Is there a good discussion (by these authors or someone else) that you would recommend, about Tsarist Russia's suppression of the 1905 revolution (or revolutions, as there was no unified movement or event)?
That might be a good example to look at, since not only is it well documented, it has been written about from many angles and Left wing revolutionaries in particular are familiar with it because of their fascination with the Russian revolution that followed. Its lessons (real or imagined) may thus play a role in the decisions of authoritarians as well as revolutionaries. Even Islamic revolutionaries get some of their intellectual material from left wing revolutionaries and their writings, and may have ideas whose origins go back to that particular episode..
Just a thought.