This chapter concludes that the legitimation programs used across both the Soviet and post-Soviet periods comprised essentially the same elements, and that this was a function of the nature of authoritarian regimes. This means that there were not different regime strategies, although the way some of them were played out reflected institutional differences between the regimes. The chapter also suggests that an optimum strategy is one that involved broad reliance across the range of strategies, but that contrary to much of the authoritarianism literature, this did not necessarily have to include threat.