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Diktatorn : från Caesar till Putin
AvDick Harrison
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
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Sett i ett längre historiskt perspektiv framstår diktaturen inte som ett avvikande inslag, snarare som ett väl beprövat styrelsesätt. Föreställningen om att vår tid skulle vara immun mot auktoritära impulser har gång på gång visat sig illusorisk. Även i dagens västvärld vimlar det av politiker som obekymrat flörtar med härskartekniker vi trodde tillhörde det förgångna.
Historieprofessorn Dick Harrison granskar här hur envälden genom seklerna kunnat rättfärdigas, accepteras och stundtals hyllas. Vilka strukturer och vilken samhällelig jordmån har möjliggjort deras framväxt? Finns en röd tråd från Caesars förödande krigståg via Robespierres blodbestänkta skräckvälde till Stalins »stora terror«?
Genom gestalter som Henrik VIII, Karl IX, Cromwell, Napoleon, Mussolini och Hitler visar Harrison hur autokratiska mönster ständigt återkommer. I Diktatorn ger han oss ett historiskt panorama som gör det möjligt att förstå även de ledare som i dag försöker forma världen efter sin egen vilja – och som därmed påminner oss om att historien aldrig upphör att tala till samtiden.

"Författaren behärskar konsten att göra det svåra begripligt, vilket kräver stor analytisk precision. Tonen är saklig och lättillgänglig. (...) Genom skräckinjagande gestalter som Caesar, Napoleon, Mussolini, Hitler och Stalin blir parallellerna till vår samtid tydliga. (...) Boken är lärorik och imponerande i sin omfattning." BTJ
"Det är värdefullt med någon som skriver sakligt och kunnigt om historien och samtidigt talar klarspråk om det som borde vara självklart för alla - att diktatur är en dålig idé både i öst och i väst och att en parlamentarisk demokrati med rättsstat, yttrandefrihet och respekt för andras åsikter är att föredra. Som alla viktiga historiska studier väcker boken tankar om samtiden." Svenska Dagbladet
"...en lättillgänglig och resonerande snabbkurs i ett så brännande ämne av en påläst expert. (...) Dick Harrison påminner oss förtjänstfullt om att de blodiga spåren efter män med alltför stor makt förskräcker." Dagens Nyheter
"En väl utförd historisk undersökning. Det är uppenbart att Harrison kan sitt material." Bokrevyn #10
"Michael Tapper: Diktatorn: Från Caesar till Putin är en exposé över tyranner genom historien och ett brännande aktuellt debattinlägg till demokratins försvar. ( ) Med journalistiskt slipat språkbruk och driv i berättandet gör spränglärde professor Dick Harrison boken lättläst, spännande och underhållande." Sydsvenskan
Autokrati AB : diktatorerna som vill styra världen
AvAnne Applebaum
Storpocket, Svenska, 2025
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
147 kr
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Enligt 2024 års demokratirapport från Göteborgs Universitet lever 71% av jordens befolkning i icke-demokratier. För tio år sedan var den siffran 48%.
Den historiska bilden av en autokrati stämmer dåligt överens med vår tid. Numera styrs autokratier av professionella propagandister och sofistikerade, globala nätverk. Till skillnad från militära och politiska allianser kan de här nätverken snabbt anpassa sina relationer så att de obehindrat kan röra sig över ideologiska, geografiska och kulturella gränser. De har alla ett övergripande mål; att göra motstånd mot det demokratiska systemet och på det sättet underminera våra demokratiska värderingar.
Kampen mot denna samhällssyn - som den demokratiska världen oavsiktligt bidragit till att befästa - är ämnet för denna bok.
Gulag Archipelago
(Abridged edition)
AvAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(4)
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Solzhenitsyn spent eleven years in labour camps and in exile.This book is his masterwork, based on his own experiences as well as the testimony of some 200 survivors. A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, it chronicles the story of those who dared to oppose Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the request of the author.'Helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph'Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece...helped create the world we live in today' Anne ApplebaumWITH AN AFTERWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSONTHE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III
Autokrati AB : diktatorerna som vill styra världen
AvAnne Applebaum
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(41)
309 kr
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Enligt 2024 års demokratirapport från Göteborgs Universitet lever 71% av jordens befolkning i icke-demokratier. För tio år sedan var den siffran 48%.
Den historiska bilden av en autokrati stämmer dåligt överens med vår tid. Numera styrs autokratier av professionella propagandister och sofistikerade, globala nätverk. Till skillnad från militära och politiska allianser kan de här nätverken snabbt anpassa sina relationer så att de obehindrat kan röra sig över ideologiska, geografiska och kulturella gränser. De har alla ett övergripande mål; att göra motstånd mot det demokratiska systemet och på det sättet underminera våra demokratiska värderingar.
Kampen mot denna samhällssyn - som den demokratiska världen oavsiktligt bidragit till att befästa - är ämnet för denna bok.
Autocracy, Inc
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
AvAnne Applebaum
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
145 kr
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**A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. The propagandists share resources—the troll farms that promote one dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another—and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.Unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, this group doesn’t operate like a bloc, but rather like an agglomeration of companies: Autocracy, Inc. Their relations are not based on values, but are rather transactional, which is why they operate so easily across ideological, geographical, and cultural lines. In truth, they are in full agreement about only one thing: Their dislike of us, the inhabitants of the democratic world, and their desire to see both our political systems and our values undermine.That shared understanding of the world—where it comes from, why it lasts, how it works, how the democratic world has unwittingly helped to consolidate it, and how we can help bring it down—is the subject of this book.
Londres 38 : en berättelse om Augusto Pinochet, Walther Rauff och rättvisan
AvPhilippe Sands
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
273 kr
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Den 16 oktober 1998 arresteras Augusto Pinochet oväntat i London. Åklagaren menar att den forne diktatorns immunitet inte gäller. Händelsen blir en världsnyhet. En av de advokater som kontaktas i ärendet är Philippe Sands, som ska komma att representera Human Rights Watch, efter att han avböjt att bistå Pinochet. Det är startskottet för en undersökning som senare leder Sands till adressen Londres 38 i Santiago. Efter Pinochets kupp 1973 var det en ökänd byggnad – den som fördes dit för förhör återvände sällan. Men spåren leder också till nazisten och krigsförbrytaren Walther Rauff, som flydde till Chile och senare erbjöd juntan sina tjänster. På något sätt hänger allt samman i denna personliga detektivberättelse om den vindlande vägen till en möjlig rättvisa för diktaturens offer.
Origins of Totalitarianism
AvHannah Arendt
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
162 kr
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'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, exploring how propaganda, scapegoats, terror and political isolation all aided the slide towards total domination. 'A non-fiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four' The New York Times'The political theorist who wrote about the Nazis and the 'banality of evil' has become a surprise bestseller' Guardian
How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us and Them
AvJason Stanley
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
170 kr
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Power of the Powerless
AvVáclav Havel
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
119 kr
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Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves?Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite it – would prove the guiding manifesto for uniting Solidarity movements across the Soviet Union. A portrait of activism in the face of falsehood and intimidation, The Power of the Powerless remains a rousing call against the allure of apathy.'Havel’s diagnosis of political pathologies has a special resonance in the age of Trump' Pankaj Mishra
Enver Hoxha
Twentieth-Century Tyrant
AvRobert C. Austin,Artan R. Hoxha
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
250 kr
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Featured in New Statesman’s Culture Preview 2026: The best non-fiction to read this yearEnver Hoxha, one of the most fanatical communist leaders of the twentieth century, ruled Albania for forty years. He was a Stalinist modernizer who sought to pull his country out of its peripheral status through rapid industrialization and diplomatic cunning. Albania transitioned from one ideological alliance to another, breaking first with Tito’s Yugoslavia, then Khrushchev’s USSR and lastly post-Maoist China. Masterfully exploiting rivalries within the communist bloc, Hoxha was able to ensure his regime’s survival and play an outsized role in the ideological clashes that riddled the communist world during the second half of the twentieth century. Meanwhile, at home he built a cult of personality and maintained his grip over power by ruthless coercion. Enver Hoxha: Twentieth-Century Tyrant paints a nuanced picture of Hoxha’s psychological, ideological and political worlds, illuminating a lesser-known story of the Cold War, and enriching our understanding of the nature of authoritarianism and dictatorship.
Gulag Archipelago
50th Anniversary Abridged Edition
AvAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
256 kr
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'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday TelegraphWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATALIA SOLZHENITSYNA vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.A thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power, this edition of The Gulag Archipelago was abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne ApplebaumTHE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III
Pinochet File
A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
AvPeter Kornbluh
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
340 kr
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The Pinochet File reveals a record of complicity with atrocity by the U.S. government. The documents, first declassified for the original edition of the book, formed the heart of the campaign to hold Gen. Pinochet accountable for murder, torture and terrorism. The New York Times wrote of the original 2003 edition, 'Thanks to Peter Kornbluh, we have the first complete, almost day-to-day and fully documented record of this sordid chapter in Cold War American History.' With this 40th anniversary edition, the record is even more complete and up-to-date.
Nazi Mind
Twelve Warnings From History
AvLaurence Rees
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
122 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I will recommend it to everyone' Alastair Campbell'World-renowned historian Laurence Rees lays out a past that is also eerily a cautionary tale for our future if we are not careful' Anthony Scaramucci'There are lots of moments when you can’t help but have a shudder through the spine . . . a really novel, interesting book.' Lewis Goodall, The News Agents podcast___________________________________How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did?Why did they willingly – often enthusiastically – oversee mass murder?How did ordinary Germans tolerate the removal of Jewish people?And how do we ensure it never happens again?Bestselling author Laurence Rees combines history and the latest psychological research to help answer the most perplexing questions surrounding the Holocaust and the Nazi state. Through the lens of ‘twelve warnings’ – from talk about ‘them’ and ‘us’ to the escalation of racism – Rees delves into the darkness to explain how and why people were capable of such horrors.Using previously unpublished testimony from former Nazis and cutting-edge psychological discoveries, THE NAZI MIND is a revelatory new way of understanding the most appalling crimes of the 20th century that highlights the warning signs we need to look out for in leaders today.___________________________________'A brilliant piece of work: learned, compelling and frankly terrifying' James Holland, Daily Telegraph'[A] superb, complex study' Christopher Hart, Daily Mail‘Enthralling and chilling . . . compulsive reading' Robert McCrum, Independent
Psychology of Totalitarianism
AvMattias Desmet
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
178 kr
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‘The most important book of 2022.’ Dr. Robert MaloneDesmet’s work on mass formation theory was brought to the world’s attention on The Joe Rogan Experience and in major alternative news outlets around the globe. Read this book to get beyond the sound bites!In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective hypnosis to take hold. By analysing the global pandemic, he identifies the phenomenon of ‘mass formation’ and illustrates how humanity is being forcibly,unconsciously led into a reality of technocratic totalitarianism, which aggressively excludes alternative views and relies on destructive groupthink, vilifying non-conformist thought as ‘dissident.’Building on Hannah Arendt’s essential work on totalitarianism, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Desmet offers a sharp critique of the cultural ‘groupthink’ that existed pre-pandemic but has steadily and inexorably advanced during the Covid crisis. He cautions against the dangers of our current societal landscape, media consumption, and reliance on manipulative technologies, offering simple solutions – both individual and collective – to prevent the willing sacrifice of our ability to think critically. The Psychology of Totalitarianism serves as an indispensable and fundamental guide to understanding this key moment in history.‘Mattias Desmet's [theory of mass formation hypnosis] is great. . . . Once I kind of started to look for it, I saw it everywhere.’ Eric Clapton
Why Fascists Fear Teachers
Public Education and the Future of Democracy
AvRandi Weingarten
Inbunden, Engelska, 1900
327 kr
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Open Society and Its Enemies
AvKarl R. Popper
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
268 kr
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A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper’s monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right. Tracing the roots of an authoritarian tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel, Popper argues that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics. In a new foreword, George Soros, who was a student of Popper, describes the “revelation” of first reading the book and how it helped inspire his philanthropic Open Society Foundations.
Dark Side of the Earth
How the Soviet Union Collapsed but Remained - A Times Book of the Year
AvMikhail Zygar
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
262 kr
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A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAROn April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown. From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - launches into space.In that moment, another countdown begins. How could it be that a single generation - just three decades - would separate the USSR's crowning achievement from the collapse of the Soviet empire?More than a history lesson, The Dark Side of the Earth is a testament to the enduring fight for truth and freedom. In pursuit of the real story, renowned Kremlin opponent Mikhail Zygar ('one of Russia's smartest and best-sourced young journalists' - New York Times) gathered witness statements of jaw-dropping candour from hundreds of key players: the last first secretaries and first presidents of the post-Soviet republics, the leaders of independence movements, Western politicians and diplomats, and Mikhail Gorbachev himself, not to mention dozens of scientists, authors, film directors, aspiring rockstars and ordinary men and women who for a time became the accidental protagonists of history. The end of the USSR set the stage for today's vengeful return. But as Gagarin looked down from the stars at his home world, was Russia's fate already written?
Why I Am Not a Liberal - Imperium Press (Studies in Reaction)
AvJonathan Bowden
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
136 kr
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438 dagar : vår berättelse om storpolitik, vänskap och tiden som diktaturens fångar
AvJohan Persson,Martin Schibbye
Pocket, Svenska, 2019
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(7)
89 kr
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»Schibbyes och Perssons bok är rent enastående.« Aftonbladet
»En riktig bladvändare.« Göteborgs-Posten
NY UPPLAGA 2019! Inklusive ett uppdaterat kapitel om Johans och Martins väg tillbaka till ett vanligt liv, deras kamp för de fängslade journalistkollegorna och hur de genom nya projekt fortsätter att rapportera från världens mest plågade platser.

JOHAN & MARTIN: »Den här boken skulle inte ha funnits om inte allt gått snett. Natten till den 28 juni satte vi allt på spel när vi i skydd av mörkret korsade gränsen mellan Somalia och Etiopien. Vi ville undersöka hur den hänsynslösa jakten på olja drabbade befolkningen i den stängda Ogadenregionen. Vi ville nå bortom flyktingberättelserna och larmrapporterna, och med våra egna ögon ta reda på sanningen.
Fem dygn senare låg vi skjutna och blodiga i öknen.
Efter en Kafkaartad rättegång dömdes vi till elva års fängelse för terroristbrott. Och vi var långt ifrån ensamma. I fängelset satt journalister och politiker som dömts på löpande band för att det inte gått i diktaturens ledband. Vår skildring av olja förvandlades till en historia om bläck. Vardagen blev en kamp för överlevnad i det ökända Kalityfängelset. På ett cementgolv bakom korrugerad plåt i en värld av dödliga sjukdomar, misshandel och förtryck skapade vi en vardag med hjälp av stenhårda rutiner. Fråntagna våra skosnören och vår yttrandefrihet försökte vi bevara det mest värdefulla man har.
Friheten att själv bestämma vem man är.«
»Allt annat än att 438 dagar blir en svensk reportageklassiker är otänkbart.« Expressen
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Tyrant
Shakespeare on Politics
AvStephen Greenblatt
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
149 kr
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.
Lukasjenkas land : makten, motståndet och hoppet
AvMartin Uggla
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
265 kr
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Belarus. Numera ser man bara den brutala diktatorn Aljaksandr Lukasjenkas ansikte framför sig när man nämner landet. Den järnnäve som fortsatt håller Belarus i ett strypgrepp sitter på en av världens brutalaste diktatorers arm.
Men kanske är just militärmakten, övervakningen, angiverisystemet och Lukasjenkas olika utspel egentligen tecken på svaghet.
Motståndet under flera olika ledare hade pågått i årtionden och sakta men säkert byggt upp modet, fått rädslan att vika en aning och till slut lyckats få ut folk på gatan inför presidentvalet 2020. En central roll spelades som flera gånger tidigare av demokratirörelsens mångårige ledargestalt, den nu fängslade Nobelpristagaren Ales Bjaljatski. 2020, när den etablerade bilden av president Lukasjenka som landsfader krackelerat och det dittills rådande samhällskontraktet revs upp och oppositionsledaren Svjatlana Tsichanouskaja lyckades samla brett stöd, gav belarusierna hopp om förändring, ett hopp som lever även nu när järnnäven är sluten kring landet.
I Lukasjenkas land lyckas Martin Uggla levandegöra hela denna kamp och även beskriva bakgrunden. Det är kunnigt, initierat och personligt. Den breda folkliga revolten kan aldrig göras ogjord. Demokratirörelsen fortsätter oförtrutet sin kamp för frihet.
Children of the Night
The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
AvPaul Kenyon
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
168 kr
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A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. 'A witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque characters' Misha Glenny 'Will leave you astonished, exhausted and curious... An unapologetic page turner' Spectator 'Essential reading for anyone interested in Romania past and present' John Simpson 'An engaging introduction to the rich history [of Romania]' New StatesmanBalanced precariously on the shifting fault line between East and West, Romania's past is one of the great untold stories of modern Europe. The country that gave us Vlad Dracula, and whose citizens consider themselves descendants of ancient Rome, has traditionally preferred the status of enigmatic outsider. But it has experienced some of the most disastrous leaderships of the last century.After a relatively benign period led by a dutiful King and his vivacious British-born Queen, the country oscillated wildly. Its interwar rulers form a gallery of bizarre characters: the corrupt and mentally unbalanced King Carol; the fascist death cult led by Corneliu Codreanu; the vain General Ion Antonescu. After 1945 power was handed to Romania's tiny communist party, under which it experienced severe repression, purges and collectivisation. Then in 1965, Nicolae Ceau?escu came to power. And thus began the strangest dictatorship of all.
Bloodlands
THE book to help you understand today’s Eastern Europe
AvTimothy Snyder
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
121 kr
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'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday TimesA powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944.In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast - an average of more than one million citizens were slaughtered every year, due to deliberate policies unrelated to combat.Here, Timothy Snyder offers a ground-breaking investigation into the motives and methods of Stalin and Hitler. Using scholarly literature and primary sources, he pays special attention to the testimony of the victims, including the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. Bloodlands is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane, authoritative and original book that forces us to re-examine one of the greatest tragedies in European history and re-think our past.'An original, wonderful and horrifying book... beautifully written and superbly researched' Anthony Beevor
Irregular Army
How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals
AvMatt Kennard
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
229 kr
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An explosive investigation into how America’s longest wars created a threat from within by flooding the US military with extremists now fueling MAGA, domestic terror, and the global far right.In Irregular Army, investigative journalist Matt Kennard delivers a searing exposé of how the US military’s recruitment crisis during the War on Terror opened the ranks to some of the most dangerous elements in American society: white supremacists, neo-Nazis, gang members, and convicted criminals. This updated edition deepens the original’s urgent warning, connecting those recruitment policies directly to the rise of MAGA extremism, Trumpism, and the global resurgence of fascism.Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with extremist veterans and military insiders, Kennard reveals how the Pentagon knowingly empowered violent ideologues in its desperation to staff the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now back on American soil―and in some cases in positions of power―many of these veterans see their mission continuing through race-war fantasies, far-right organizing, and criminal enterprises.
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World
What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere
AvMark L. Clifford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
205 kr
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A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world.For the 150 years that Hong Kong was a British colony, people, money and technology flowed freely, while Hong Kong residents enjoyed freedoms that simply did not exist in mainland China. When the territory was handed over to China in 1997, the Communist Party promised that Hong Kong would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. Now, at the halfway mark, it is clear that China has not kept its word. Universal suffrage and free elections have not been instituted and activists have been jailed en masse following the decree of a sweeping national security law by Beijing. As China continues to expand its global influence, Hong Kong serves as a chilling preview of how dissenters could be treated in regions that fall under the emerging superpower’s control.A Hong Kong resident from 1992 to 2021, Mark L. Clifford has witnessed this transformation first-hand and has unrivalled access to the full range of the city’s society, from student protestors to billionaire businessmen and senior government officials. A powerful and dramatic mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World is the definitive account of one of the most important geopolitical standoffs of our time.
Dictators
The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
AvFrank Dikotter
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
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A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year ‘Brilliant’ NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR‘Enlightening and a good read’ SPECTATOR‘Moving and perceptive’ NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.In Dictators, Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today’s world leaders?This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.
Battle for Berlin
AvJoseph Goebbels
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
362 kr
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438 dagar : vår berättelse om storpolitik, vänskap och tiden som diktaturens fångar
AvJohan Persson,Martin Schibbye
Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
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NOMINERAD TILL AUGUSTPRISET! »Schibbyes och Perssons bok är rent enastående.« Aftonbladet »Den här boken skulle inte ha funnits om inte allt gått snett. Natten till den 28 juni 2011 satte vi allt på spel när vi i skydd av mörkret korsade gränsen mellan Somalia och Etiopien. Vi ville undersöka hur den hänsynslösa jakten på olja drabbade befolkningen i den stängda och konfliktfyllda Ogadenregionen. Vi ville nå bortom flyktingberättelserna och larmrapporterna, och med våra egna ögon ta reda på sanningen. Fem dygn senare låg vi skjutna och blodiga i öknen. Men när det ursprungliga reportaget dog, tog en annan historia sin början. En berättelse om rättslöshet, propaganda och storpolitik. Efter en Kafkaartad rättegång dömdes vi till elva års fängelse för terroristbrott. Och vi var långt ifrån ensamma. I fängelset satt journalister och politiker som dömts på löpande band för att det inte gått i diktaturens ledband. Vår skildring av olja förvandlades till en historia om bläck. Vardagen blev en kamp för överlevnad i det ökända Kalityfängelset. På ett cementgolv bakom korrugerad plåt - i en värld av dödliga sjukdomar, misshandel och förtryck - skapade vi en vardag med hjälp av stenhårda rutiner. Fråntagna våra skosnören och vår yttrandefrihet försökte vi bevara det mest värdefulla man har: friheten att själv bestämma vem man är. Här är vår berättelse om 438 dagars helvete.«
How Fascism Works
AvJason Stanley
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
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Psychology of Totalitarianism
AvMattias Desmet
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(10)
286 kr
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‘The most important book of 2022.’ Dr. Robert MaloneDesmet’s work on mass formation theory was brought to the world’s attention on The Joe Rogan Experience and in major alternative news outlets around the globe. Read this book to get beyond the sound bites!In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective hypnosis to take hold. By analysing the global pandemic, he identifies the phenomenon of ‘mass formation’ and illustrates how humanity is being forcibly,unconsciously led into a reality of technocratic totalitarianism, which aggressively excludes alternative views and relies on destructive groupthink, vilifying non-conformist thought as ‘dissident.’Building on Hannah Arendt’s essential work on totalitarianism, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Desmet offers a sharp critique of the cultural ‘groupthink’ that existed pre-pandemic but has steadily and inexorably advanced during the Covid crisis. He cautions against the dangers of our current societal landscape, media consumption, and reliance on manipulative technologies, offering simple solutions – both individual and collective – to prevent the willing sacrifice of our ability to think critically. The Psychology of Totalitarianism serves as an indispensable and fundamental guide to understanding this key moment in history.‘Mattias Desmet's [theory of mass formation hypnosis] is great. . . . Once I kind of started to look for it, I saw it everywhere.’ Eric Clapton

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