Modern tyrants the power and prevalence of evil in our age
Daniel Chirot (Author)
Offers a study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.
XVI, 496 s
9780691027777, 0691027773
1028367159
PrefaceAcknowledgments1On Modern Tyranny12Moderation Abandoned253In the Beginning Was the Word714Death, Lies, and Decay1215A Typological Map of Tyranny1676Imagined Egalitarian Hells: Maoism and the Khmer Rouge1757Little Stalins? Socialist Corporatism at the Service of the Nation and the Leader2318Little Hitlers? Elite Fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and Their Realization2679An Inadvertent Catastrophe: Burma's Confrontation with Colonialism, Modern Nationalism, and Ne Win30910Race aud Corruption on the Island of Hispaniola: Two Caribbean Nightmares34111Colonialism, Resentment, and Chaos: Two African Studies37312Some Propositions, Lessons, and Predictions about Tyranny403Notes429Bibliography457Index479
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Bibliografi: s. 457-477