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How to Be a Dictator - The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter
32.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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
Mao's Great Famine - The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958-62 by Frank Dikötter
27.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of live ...Show more
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-76 by Frank Dikötter
29.99 NZD
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
Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikötter
22.99 NZD
Category: History
"'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning ...Show more
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