Edward Goldring, "Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive" (Cornell UP, 2026)

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Aug 24, 202639:48Science & Medicine

Purges: How Dictators Fight to Survive (Cornell University Press, 2026) by Dr. Edward Goldring delves into one of the key tactics that autocrats deploy to maintain power: the removal of individuals from within the regime...

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