Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century

by Seva Gunitsky

Book Overview

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat--not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.

Seva Gunitsky argues that waves of regime change are driven by the aftermath of cataclysmic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069117234X
• ISBN13: 9780691172347
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"