... institutions are the most appropriate for their respective societies in order to get around this, however. This would mean that in authoritarian or one-party regimes in countries with ethnic tensions or histories of tribal rivalry3 - where the regime argues that strong government is necessary to maintain the ... the end goal or the ideal which is being pursued. Such was the rationale of Lenin's Bolshevik (and then Communist) Party during the 1917 Russian revolution, where the party sought legitimacy as defenders of the revolution and then subsequently leading the people towards their go...

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