Description: Further DetailsTitle: Prestige, Manipulation, and CoercionCondition: NewSubtitle: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and MaoISBN-10: 0300254237EAN: 9780300254235ISBN: 9780300254235Publisher: Yale University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/12/2022Description: How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores “Joseph Torigian’s stellar research and personal interviews have produced a brilliant, meticulous study. It fundamentally undermines what political scientists have presumed to be the way Chinese Communist and Soviet politics operate.”—Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine “[Torigian’s] work is absolutely outstanding.”—Stephen Kotkin, ChinaTalk The political successions in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao, respectively, are often explained as triumphs of inner-party democracy, leading to a victory of “reformers” over “conservatives” or “radicals.” In traditional thinking, Leninist institutions provide competitors a mechanism for debating policy and making promises, stipulate rules for leadership selection, and prevent 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 instead shaped by the politics of personal prestige, historical antagonisms, backhanded political maneuvering, and violence. Mining newly discovered material from Russia and China, Torigian challenges the established historiography and suggests a new way of thinking about the nature of power in authoritarian regimes.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Joseph TorigianGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
Price: 77.28 USD
Location: GU14 0GT
End Time: 2024-11-22T02:19:39.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Return policy details:
Book Title: Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion
Title: Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion
Subtitle: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin
ISBN-10: 0300254237
EAN: 9780300254235
ISBN: 9780300254235
Release Date: 07/12/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion : Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Europe / Eastern, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern / 20th Century, Asia / China
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Joseph Torigian
Subject Area: History
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
