How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

by Frank Dikötter

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

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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1635573793

ISBN13:9781635573794

Release Date:December 2019

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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