Minxin Pei is the author of several books on Chinese politics, including China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay and China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy. He is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College.

• Introduction Regime Transition in Communist States Explaining the Tocqueville Paradox China's Capitalist Revolution The Private Sector under Perestroika The Self-Liberalization of China's Mass Media The Liberal Takeover of the Soviet Mass Media under Glasnost Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

This is an immensely exciting, sustained analytical effort ...this book is quite likely to become a classic in its field.