Revolution and DictatorshipRevolution 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. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that