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Elite Purges in Marxist-Leninist Regimes

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The Normal Operations of Leadership Politics

In the more normal operations of leadership politics does feel like it's very, very fuzzy to the extent. It's not like there's a firm bed of clearly articulated rules by which everyone already follows and therefore deviation or violation of those rules is abnormal. The fact that a group of senior leaders came to a decision that they wanted to make a change of leadership, and kruchef acceded to that without any resort to physical violence feels to me like a fairly orderly way to transition power in an authoritarian political system. But think that, at least with regard to kruste, krushe was dictatorial. He even threatened to shove a memo up someone's nose. And one of

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