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Elite Purges in Marxist-Leninist Regimes

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Is Shijan Ping a Powerful Leader?

Political scientists use these diconomists, variables, like strong or weak, to compare and contrast leaders. But i think it's more meaningful to talk about how power functions in different ways at different times than to use labels like strong orweak. Shijan ping is obviously an extraordinarily powerful leader, but he doesn't have that revolutionary cache that dung did. And if continuities with the pastare strong, what does that say about shichin? Well, if she kouherushe would only be defeated with a lot of unpopular policies,. Won't get removed automatically if he makes mistakes or introduces unpopular policies.

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