar to the Atlantic Revolutions of America, Haiti, and France in that they wished to overthrow aristocracies and abusive governments in order to move toward republicanism, but they were influenced by differing political systems, social situations such as abolition of slaves, nationalism, and the distribution of wealth; and of course the uprising of different leaders.

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No, a comma is correct, but you have a run-on sentence.

Re: Grammar

The Twentieth Century Revolutions of Mexico, China, and Russia were similar to the Atlantic Revolutions of America, Haiti, and France as they all wanted to overthrow aristocracies and abusive governments in order to move toward republicanism. However, they were influenced by differing political systems, social situations (such as abolition of slaves, nationalism, and the distribution of wealth), and, of course, the uprising of different leaders.

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However, they were influenced by differing political systems; social situations, such as abolition of slaves, nationalism, and the distribution of wealth; and, of course, the uprising of different leaders.

The top version is far clearer.

I also think it works better as two sentences.


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