Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship

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

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We live in a time where old orders are collapsing: from the postcolonial nation states of the Middle East, to the EU and the American election.

Instant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bound BestsellerBestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema-gogue possible.

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Die Französische Revolution eine Revolution des Volkes?

Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written.

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writersWritten midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely.

What happens when a democratically elected leader evolves into an authoritarian ruler, limiting press freedom, civil liberties, and religious and ethnic tolerance?

Sandstorm is the best kind of reportage: humane, historically-informed and full of details that only a writer close to the action could have noticed.

This political and military history of Paraguay chronicles the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner from 1954 to the coup that overthrew him in 1989.

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This ebook is the perfect introduction to politics and political thought throughout history.

El debate sobre el totalitarismo fue el de mayor envergadura ético-política del siglo XX.

"Los hechos acaecidos en Chile el día 11 de septiembre de 1973 continúan siendo objeto de reflexión, de investigación, de disputa y también de interrogación para una vasta opinión pública, dentro como fuera de Chile.

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Originally published in 1936, this is an examination of the rise and rule of fascism in Italy.

Liberty is not, as the German precursors of Nazism asserted, a negative ideal.

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Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'.

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

The Crisis of the Dictatorships is Nicos Poulantzas's fourth book.

We have taken on the challenge of asking AI (an artificial intelligence machine) uncomfortable questions and seeking answers that are both honest and insightful.

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The first volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich.

V clav Havel s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite!