Although the repressive violence of governments against their own citizens has received some scholarly attention in the past decade, our understanding of this phenomenon is far from complete At least one central question remains: To what extent is government repression a function of a nation's political or economic development situation? одктз This volume addresses the question through case studies of repressive regimes in Second and Third World nations Of interest both for the study of repression and the analysis of development processes, it examines the links between development, dependence, and state repression in a variety of political and cultural settings.  Редактор:ISBN 031325298X.