Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Biography & Autobiography Memoirs African American & Black Social Science Discrimination There's a special surprise waiting

There's a special surprise waiting at the front door

in the 1850s

“A wonderful and sweet book

And how do you keep a family together when you’re oceans apart

" —Pablo Cartaya

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Biography & Autobiography Memoirs African American & Black Social Science Discrimination There's a special surprise waitingWhy the worlds most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolutionsuch as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnamare 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.