Modern tyrants : the power and prevalence of evil in our age / Daniel Chirot.
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TextReference number:ocm28425503Publication details: New York : Toronto : New York : Free Press ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994. Description: xiv, 496 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 002905477X :Subject(s): Dictators -- History -- 20th century | Despotism -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 321.9 LOC classification: JC495 | .C47 1994| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| 321.8 M52N Notes on democracy / | 321.8 Z6N National communism and popular revolt in Eastern Europe : | 321.82 H15M The moral foundation of democracy. | 321.9 C44M Modern tyrants : | 321.9 UN3T The totalitarian party : | 321.908 AU8A Authoritarian politics in modern society; | 321 W28H Handbook of political "isms." |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-477) and index.
1. On Modern Tyranny -- 2. Moderation Abandoned -- 3. In the Beginning Was the Word -- 4. Death, Lies, and Decay -- 5. A Typological Map of Tyranny -- 6. Imagined Egalitarian Hells: Maoism and the Khmer Rouge -- 7. Little Stalins? Socialist Corporatism at the Service of the Nation and the Leader -- 8. Little Hitlers? Elite Fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and Their Realization -- 9. An Inadvertent Catastrophe: Burma's Confrontation with Colonialism, Modern Nationalism, and Ne Win -- 10. Race aud Corruption on the Island of Hispaniola: Two Caribbean Nightmares -- 11. Colonialism, Resentment, and Chaos: Two African Studies -- 12. Some Propositions, Lessons, and Predictions about Tyranny.
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