Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship

Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book AwardThe forgotten history of American terrorists who, in the name of God, conspired to overthrow the government and formed an alliance with Hitler.

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The #1 NYT BESTSELLERA personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.

The history of Oliver Cromwell's short-lived Commonwealth is a tale of regicide, dictatorship, internal conflict and war in seventeenth-century Britain.

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.

In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaor .

In October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaor .

Annähernd dreißig aktive und ehemalige STUDENTINNEN UND STUDENTEN DER UNIVERSITÄT INNSBRUCK wurden in der NS-ZEIT vom Regime verfolgt, viele ermordet.

In diesem Band aus der Reihe 'Gab es eine Alternative?

Provides an original analysis of the routine and spectacular forms of violence deployed by the Asad regime in Syria over the last four decades.

Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes?

In February 2021 the Canadian government published a considerably expanded list of domestic terrorist entities.

GOD CHOSE TRUMP as the president of the U.

The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime.

Whats it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator?

Dissonant Lives is not a standard 'history of Germany' in the twentieth century, or even of the German dictatorships.

Demokratie hat in Deutschland schon einmal den Weg in die Diktatur geebnet.

Despite recent attempts at 'negotiation', the attitudes of both Kim Jong-un's regime and the West seem unchanged.

Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.

No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis.

Explains the failure of democratization efforts in Southeast Asia, and why have autocracies proved so resistant to democratic opening?

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.

In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region.

Examines how authoritarian regimes employ labour emigration in order to remain in power, both in Egypt and beyond.

Populist Authoritarianism focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, which governs the world's largest population in a single-party authoritarian state.

In 1980, the newly independent and democratic Zimbabwe was a beacon of hope in a troubled region.

Presents a new theory of the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political orders, exploring the impact of late-modernity upon the survival of democratic and authoritarian regimes.

This book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens.

Presented at a time when fascism was a new and little-understood phenomenon, Zetkins work proposed a sweeping plan for the unity of all victims of capitalism in an ideological and political campaign against the fascist danger.

Confronting Evil links honest recognition and acknowledgement of twentieth century evils to our future as a moral human culture.

This sensitive yet incisive book addresses the medical treatment of children in the city of Strasbourg during Nazi occupation.

Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century who, despite having similar life-experiences, developed radically distinct political philosophies.

Considers the history of citizenship in Yemen and Tunisia to explain why democratic participation was undermined after the 2011 revolutionary wave.

For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality.

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West.

Wladimir Putin hat alle an der Nase herumgeführt.

In this riveting anatomy of the new face of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between modern dictators and those who challenge their rule.

Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time.

An examination of territorial changes between Czechoslovakia and Hungary and their effects on the local populations of the borderlands in the World War II eraThe movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most talked about yet little understood policy initiatives of the People's Republic of China.

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers.