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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

by Frank Dikötter

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao’s Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. In the twentieth century, as new te

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication date

Dec 03, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9781635573794