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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,481,119 ratings — published 1949
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,741 ratings — published 2020
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,567,743 ratings — published 1945
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,224 ratings — published 2017
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.18 — 102,041 ratings — published 2009
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,623 ratings — published 2020
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 84,753 ratings — published 2023
The Doctrine of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.10 — 1,385 ratings — published 1932
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,081,886 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,846,967 ratings — published 1953
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.84 — 383,658 ratings — published 1532
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,818 ratings — published 2010
The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,395 ratings — published 2004
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,859 ratings — published 1940
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,157 ratings — published 1941
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,353 ratings — published 2017
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,655 ratings — published 1963
Imperium: Philosophy of History & Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.06 — 445 ratings — published 1948
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.76 — 54 ratings — published 1993
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,105 ratings — published 2018
Runaway: A Dark Mafia Why Choose Romance (Savages of Ravens Hollow Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.38 — 48 ratings — published
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.13 — 154,714 ratings — published 2013
The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 63,055 ratings — published 2024
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,107 ratings — published 2025
Breaking Stalin's Nose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,081 ratings — published 2011
Der Nazi-Sozi: Fragen und Antworten fuer den Nationalsozialisten (Nook)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.93 — 72 ratings — published 1931
Claimed for Their Pleasure (Coveted by the Barbarian #2)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,224 ratings — published 2021
The Far Side of Evil (Elana, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 570 ratings — published 1971
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,248 ratings — published 1887
The Praise Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,617 ratings — published 1978
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 812,030 ratings — published 2008
Unnatural (The Wrong Alpha, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,539 ratings — published 2020
The Winter Guest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,414 ratings — published 2022
The Ophelia Network (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.45 — 625 ratings — published 2022
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,661 ratings — published 2020
Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,801 ratings — published 2018
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 16,644 ratings — published 2024
When the Emperor Was Divine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.81 — 30,747 ratings — published 2002
The Enigma Affair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,006 ratings — published 2022
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.48 — 12,397 ratings — published 2021
Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 63 ratings — published 2022
巨變第二天：新興民主的得失與選擇 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,537 ratings — published 2022
How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.89 — 53 ratings — published 2018
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,002 ratings — published 2013
Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.56 — 32 ratings — published 2006
Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.78 — 739 ratings — published
The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.77 — 104 ratings — published
Dictators at War and Peace (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 2014
“This is a deep and uncomfortable paradox, which will not have escaped you; we can only defend democracy by being undemocratic. Every secret service knows this paradox.”
― La Belle Sauvage
― La Belle Sauvage
“The people in Democracies leave everything in the hands of Governments and do nothing about turmoil within that erodes the basic fabric of Democracy, whereas the Governments in the other forms of Governance leave nothing in the hands of their people to seek Democracy. Ironic though.”
― The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
― The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
