
Elite Purges in Marxist-Leninist Regimes
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Kruchev's Defection Wasn't Inevitable
Krushev's defeat wasn't necessarily inevitable, right? So bresne very clearly believed that it was still possible, even after the co began, would be able to come out a victorious. Ultimately, krushev decided not to contest which raises lots of interesting questions as to why people always talk about leaders and authoritarian regimes as maximising power. But i think the best hypothesis, based on the evidence, is thatkrushev didn't see a lot of policy differences with these people who were trying to remove himand i think he also that he would have had to do a lot to turn things around that would not have been good for the regime.
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