Modern tyrants : the power and prevalence of evil in our age /
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| Author / Creator: | Chirot, Daniel. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Free Press, c1994. |
| Description: | xiv, 496 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1513282 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. On Modern Tyranny
- 2. Moderation Abandoned
- 3. In the Beginning Was the Word
- 4. Death, Lies, and Decay
- 5. A Typological Map of Tyranny
- 6. Imagined Egalitarian Hells: Maoism and the Khmer Rouge
- 7. Little Stalins? Socialist Corporatism at the Service of the Nation and the Leader
- 8. Little Hitlers? Elite Fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and Their Realization
- 9. An Inadvertent Catastrophe: Burma's Confrontation with Colonialism, Modern Nationalism, and Ne Win
- 10. Race aud Corruption on the Island of Hispaniola: Two Caribbean Nightmares
- 11. Colonialism, Resentment, and Chaos: Two African Studies
- 12. Some Propositions, Lessons, and Predictions about Tyranny.