Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age

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Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in...
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Overview

Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.
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Gilbert Taylor
Here is an episodic look at 13 of this century's despots, ranging from champions of murder down to the Duvaliers of Haiti. For the most part, the intellectual heavy lifting has already been achieved in such critiques as "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt, "Modern Times" by Paul Johnson, and "Hitler and Stalin" by Alan Bullock . Yet there remains the need for a propagator of their analyses, a role that college professor Chirot adopts for the newcomer to the subject. His work requires a certain determination to read, for it is not light fare, it is rather mechanical rhetorically, and there are some gruesome passages. Moreover, Chirot presents the pessimistic argument that such tyrants as Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot are liable to recur in the post-Cold War situation. To hold the mirror to the future, he gives a capsule history of the country in question, the fanaticism of the dictator's belief in his unique gnosis, and the body count it took to effect it. Libraries where the classics on tyranny circulate might see this title join the stream.
Journal of Democracy
Chirot's insightful book looks squarely at radical evil ... and warns us of the array of new onslaughts against democratic values and governments that are to be expected from various quarters, most often in the name of some collective identity or self-styled expression of community.
— Vladimir Tismaneanu
The Washington Times
Chirot's approach is both useful and unusual, as it isn't driven by ideology.... His book should be of lasting value as a quick reference to many of the worst regimes of our century.... Chirot's conclusions ... [are] clearly stated and intelligent.
— Peter A. Jay
Journal of Democracy - Vladimir Tismaneanu
Chirot's insightful book looks squarely at radical evil ... and warns us of the array of new onslaughts against democratic values and governments that are to be expected from various quarters, most often in the name of some collective identity or self-styled expression of community.
The Washington Times - Peter A. Jay
Chirot's approach is both useful and unusual, as it isn't driven by ideology.... His book should be of lasting value as a quick reference to many of the worst regimes of our century.... Chirot's conclusions ... [are] clearly stated and intelligent.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780029054772
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/1994
  • Pages: 496
  • Product dimensions: 6.62 (w) x 9.56 (h) x 1.96 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 On Modern Tyranny 1
2 Moderation Abandoned 25
3 In the Beginning Was the Word 71
4 Death, Lies, and Decay 121
5 A Typological Map of Tyranny 167
6 Imagined Egalitarian Hells: Maoism and the Khmer Rouge 175
7 Little Stalins? Socialist Corporatism at the Service of the Nation and the Leader 231
8 Little Hitlers? Elite Fantasies in Argentina and Iraq, and Their Realization 267
9 An Inadvertent Catastrophe: Burma's Confrontation with Colonialism, Modern Nationalism, and Ne Win 309
10 Race aud Corruption on the Island of Hispaniola: Two Caribbean Nightmares 341
11 Colonialism, Resentment, and Chaos: Two African Studies 373
12 Some Propositions, Lessons, and Predictions about Tyranny 403
Notes 429
Bibliography 457
Index 479
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