LEADER 03482nam 2200469 450 001 9910774749303321 005 20220617120428.0 010 $a1-00-310050-3 010 $a1-003-10050-3 010 $a1-000-46755-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000012025567 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6724391 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6724391 035 $a(OCoLC)1272996525 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012025567 100 $a20220617d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDictators and autocrats $esecuring power across global politics /$fKlaus Larres 210 1$aOxon, UK ;$aNew York, NY :$cRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a0-367-60786-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: dictators and autocrats: a global phenomenon -- Abstracts -- Part I The notorious three -- 1 Joseph Stalin: autocrat par excellence (1878-1953) -- 2 Adolf Hitler: from democracy to dictatorship (1889-1945) -- 3 Mao Zedong: communist Party dictatorship (1893-1976) -- Part II Pathbreaking autocrats of the twentieth century -- 4 Fidel Castro: from grassroots dictatorship to Communist autocracy (1926-2016) -- 5 Augusto Pinochet: the emergence of one-man rule in Chile (1915-2006) -- 6 Robert Mugabe: ruthless authoritarian who preferred democratic clothing (1924-2019) -- 7 Joseph Kabila: the "Raďs" of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1971) -- 8 Hugo Chavez: was he an autocrat? (1954-2013) -- 9 Lee Kuan Yew: autocracy, elections, and capitalism (1923-2015) -- Part III Twenty-first-century autocrats: the major powers -- 10 Vladimir Putin: Russia's neo-patrimonial façade democracy (born 1952) -- 11 Xi Jinping: the rise of an authoritarian leader (born 1953) -- 12 Narendra Modi: elected authoritarian (born 1950) -- 13 Donald J. Trump: the authoritarian style in American politics (born 1946) -- Part IV Twenty-first-century autocrats: other influential autocrats -- 14 Ali Hosseini Khamenei: routinizing revolution in Iran (born 1939) -- 15 The Assad Dynasty: quo vadis Damascus? (Hafiz: 1930-2000 -- Bashar: born 1965) -- 16 Kim Jong Un: rise to power and leadership style (born 1984) -- 17 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: the one and only Egyptian dictator (born 1954) -- 18 Prayuth Chan-o-Cha: from the barracks to the ballot box (born 1954) -- 19 Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (a.k.a. "MBS"): king in all but name (born 1985) -- 20 Viktor Orbán and János Kádár: a post-Communist and a Communist autocrat in Hungary. A comparative analysis (Kádár: 1912-1989. 327 $aOrbán: born 1963) -- 21 Recep Tayyip Erdo?an: from "illiberal democracy" to electoral authoritarianism (born 1953) -- 22 Rodrigo Duterte: macho populism and authoritarian practice (born 1945) -- 23 Jair Bolsonaro: beyond the pale, above the fray (born 1955) -- Index. 606 $aDictators$xHistory 606 $aAuthoritarianism$xHistory 615 0$aDictators$xHistory. 615 0$aAuthoritarianism$xHistory. 676 $a321.9 700 $aLarres$b Klaus$0905974 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910774749303321 996 $aDictators and autocrats$93662605 997 $aUNINA