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Kershaw, Ian.
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Heads of state -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Political leadership -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century.
Dictators -- History.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Kershaw, Ian.
Heads of state -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Political leadership -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Dictatorship -- History -- 20th century.
Dictators -- History.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Personality and power : builders and destroyers of modern
Europe
/ Ian Kershaw.
by
Kershaw, Ian.
Penguin Press, 2022.
Call #:
940.531 K417p
Subjects
Heads
of
state
--
Europe
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Political leadership
--
Europe
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Dictatorship
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Dictators
--
History
.
Europe
--
Politics and government
--
20th
century
ISBN:
9781594203459 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Revolutionary Leader, Founder of the Bolshevik
State
--
Benito Mussolini: Icon of Fascism
--
Adolf Hitler: Instigator of War and Genocide
--
Joseph Stalin: Terrorizer of His Own People, Hero of the 'Great Patriotic War'
--
Winston Churchill: Britain's War Hero
--
Charles de Gaulle: Restoring France's Grandeur
--
Konrad Adenauer: Building West Germany
--
Francisco Franco: Nationalist Crusader
--
Josip Broz Tito: Uncrowned King of Socialist Yugoslavia
--
Margaret Thatcher: National Regeneration
--
Mikhail Gorbachev: Breaker of the Soviet Union, Maker of a New
Europe
--
Helmut Kohl: Chancellor of Unity, Driving Force of European Integration.
Summary:
"From one of the leading historians of twentieth-century
Europe
and the author of the definitive biography of Hitler, the book is a masterful reckoning with how character conspired with opportunity to create the modern age's uniquely devastating despots
--
and how and why other countries found better paths. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were reshaped and wars were fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities somehow enabled them to do whatever they wished, regardless of the consequences for others. Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether those operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders, and the times in which they lived, that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles
--
from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev and Thatcher to Kohl --Kershaw uses his exceptional skills as an iconic historian to explore how strikingly different figures wielded power."--From publisher.
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