Date:
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:10pm
"What is the contribution of revolutionary violence to democratic development? Our posing of the question this way came out of an earlier study in which we maintained that in several countries, the sociological impact of decades of violent Leninist rule ironically contributed to the emergence of democratic politics and made it more difficult for would-be authoritarians to stabilize their control once communism fell." See more