Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

by Lucan Way and Steven Levitsky

Book Overview

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution

Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691169527
• ISBN13: 9780691169521
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"