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The depressing durability of dictatorships

Authoritarian regimes that have emerged out of violent social revolutions have survived on average three times as long as their non-revolutionary counterparts

Fidel Castro in January 1994 assures participants at a Solidarity with Cuba meeting that the country would never return to capitalism. [Getty Images] 
issue 07 January 2023
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  • Revolution & Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism

    Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way

    Princeton, pp. 604, £30

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David Patrikarakos is the author of 'War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century' and 'Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State'

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