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How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Mussolini, 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 Dikoetter 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 iron censorship, these dictators
ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population
at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat,
are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of
today's world leaders? This timely study, told with great narrative
verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself.
It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very
heart of tyranny.
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