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

byFrank Dikötter

Focused on the Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century, How to Be a Dictator brings Frank Dikötter's historical account to a complex and consequential subject. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of history and political science. Attention to evidence keeps the discussion anchored while allowing disagreement, uncertainty, and unintended consequences to remain visible. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication date

Dec 03, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9781635573794