Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Biography & Autobiography Memoirs African American & Black Social Science Discrimination “A wonderful and sweet book

“A wonderful and sweet book

Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover

Does this strange world share a connection with her own world back home

And how do you keep a family together when you’re oceans apart

Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism Biography & Autobiography Memoirs African American & Black Social Science Discrimination “A wonderful and sweet bookWhy the worlds most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution 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.