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From dictatorship to democracy:

a conceptual framework for liberation
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Albert Einstein Institution, 2003 - Political Science - 93 pages

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Sharp's essay on how non-violent political defiance can help people overthrow dictators has been translated into many languages and distributed around the world by those wishing to live under fair and ...

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I confess I hadn't heard of Gene Sharp until I heard this book had been a well thumbed text by rebels during the Arab Spring of 2011. First released in the early 1990s this small book is a blueprint ...

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TitleFrom dictatorship to democracy: a conceptual framework for liberation
AuthorsGene Sharp, Albert Einstein Institution (Cambridge, Mass.)
Edition4
PublisherAlbert Einstein Institution, 2003
Original fromNorthwestern University
Digitized29 Jul 2011
ISBN1880813092, 9781880813096
Length93 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Civil disobedience
Democracy
Dictatorship
Nonviolence
Opposition (Political science)
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Revolutions
Totalitarianism
  
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