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Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.20 — 13,791 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 4.20 — 4,778 ratings — published 2019
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,945 ratings — published 2020
I Must Betray You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.40 — 94,295 ratings — published 2022
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,701 ratings — published 2017
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.89 — 276,383 ratings — published 2007
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,993 ratings — published 2011
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,032 ratings — published 2004
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,705 ratings — published 2015
Mein Kampf (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.17 — 43,364 ratings — published
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.27 — 94,253 ratings — published 2017
Young Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,622 ratings — published 2007
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,492 ratings — published 2009
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,798 ratings — published 2018
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,824 ratings — published 2003
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,569 ratings — published 2000
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,966 ratings — published 1973
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 145,926 ratings — published 1960
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,337 ratings — published 2014
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,784 ratings — published 1998
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.35 — 41,568 ratings — published 2000
Before We Were Free (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,332 ratings — published 2002
Salazar: Uma Biografia Política (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.19 — 155 ratings — published 2009
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.08 — 844 ratings — published 2024
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,252 ratings — published 2022
Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.85 — 253 ratings — published 1962
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,177 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 — 2,691 ratings — published 2019
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.87 — 214 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 — 61,427 ratings — published 2000
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,306,441 ratings — published 1949
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 — 3,078 ratings — published 2014
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,628 ratings — published
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,656 ratings — published 2019
The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,072 ratings — published 2004
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 689 ratings — published 1986
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,071 ratings — published 2002
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,474 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 — 2,080 ratings — published 2010
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,134 ratings — published 2020
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,196 ratings — published 1940
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.06 — 82,065 ratings — published 2004
Adolf Hitler (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,757 ratings — published 1958
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,621 ratings — published 2015
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,771 ratings — published 2018
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,114 ratings — published 2015
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,455 ratings — published 2014
Look Who's Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.43 — 40,488 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 — 99,965 ratings — published 2014
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,259 ratings — published 1986
“There is no leader who has remained in power for too long and has not morally decayed, who has not become involved in violence against opponents, who has not become a demon, who has not become a fox, who has not become excessively rich, who has not become excessively autocratic, who has not become extraordinarily arrogant and spoiled, who has not become hostile to freedom, who has won the love of an entire nation to the extent of wandering the streets without bodyguards around him.”
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“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
