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Revolutionary monsters : five men who turned liberation into tyranny / Donald T. Critchlow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Critchlow, Donald T., 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutionaries--History--20th century.
- Revolutionaries.
- Dictators--History--20th century.
- Dictators.
- Heads of state--History--20th century.
- Heads of state.
- History, Modern--20th century.
- History, Modern.
- Revolutionaries--Psychology.
- Heads of state--Psychology.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 206 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C : Regnery History, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Revolutionary Monsters presents a collective biography of five modern day revolutionaries who came into power calling for the liberation of the people only to end up killing millions of people in the name of revolution: Lenin (Russia), Mao (China), Castro (Cuba), Mugabe (Zimbabwe), and Khomeini (Iran). Revolutionary Monsters explores basic questions about the revolutionary personality, and examines how these revolutionaries came to envision themselves as prophets of a new age"--Inside jacket.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Lenin: Monster as Dictator
- ch. 2 Mao: Revolutionary Destroyer
- ch. 3 Castro: Megalomania Empowered
- ch. 4 Robert Mugabe: Monster of Zimbabwe
- ch. 5 Khomeini: God and the State.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781684511242
- 1684511240
- OCLC:
- 1264399054
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