[CITATION][C] How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse

B Geddes - 2018 - books.google.com
This accessible volume shines a light on how autocracy really works by providing basic facts
about how post-World War II dictatorships achieve, retain, and lose power. The authors …

Revolution and dictatorship: the violent origins of durable authoritarianism

S Levitsky, L Way - 2022 - torrossa.com
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Revolution and Dictatorship the violent origins of durable authoritarianism 9 Steven Levitsky …

The 'KGB state'and Russian political and foreign policy culture

K Marten - The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews a variety of historical analyses of the KGB and its follow-on organizations
to determine whether and how its organizational culture may be reflected in current Russian …

To purge or not to purge? An individual-level quantitative analysis of elite purges in dictatorships

E Goldring, AS Matthews - British Journal of Political Science, 2023 - cambridge.org
Why do dictators purge specific elites but not others? And why do dictators purge these
elites in certain ways? Examining these related questions helps us understand not only how …

[BOOK][B] Nested nationalism: Making and unmaking nations in the Soviet Caucasus

KA Goff - 2021 - degruyter.com
Nested Nationalism is a study of the politics and practices of managing national minority
identifications, rights, and communities in the Soviet Union and the personal and political …

[BOOK][B] Stalin's music prize: Soviet culture and politics

M Frolova-Walker - 2016 - books.google.com
Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet
Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes …

[BOOK][B] Substate dictatorship: Networks, loyalty, and institutional change in the Soviet Union

Y Gorlizki, O Khlevniuk - 2020 - books.google.com
An essential exploration of how authoritarian regimes operate at the local level How do local
leaders govern in a large dictatorship? What resources do they draw on? Yoram Gorlizki …

[BOOK][B] Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag

G Alexopoulos - 2017 - books.google.com
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Map of Locations of Forced Labor Camps and Colonies during the Stalin Years …

[BOOK][B] The Russia anxiety: And how history can resolve it

MB Smith - 2019 - books.google.com
A history of Russophobia and its living legacy in world affairs With proof of election-meddling
and the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin an ongoing conundrum, little …

[BOOK][B] Moscow monumental: Soviet skyscrapers and urban life in Stalin's capital

K Zubovich - 2020 - books.google.com
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline
of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel …