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How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffic ...Show more
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-76 by Frank Dikötter
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the c ...Show more
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