Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion - Elite Power Struggles in Soviet Union China After Stalin Mao

Joseph Torigian explores the power struggles that followed the deaths of Stalin and Mao. Mining newly discovered material, he challenges the established historiography and argues that political successions in the Soviet Union and China were shaped by the politics of personal prestige, historical antagonisms, backhanded political maneuvering, and violence.

About the author

Joseph Torigian is an assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Torigian
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780300254235
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25423-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; China, Russia, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / China, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, General and world history, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era