Revolution and DictatorshipRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution, such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam, are 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 such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical