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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Martin K. Dimitrov
The Chinese Communist Party celebrated its one-hundredth birthday in 2021. Its durability poses a twofold question: How has the party survived thus far? And is its survival formula sustainable in…
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This volume provides an explanation for the surprising resilience of communist autocracies, including the ten regimes that ultimately collapsed in 1989-91 (the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary…
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in such regimes gives rise to the "dictator's dilemma,"…
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