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Dictators Books
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Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.17 — 18,498 ratings — published 2024
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,077 ratings — published 2019
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,574 ratings — published 2020
I Must Betray You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.39 — 103,781 ratings — published 2022
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.29 — 114,301 ratings — published 2017
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.89 — 281,267 ratings — published 2007
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,408 ratings — published 2011
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,049 ratings — published 2004
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,803 ratings — published 2015
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,851 ratings — published 2017
Young Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,836 ratings — published 2007
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,351 ratings — published 2009
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,935 ratings — published 1998
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,079 ratings — published 2018
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,841 ratings — published 2014
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian Vision—Essential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.18 — 44,183 ratings — published 1925
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,438 ratings — published 2003
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,640 ratings — published 2000
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.23 — 150,939 ratings — published 1960
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,433 ratings — published 2014
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.35 — 44,187 ratings — published 2000
Before We Were Free (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,699 ratings — published 2002
Hitler (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,522 ratings — published 1998
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,012 ratings — published 2024
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.44 — 129,718 ratings — published 2022
Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.86 — 273 ratings — published 1962
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,282 ratings — published 2022
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,867 ratings — published 2019
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.86 — 237 ratings — published
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.28 — 63,293 ratings — published 2010
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,619,704 ratings — published 1948
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,203 ratings — published 2014
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,886 ratings — published 2019
The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,712 ratings — published 2004
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.24 — 721 ratings — published 1986
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,116 ratings — published 2002
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,116 ratings — published 2018
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,083 ratings — published 2010
It Can't Happen Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,684 ratings — published 1935
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,191 ratings — published 2020
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,514 ratings — published 1940
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,968 ratings — published 2004
Adolf Hitler (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,868 ratings — published 1958
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,717 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,509 ratings — published 1973
Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,711 ratings — published 1982
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,608 ratings — published 2018
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,708 ratings — published 2014
Look Who's Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.43 — 41,281 ratings — published 2012
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.43 — 103,739 ratings — published 2014
“I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient.”
― The Power of the Powerless
― The Power of the Powerless
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing, in a sense, that we would be willing to submit the direction of our societies to the collective wisdom of an imperfect and frequently disengaged public. How could we be so naïve? To that fair question, we must reply: how could anyone be so gullible as permanently to entrust power—an inherently corrupting force—to a single leader or party? When a dictator abuses his authority, there is no legal way to stop him. When a free society falters, we still have the ability--through open debate and the selection of new leaders--to remedy those shortcomings. We still have time to pick a better egg. That is democracy's comparative advantage, and it should be recognized and preserved.”
― Fascism: A Warning
― Fascism: A Warning
