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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author)
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On Fascism
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Behold the Wanderer: A Novel against Modernity
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Mathijs Koenraadt (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Road to Serfdom
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Democracy: The God That Failed
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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
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The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)
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The Rise and Fall of Communism
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea
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Byung-Kook Kim (Editor)
4.11 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
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Nina Willner (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 12,953 ratings
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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Prophets of Order: The Rise of the New Class, Technocracy and Socialism in America
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Revival of the West: Securing a Future for European People
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Mathijs Koenraadt (Goodreads Author)
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Hot History
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The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
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4.54 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Prince
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Black Book of Communism
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3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
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4.46 avg rating — 243 ratings
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The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 12,143 ratings
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Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large
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4.23 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
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Edward L. Glaeser (Editor)
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
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4.06 avg rating — 5,559 ratings
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Another View of Stalin
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4.01 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
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Alexander Watson (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 987 ratings
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Fascism: A Warning
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4.25 avg rating — 21,010 ratings
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Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism
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4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
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4.16 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900
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3.83 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
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3.86 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
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4.18 avg rating — 1,062 ratings
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Autocracy, Inc.
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4.19 avg rating — 15,122 ratings
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
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3.84 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
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4.18 avg rating — 976 ratings
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
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4.08 avg rating — 7,230 ratings
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Liberalism: A Counter-History
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4.39 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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Leftism: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse
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4.24 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
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3.89 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
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4.39 avg rating — 9,184 ratings
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On Authority
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3.83 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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Kaiser Wilhelm Ii: A Concise Life
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3.87 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Emergency Retold
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4.08 avg rating — 424 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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4.14 avg rating — 7,838 ratings
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The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
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4.12 avg rating — 2,093 ratings
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For Reasons of State: Delhi Under Emergency
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3.40 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Bourgeois Democracy and Fascism
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Napoleon: A Life
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4.24 avg rating — 28,061 ratings
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The Emergency: A Personal History
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Marxism vs. Liberalism: An Interview
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4.29 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
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4.04 avg rating — 920 ratings
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The RSS: A Menace To India
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3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?
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4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Discourses
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4.08 avg rating — 9,703 ratings
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The Mass Psychology of Fascism
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4.03 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism
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4.51 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary
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Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Understanding Fascism: Writings on Caste, Class and the State
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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
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4.28 avg rating — 337,531 ratings
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H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
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Kunal Purohit (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
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4.27 avg rating — 4,955 ratings
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The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
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4.51 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
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4.21 avg rating — 140 ratings
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China's Political System
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Sebastian Heilmann (Editor)
3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Why Liberalism Failed
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
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Orbán: Europe's New Strongman
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