Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback): No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945 1991 (Paperback)

Jeff Goodwin; Peter Lange; Robert H Bates
Cambridge University Press
9780521629485
0-521-62948-9

No Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation for the emergence of popular revolutionary movements, and the occurrence of actual revolutions, during the Cold War era. This sweeping study ranges from.

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Southeast Asia in the 1940s and 1950s to Central America in the 1970s and 1980s and Eastern Europe in 1989. Goodwin demonstrates how the actions of specific types of authoritarian regimes unwittingly channeled popular resistance into radical and often violent directions. By comparing the historical trajectories of more than a dozen countries, Goodwin also shows how revolutionaries were able to create opportunities for seizing state power.