Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age - Brossura

Chirot, Daniel

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ISBN 10: 0691027773 ISBN 13: 9780691027777

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 1996

Riassunto

Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely 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.

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Recensione:

"Chirot's insightful book looks squarely at radical evil ... and warns us of the array of new onslaughts against democratic values and governments that are to be expected from various quarters, most often in the name of some collective identity or self-styled expression of community." --Vladimir Tismaneanu, Journal of Democracy

"Chirot's classification scheme for understanding modern tyrannies makes this survey a valuable sourcebook on dictatorships.... A disquieting and ominous road map of the twentieth century's political horrors." --Publishers Weekly

"Chirot's approach is both useful and unusual, as it isn't driven by ideology.... His book should be of lasting value as a quick reference to many of the worst regimes of our century.... Chirot's conclusions ... [are] clearly stated and intelligent." --Peter A. Jay, The Washington Times

Contenuti:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	On Modern Tyranny	1
2	Moderation Abandoned	25
3	In the Beginning Was the Word	71
4	Death, Lies, and Decay	121
5	A Typological Map of Tyranny	167
6	Imagined Egalitarian Hells: Maoism and the Khmer Rouge	175
7	Little Stalins? Socialist Corporatism at the Service of the Nation and the Leader	231
8	Little Hitlers? Elite Fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and Their Realization	267
9	An Inadvertent Catastrophe: Burma's Confrontation with Colonialism, Modern Nationalism, and Ne Win	309
10	Race aud Corruption on the Island of Hispaniola: Two Caribbean Nightmares	341
11	Colonialism, Resentment, and Chaos: Two African Studies	373
12	Some Propositions, Lessons, and Predictions about Tyranny	403
	Notes	429
	Bibliography	457
	Index	479

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0691027773
• ISBN 13: 9780691027777
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 516