Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion

“Do read Torigian’s Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion. . . . It’s great.”—Stuart Lau, Politico

“[Torigian’s] ambitious first book re-examines critical junctures in Soviet and Chinese history, putting up a revisionist case against the consensus view of Deng Xiaoping and Nikita Khrushchev as reformers.”—John Delury, Global Asia

“[S]pecialists will find much to ponder in this careful, detailed examination of a critical question in the functioning of authoritarian regimes.”—Mary Elise Sarotte, Engelsberg Ideas

“Joseph Torigian's stellar research and personal interviews have produced a brilliant, meticulous study.  It fundamentally undermines what political scientists have presumed to be the way Chinese Communist and Soviet politics operate.”— Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine
 

“Joseph Torigian combines history and political science in a remarkably acute and innovative study of leadership politics in the Soviet Union and China.  It will help us understand authoritarian regimes today.”—David Holloway, Stanford University