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Dikötter, Frank.
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Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century.
Dictators -- History.
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Dikötter, Frank.
Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century.
Dictators -- History.
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How to be a dictator : the
cult
of
personality
in the
twentieth
century
/ Frank Dikötter.
by
Dikötter, Frank.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Call #:
321.9 D575h
Subjects
Dictatorship -- History -- 20th
century
.
Dictators -- History.
ISBN:
9781635573794 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Cult
of
personality
in the
twentieth
century
Description:
xvi, 274 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-262) and index.
Contents:
Mussolini -- Hitler -- Stalin -- Mao Zedong -- Kim Il-sung -- Duvalier -- Ceauşescu -- Mengistu.
Summary:
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 technologies allowed leaders to place their image and voice directly into their citizens' homes, a new phenomenon appeared where dictators exploited the
cult
of
personality
to achieve the illusion of popular approval without ever having to resort to elections. In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter examines the cults and propaganda surrounding twentieth-century dictators, from Hitler and Stalin to Mao Zedong and Kim Il Sung. These men were the founders of modern dictatorships, and they learned from each other and from history to build their regimes and maintain their public images. Their dictatorships, in turn, have influenced leaders in the twenty-first
century
, including Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Using a breadth of archival research and his characteristic in-depth analysis, Dikötter offers a portrait of dictatorship, a guide to the
cult
of
personality
, and a map for exposing the lies dictators tell to build and maintain their regimes.
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