From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely and compelling exploration of the cult of personality that surrounded eight twentieth century dictatorsMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.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. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dik?tter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through

1. How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of
Personality in the Twentieth Century
Author : Frank Dik?tter

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From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning author of Mao's
Great Famine, a timely and compelling exploration of the
cult of personality that surrounded eight twentieth century
dictatorsMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung,
Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.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. A tyrant who can compel his own
people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the
modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of
popular support. Throughout the twentieth century,
hundreds of millions of people were condemned to
enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were
herded down the road to serfdom.In How to Be a Dictator,
Frank Dik?tter returns to eight of the most chillingly
effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From
carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate
cultivation of a shroud of mystery through

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Author : Frank Dikötter
Pages : 304 pages
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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ISBN-10 : 1635573793
ISBN-13 : 9781635573794

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