This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens' lives.

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exerci

This original analysis of the workings of the Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin illuminates the ways in which terror and repression in the Sov

How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus un