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How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores Joseph Torigians 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 Read more