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Well, simply no. Almost all proposed uses for CDs are rather impractical or would be popular only among some geeks. Without computers to use recorded data, CD means just a better walkman.
Don't underrate walkmans. They were behind the Iranian revolution. Tape recordings allowed a cleric to spread his message to a much larger audience.
I was going to say... aren't the USSR and Iran two of the paradigmatic cases for new media technologies helping enable revolutions?
You seem very certain of this. Could you develop your argument? Many technologies have ended up being used in ways that were not predicted or expected.
Now we know how magnitophones were used. Proposed things are technically possible with cassetes but were not that popular at all. There is no reason to expect that CD recorders would have been used in very different way.
I don't think media played any significant role in USSR case.