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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| Main Authors: | Chirot, Daniel (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York [u.a.] : The Free Press [u.a.], 1994 |
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| Table of Contents |
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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. |
