04055cam a2200541 i 4500 22415397 BJBSDDR 20231122124556.0 ta 220208s2022 njuad b 001 0 eng d 2022932449 GBC2C1466 bnb 020675906 Uk 0691169527 (hardback) 9780691169521 (hardback) 9780691223575 (ePub ebook) (OCoLC)on1292974437 YDX eng rda YDX BDX UKMGB OCLCF PUL TXI IAD CDX B6U NZAUC TFW ZLM DLC eng lccopycat JC 491 L666r 2022 303.6/4 Levitsky, Steven, 1968- 8979 Revolution and dictatorship : the violent origins of durable authoritarianism / Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way. Jacket title: Revolution & dictatorship Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2022 xi, 638 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-605) and index. A Theory of Revolutionary Durability -- The Revolutionary Origins of Soviet Durability -- The Revolutionary Origins of Chinese Authoritarian Durability -- The Durability of Mexico's Revolutionary Regime -- Regime Origins and Diverging Paths in Vietnam, Algeria, and Ghana -- Radicalism and Durability : Cuba and Iran -- Radical Failures : Early Deaths of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, the Khmer Rouge, and the Taliban -- Accommodation and Instability : Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Guinea-Bissau. "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 such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism. Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, monarchies, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest--three principal sources of authoritarian breakdown. Looking at a range of revolutionary and nonrevolutionary regimes from across the globe, Revolution and Dictatorship shows why governments that emerge from violent conflict endure." -- Page 2 of cover Revolutions. Revoluciones 2688 Authoritarianism. Autoritarismo 3558 Political stability. Dictatorship. Dictadura 14236 Authoritarianism Way, Lucan Ahmad, 1968- 32796 Online version: Levitsky, Steven. Revolution and dictatorship. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022] 0691223572 (OCoLC)1337944320 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 120232 120232 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-11-02 0 JC 491 L666r 2022 00000173553 2023-11-02 00:00:00 1 2023-11-02 BK