Reddit mentions of The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (Volume 4) (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series)

When the Soviet Union collapsed and so did its Communist Insurgent aiding apparatus. The US supported Democratic transitions in Bolivia, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Guatemala, Suriname, El Salvador, Panama, Chile and Nicaragua.

I recommend these books

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1994-11-01/americas-mission-united-states-and-worldwide-struggle-democracy

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s360

> Reagan and Bush I supported democratic transitions in Bolivia, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Guatemala, Suriname, El Salvador, Panama, Chile and Nicaragua. U.S. support had been “critical to democratization in the
Dominican Republic, Grenada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and the Philippines” and was “a contributing factor to democratization in Portugal, Chile, Poland, Korea, Bolivia, and Taiwan

https://www.amazon.com/Third-Wave-Democratization-Rothbaum-Distinguished/dp/0806125160

You might like reading The Third Wave by Samuel P Huntington. It's about how movement toward democracy hasn't been a steady arc, but has surged and receded on a global scale throughout history. If his thesis is accurate, that third wave of democracy is likely receding right now.

Edit: This lecture about the history and methods of Russian/Soviet subversion of the US might interest you too. What's going on now is just an extension of Soviet Cold War tactics, which makes sense when you consider that Putin is former KGB. Yuri was definitely a propaganda tool for the US, so keep that in mind when listening to him, but the things he talks about closely mirror what we see in modern society.

This book: http://www.amazon.com/Contentious-Politics-Charles-Tilly/dp/0199946094 is kind of the gold standard in terms of polisci research. This is another one: http://www.amazon.com/Social-Movements-1768-2012-Charles-Tilly/dp/161205238X/ref=la_B000APQCP2_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410999473&sr=1-2

If you have access to any university login, you can read a lot of articles by these guys who have lots of stuff on this. Tarrow created a lot of theoretical foundation for studying revolution -- why people decide to revolt, why governments choose to repress or allow revolution, etc.

This book: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/competitive-authoritarianism-hybrid-regimes-after-cold-war will have the most modern case studies in revolution and revolt. It covers areas like Latin America post-dictatorship, former Soviet states after the cold war ended (Ukraine and Russia included), and lots of places in Southeast Asia. It's good stuff and slightly less academic than the above.

These are two more classics: http://www.amazon.com/Problems-Democratic-Transition-Consolidation-Post-Communist/dp/0801851580 and http://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Wave-Democratization-Distinguished/dp/0806125160/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0AXQX8XHDWS427E6JY1A

If there's a geographic area you're interested in particular I probably know quite a bit more!

edit: I think the most accessible and probably useful book here is the Levitsky & Way book. They have an easy theoretical model, and most of the book is case studies.