Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao Cover
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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao

Joseph Torigian

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

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The Ezra Klein Show

Klein called it an extraordinary account of highpolitics in China that uses exceptional archival documentation to explain how Chinese leaders make decisions, and he strongly recommended it.

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a book on decisionmaking in China called Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion, which is an extraordinary account of high politics in China over the last halfcentury that illustrates with just really e...

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Klein called it an extraordinary account of highpolitics in China that uses exceptional archival documentation to explain how Chinese leaders make decisions, and he strongly recommended it.

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a book on decisionmaking in China called Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion, which is an extraordinary account of high politics in China over the last halfcentury that illustrates with just really exceptional archival documentation how Chinese politics has shifted and the key drivers in it.

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