The Dictators

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141912243
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictators written by Richard Overy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history. Yet millions of Germans and Russians enthusiastically supported them and the values they stood for. In this first major study of the two dictatorships side-by-side Richard Overy sets out to answer the question: How was dictatorship possible? How did they function? What was the bond that tied dictator and people so powerfully together? He paints a remarkable and vivid account of the different ways in which Stalin and Hitler rose to power, and abused and dominated their people. It is a chilling analysis of powerful ideals corrupted by the vanity of ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Author : Elizabeth Wiskemann
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe of the Dictators, 1919-1945 written by Elizabeth Wiskemann and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Leontief Alpers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854167
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture written by Benjamin Leontief Alpers and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the la

Author : Daniel Kalder
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627793437
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Library written by Daniel Kalder and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown." —The Washington Post A darkly humorous tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the genre—Stalin, Mussolini, and Khomeini among them—produced theoretical works, spiritual manifestos, poetry, memoirs, and even the occasional romance novel and established a literary tradition of boundless tedium that continues to this day. How did the production of literature become central to the running of regimes? What do these books reveal about the dictatorial soul? And how can books and literacy, most often viewed as inherently positive, cause immense and lasting harm? Putting daunting research to revelatory use, Daniel Kalder asks and brilliantly answers these questions. Marshalled upon the beleaguered shelves of The Infernal Library are the books and commissioned works of the century’s most notorious figures. Their words led to the deaths of millions. Their conviction in the significance of their own thoughts brooked no argument. It is perhaps no wonder then, as Kalder argues, that many dictators began their careers as writers.

Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393651754
Total Pages : 1085 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia written by Richard Overy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of great importance; it surpasses all others in breadth and depth."--Commentary If the past century will be remembered for its tragic pairing of civilized achievement and organized destruction, at the heart of darkness may be found Hitler, Stalin, and the systems of domination they forged. Their lethal regimes murdered millions and fought a massive, deadly war. Yet their dictatorships took shape within formal constitutional structures and drew the support of the German and Russian people. In the first major historical work to analyze the two dictatorships together in depth, Richard Overy gives us an absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far-flung empires of camps and prisons. The Nazi extermination camps and the vast Soviet Gulag represent the two dictatorships in their most inhuman form. Overy shows us the human and historical roots of these evils.

Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 161039044X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictator's Handbook written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.

Author : Jessica L. P. Weeks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455235
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictators at War and Peace written by Jessica L. P. Weeks and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new ground in our understanding of the international behavior of dictators. Jessica L. P. Weeks explains why certain kinds of regimes are less likely to resort to war than others, why some are more likely to win the wars they start, and why some authoritarian leaders face domestic punishment for foreign policy failures whereas others can weather all but the most serious military defeat. Using novel cross-national data, Weeks looks at various nondemocratic regimes, including those of Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin; the Argentine junta at the time of the Falklands War, the military government in Japan before and during World War II, and the North Vietnamese communist regime. She finds that the differences in the conflict behavior of distinct kinds of autocracies are as great as those between democracies and dictatorships. Indeed, some types of autocracies are no more belligerent or reckless than democracies, casting doubt on the common view that democracies are more selective about war than autocracies.

Author : Alaa Al Aswany
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912208601
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictatorship Syndrome written by Alaa Al Aswany and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, ignorance, and injustice. What is the nature of dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And how do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern? In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809464838
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow of the Dictators written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of dictators during the modern 20th century.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1639730680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Dictator written by Frank Dikötter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.