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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.29 — 110,579 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,526,015 ratings — published 1948
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.89 — 17,893 ratings — published 2020
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,002 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,604,795 ratings — published 1945
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,935 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,077 ratings — published 2018
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,868,587 ratings — published 1953
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,092,733 ratings — published 1932
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,877 ratings — published 2018
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.18 — 17,274 ratings — published 2024
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,393 ratings — published 2020
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,882 ratings — published 2014
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.23 — 149,144 ratings — published 1960
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,452,584 ratings — published 1985
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,673 ratings — published 2020
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,356 ratings — published 2018
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,311 ratings — published 1955
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,274 ratings — published 1941
The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,516 ratings — published 2004
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.20 — 34,089 ratings — published 1963
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,989 ratings — published 2010
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,459 ratings — published 2017
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,079 ratings — published 1940
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.26 — 326,076 ratings — published 1990
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,029 ratings — published 2024
On Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,733 ratings — published 2025
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,246 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,372,520 ratings — published 1956
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,071 ratings — published 2017
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,474 ratings — published 2018
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,259 ratings — published 2011
Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.97 — 121 ratings — published 2009
It Can't Happen Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,935 ratings — published 1935
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,994 ratings — published 1953
The Politics of Authoritarian Rule (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.18 — 102 ratings — published 2012
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.88 — 113,831 ratings — published 1924
How Propaganda Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.59 — 852 ratings — published 2015
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.11 — 548,918 ratings — published 1984
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,916 ratings — published 2003
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.69 — 142,707 ratings — published 1994
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.25 — 153 ratings — published 2010
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,270 ratings — published 2019
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,974 ratings — published 1998
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,666 ratings — published 2003
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,497 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,030 ratings — published 1973
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,447 ratings — published 2015
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 4.35 — 43,365 ratings — published 2000
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as authoritarianism)
avg rating 3.82 — 69,749 ratings — published 2004
“[A] history of disintegration can be a guide to repair. Erosion reveals what resists, what can be reinforced, what can be reconstructed, and what must be reconceived.”
― The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
― The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
“When a state treats its citizens as an existential threat then that state ceases to be a democracy.”
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