
Modern tyrants : the power and prevalence of evil in our age / Daniel Chirot
Chirot offers a study of modern tyrants, revealing the forces which allow them to come to power and predicting where they may arise in the future
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Autores principales: | Chirot, Daniel (Autor) |
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Formato: | Libro |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: | New York [u.a.] : The Free Press [u.a.], 1994 |
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On modern tyranny |
Moderation abandoned |
In the beginning was the word |
Death, lies, and decay |
A typological map of tyranny |
Imagined egalitarian hells : Maoism and the Khmer Rouge |
Little Stalins? : socalist corporatism at the service of the nation and the leader |
Little Hitlers? : elite fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and their realization |
An inadvertent catastrophe : Burma's confrontation with colonialism, modern nationalism, and Ne Win |
Race and corruption on the island of Hispaniola : two Caribbean nightmares |
Colonialism, resentment, and chaos : two African studies |
Some propositions, lessons, and predictions about tyranny. |