The Architecture of Autocracy examines how modern authoritarian systems are constructed not through dramatic ruptures, but through incremental design. Drawing on the post-Soviet experience, particularly the divergence between Russia and Ukraine, author analyzes the structural mechanisms that sustain political permanence: the manipulation of time, control of interpretation, elite entanglement through corruption, engineered legality, and the narrowing of institutional corridors...
The Architecture of Autocracy examines how modern authoritarian systems are constructed not through dramatic ruptures, but through incremental design. Drawing on the post-Soviet experience, particularly the divergence between Russia and Ukraine, author analyzes the structural mechanisms that sustain political permanence: the manipulation of time, control of interpretation, elite entanglement through corruption, engineered legality, and the narrowing of institutional corridors...