02132nam a22003018a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002100224082002000245245013600265264005200401300005900453336002600512337002600538338003600564500007300600520102600673700004901699776003501748856004701783CR9781139565028UkCbUP20171022142801.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||120713s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139565028 (ebook)  z9781107035539 (hardback)  z9781107651135 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aHX45 b.W49 201300a320.53/209522300aWhy Communism Did Not Collapse :bUnderstanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe /cEdited by Martin K. Dimitrov. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (390 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThis volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in 1989–91, and the five regimes that survived the fall of the Berlin Wall: China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea and Cuba. The essays offer a theoretical argument that emphasizes the importance of institutional adaptations as a foundation of communist resilience. In particular, the contributors focus on four adaptations: of the economy, of ideology, of the mechanisms for inclusion of potential rivals, and of the institutions of vertical and horizontal accountability. The volume argues that when regimes are no longer able to implement adaptive change, contingent leadership choices and contagion dynamics make collapse more likely.1 aDimitrov, Martin K.,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978110703553940uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139565028