Prestige, manipulation, and coercion elite power struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
"Political successions in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao are often explained as cases of inner-part democracy leading to a victory of "reformers" over "conservatives" or "radicals." In traditional thinking, the successions provided a mechanism for...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press
[2022]
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| Sumario: | "Political successions in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao are often explained as cases of inner-part democracy leading to a victory of "reformers" over "conservatives" or "radicals." In traditional thinking, the successions provided a mechanism for distributing patronage and debating policies, stipulating rules for leadership selection, and preventing the military and secret police from playing a coercive role. Here, Joseph Torigian argues that the post-cult of personality power struggles in history's two greatest Leninist regimes were shaped by a politics of personal prestige, historical antagonisms, backhanded political maneuvering, and a substantial role for specialists in violence. Mining newly discovered material from Russian and Chinese archives, as well as the archives of the U.S. State Department, Department of Defense, and the C.I.A., Torigian challenges the established historiography and suggests a new way of thinking about the nature of power in authoritarian regimes.”—Sitio web del editor. |
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| Descripción Física: | XVI, 296 páginas ; 24 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780300254235 |
